Mike Rowe brought Victor Davis Hanson onto his podcast for an interview to discuss Class Warfare as contrast against the 2024 election stakes. The impetus for the interview was an article written by VDH a few months ago about the shift in the American electorate – SEE HERE.

Within the interview VDH walks through a summary of how a modern muscular tech industry replaced Mainstreet on the financial side of financial economics and American wealth.  Essentially, how a small group of tech companies replaced the blue chip titans and industrialists on the global wealth scale.

As 8 billion people started being able to purchase the goods and services of a small American group of entrepreneurs, all focused heavily inside the tech and finance sector, the people who owned wealth shifted dramatically.  Decades later, against the backdrop of globalism, the issue surfaces as the industrialists (Main Street corps) offshored their manufacturing, while the tech industrialists (Muscular Wall Street) started to be the wealthiest people in the USA as a result of selling their tech products to the world.

Within the discussion, the academically disposed VDH points out empirical data that bolsters his theories and analysis.  Rowe is in general agreement as they both discuss the granular consequences.  However, there is one fascinating part (prompted below) where VDH accurately identifies conservative economic hero Milton Friedman as one of the early globalist villains.

VDH is correct when he says that Friedman was a rabid open borders advocate, who had no issue with lowered wages for U.S. workers and embraced the global system of manufacturing which led to a destroyed U.S industrial base creating the Rust Belt.  Few people on the conservative side of politics will ever admit how Milton Friedman was the original Bush-class economist.  It’s good to see VDH set the record straight.  WATCH:

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Keep in mind, Milton Friedman was vociferously against tariffs of any kind.  Friedman believed once the entire world was connected, all prices and economies would equalize.  The pain felt within the American economy was simply something that had to be endured until American wealth was distributed and the entire world was balanced.

What follows below was my review of what would happen with Donald Trump policies put into place.  This is very deep and in the weeds. This was originally written in December of 2016.

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If there is one economic dynamic we have talked about on these pages more than the rest, its inflation.  {Background}

The root causes of inflation are two-fold, monetary policy and energy policy.  However, when combined they represent a predictable outcome.  Specifically predictable, when it comes to highly consumable goods that require a lot of industrial effort, labor, distribution and warehousing processes.  Thus, food inflation was/is worst.

Kamala Harris and her boss did this to millions of Americans

If I was in charge of the RNC research, or the Trump campaign, this would be my new ad pic.twitter.com/WJ4QCbuJmm

— A🪓E (@RealDealAxelrod) September 21, 2024

Within all of the sectors most vulnerable to upward price pressure as a result of policy (monetary and energy), the main industry impacted by immediate and severe inflation is food, farming and agriculture.  Food, a highly consumable product with a thin supply chain, sees the results of inflation first and fastest.  Durable good inflation lags behind high-velocity consumable goods.

It was with this understanding CTH first warned in 2020 of what would happen coming out of the COVID Pandemic economic crisis.  We predicted and watched in 2020 as one-third of all food supplies were destroyed because 50% of the food supply chain (restaurants, cafeterias, schools, food trucks, essentially food away from home) was shuttered.

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In an effort to keep the Daily Open Thread a little more open topic we are going to start a new daily thread for “Presidential Politics”. Please use this thread to post anything relating to the JoeBama Administration and Presidency.

“This is no small thing, to restore a republic after it has fallen into corruption. I have studied history for years and I cannot recall it ever happening. It may be that our task is impossible. Yet, if we do not try then how will we know it can’t be done? And if we do not try, it most certainly won’t be done. The Founders’ Republic, and the larger war for western civilization, will be lost.”

“But I tell you this: We will not go gently into that bloody collectivist good night. Indeed, we will make with our defiance such a sound as ALL history from that day forward will be forced to note, even if they despise us in the writing of it.”

~ Mike Vanderboegh

This thread will refresh daily and appear above the Open Discussion Thread.

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Our Father, who art in heaven, hallowed be thy Name. Thy kingdom come. THY WILL BE DONE, on earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread. And forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those who trespass against us. And lead us not into temptation, but DELIVER US FROM EVIL.

For Thine is the kingdom and the power and the glory, forever and ever. Amen †

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Today, President Donald Trump will head to Wilmington, North Carolina, for a MAGA rally in the Tarheel state.

The Obama team feel confident in their ability to manipulate Michigan and Wisconsin.  However, they also understand that if Kamala Harris loses Pennsylvania, their only chance at electoral victory would be to win North Carolina and Georgia as an offset.  The tenuously slipping Pennsylvania race is why Brian Fallon and the Chicago Marxists are focusing an alternate ‘southern strategy’ approach.

