Dow go down – but now the Futures are up. Its a bit volatile out there…and I do think the big banks managed to manipulate us out of a major slide today. A thousand points isn’t anything to sneeze at but there were multiple reports of trading house websites crashing…and so preventing a lot of people from dumping their stocks, especially early on. The bottom line is that we’re in the midst of a debt-fueled bubble. Will it pop? Not if the central banks around the world have anything to say (and they have a lot to say). For the USA it is a matter of just keeping it afloat until November 5th – after that, even if inflation spikes again, they don’t care. Either Harris will have won or Trump would have – if its Harris they’ll blame anything but her. If its Trump they’ll blame him for it all. If Harris they’ll count on the worst of it being over far enough in front of 2028…if Trump, they’ll exacerbate it and hope it stays bad all through 2028.
But it still might pop – and in a 2008 manner. If that happens in the next 60 days, Trump will win in a landslide. That is what will keep the Fed and others massaging the system furiously. Do keep in mind that the very thought of Trump being sworn in terrifies our entire Ruling Class. They will stop at nothing to prevent such a thing from happen. I do hope that Trump’s security team has heads on a swivel. But outside a repeat of Butler, everything else is also on the table – and if you think the MSM has been brazenly lying to this point, you ain’t seen nothing yet.
They are going to try to lie Harris into office. In 2020 they at least had Covid and related problems…here in 2024, it is all bad for the incumbent party. They’ve got nothing to work with except to lie, lie and then lie some more. Harris won’t just be coddled – she’ll be given an endless tongue bath. The whole point of it, though, isn’t to increase her support – they really can’t. She seems to have a hard ceiling and Trump continues to gain in personal popularity. What they are trying to do is convince Republican-leaners to stay home. To figure Trump has no chance and so don’t bother. Harris needs a low turnout election. Very low. Like an election of complete indifference. If you take a look at the polls showing her “surging” they are predicated upon a D+5 or more environment…and not just heavily D, but low turnout so that the D voters make up 42 or 43 percent of the electorate. In other words, an electorate where a huge swath of Presidential-year independent (but GOP leaning) voters stay home. Can they make this happen? We’re going to find out – if they do, they win. And win forever.
Trump’s task is to take the anger at current conditions and channel it into a message of change – if you look at his tag line it isn’t just “make America great again”…it is also make America safe, powerful, wealthy, etc again. This is a line of talk designed to get those GOP leaning independents to the polls. This is why, at times, you’ll see some odd moves in Trump’s messaging…he’s not speaking all the time to you and me, the core GOP electorate. He knows we’re going to be there and for him…but he needs 5 million people who only vote when angry. Angry with crime, prices, immigration…that sort of thing…and willing to come out and give Trump a shot at fixing it.
I remain serene – certain that Trump will win. The party that had to swap out its candidate with a sleazy backstab isn’t on the path to victory. If Harris was in any way good, the DNC would have dumped Pudding Brain late last year and rigged the primaries for her, not Biden. She’s no good. She isn’t “brat”…she’s nearly 60. Like me. She’s old and she represents a dying past…and a dying Ruling Class. Trump may be older in years, but he represents a bright, youthful future for America…a land of hope and dreams…not fussing over pronouns and worried about if a person meets certain gender and demographic requirements.
This is our times, my friends. Finally and at last, America can break free of the Left. Not all at once – what was a century in the making will take time to undo. But we can shatter the chains. We can reclaim freedom – and sanity. I do believe that Trump has tapped into that sensation that nothing is working but that it can be fixed, if the cretins represented by Harris are turned out of office.
They can’t stop us. Oh, they’re going to try – but we are the stronger side. The decent side. The intelligent side. The hard working side. Their collection of grifters, charlatans and blue haired weirdos doesn’t stand a chance against us. We’re going to fight and we’re going to win.
UPDATE: Word is she picked Walz. So, the candidate who bailed out BLM has picked the guy who let BLM burn Minneapolis. This is the first Judenfrei major party ticket. FFS the Democrats are going to get wiped out.
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Twitchy has some fun contributions to how people think Kamala might explain the stock market. One example:
LOL. I almost feel sorry for her …. almost being the key word lol
Buzzfeed finally managed to come up with some Harris “successes”. Yes, this pathetic list is an embarrassment for Harris and Buzzfeed, too, but you gotta play the cards you’re dealt and with Harris that’s a partial deck for Go Fish.
Many aren’t familiar with her significant achievements while serving as vice president. So, here are a quick 11 things she’s accomplished and had a hand in since becoming the first female vice president
(“had a hand in”….kind of like “overseeing” or “advocating” or “helping”…)
This is, apparently, all a fawning Agenda Media outlet could come