The recent position of the Teamsters has triggered anxiety in the Obama team’s Michigan and Wisconsin confidence. [SEE HERE]  To counter the intent of Team Harris in NC and GA, President Trump is campaigning in key areas to maintain enthusiastic support.  President Trump is expected to speak in Wilmington, North Carolina at 2:00pm ET.  Livestream Links Below:

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

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Andrew Breitbart was well known in the grassroots Tea Party movement for his ability to turn Alinsky psychological weapons against those who deployed them. In fact, the gift that Breitbart carried was not Andrew’s snarky counter approach toward the Obama teams tactics, but rather his ability to understand the purpose of their approach. This naturally gifted insight always made Andrew a threat.

Well before the Obama Marxists fully activated their weaponized government, Breitbart saw the Alinsky “methods” for what they were, the same tactics deployed by professional abusers. He knew we were headed into an era where “We the People” were in an abusive relationship with government.

In essence, Andrew Breitbart understood that if this tribe of Chicago Marxists were successful in the constructs of the government they envisioned, they would manipulate American politics in much the same manner that an abuser would intimidate, threaten and eventually control their victims. Better yet, Breitbart inherently knew how to defeat them and their predictable gaslighting.

The abuser punches you in the face, intending total control and manifest domination. If you stand up against the abuse, your injuries are then positioned as your fault. When we hit back, our abuser immediately takes the victim role; and with the media spectators on the side of the abuser, the victim never stands a chance. Wash, rinse and repeat.

Breitbart took his counter-offensive skills into the field and when the community activists surfaced to promote their abusive agenda, Andrew immediately began calling attention to their intent. He used their own methods against them, ridiculing them, making them live up to their own message, making them uncomfortably small, speaking big truth to their lies in a very matter-of-fact deconstruction of their psychological nonsense. He was incredibly effective.

What we have witnessed in the past 18 years is exactly this rise of Chicago Marxists into positions of power. They spread throughout government embedding into every institution thanks to the open doors provided by Barack Obama, Eric Holder and a host of like-minded fellow travelers.

We are now fully emersed in an abusive relationship with the system of government institutions demanding and enforcing victim compliance. When an individual member of the people rise in opposition, the weaponized agencies of government use their power to target them quickly. The institutions now perpetuate the abusive process. Victims start feeling entirely powerless against the full weight of the abusers.

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In an effort to keep the Daily Open Thread a little more open topic we are going to start a new daily thread for “Presidential Politics”. Please use this thread to post anything relating to the JoeBama Administration and Presidency.

“This is no small thing, to restore a republic after it has fallen into corruption. I have studied history for years and I cannot recall it ever happening. It may be that our task is impossible. Yet, if we do not try then how will we know it can’t be done? And if we do not try, it most certainly won’t be done. The Founders’ Republic, and the larger war for western civilization, will be lost.”

“But I tell you this: We will not go gently into that bloody collectivist good night. Indeed, we will make with our defiance such a sound as ALL history from that day forward will be forced to note, even if they despise us in the writing of it.”

~ Mike Vanderboegh

This thread will refresh daily and appear above the Open Discussion Thread.

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Our Father, who art in heaven, hallowed be thy Name. Thy kingdom come. THY WILL BE DONE, on earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread. And forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those who trespass against us. And lead us not into temptation, but DELIVER US FROM EVIL.

For Thine is the kingdom and the power and the glory, forever and ever. Amen †

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There comes a moment in the performance of the Marionette when the strings become visible.  Once you see those strings, you can never return to that moment in the performance when you did not see them.

In the bigger picture challenge for Brian Fallon, this visibility always represents a risk.  Yes, people can see the strings and it doesn’t matter who tries to hide them, even Oprah Winfrey.

🚨🔥 DANG ! She said Kamala is what ?

Omg she roasted her like thanksgiving turkey and Ham. This made my day! 😂 pic.twitter.com/HF0HjUL1wK

— Terrence K. Williams (@w_terrence) September 20, 2024

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Secret Service Acting Director Ronald Rowe held a press conference today outlining the results of an investigative review of USSS failures.  A five-page summary of the report was released. {SEE HERE} According to Director Rowe, a full report on the findings of the investigation will soon be released.

The press briefing was Director Rowe giving details about the results of the investigation in advance of the report being published.  WATCH:

[5-PAGE Summary Report HERE]

WASHINGTON DC – […] Acting Secret Service Director Ronald Rowe said in a press conference that an unspecified number of agency personnel will face repercussions for the lapses that left one person dead and the former president and two others injured, though he declined to detail the possible punishments.

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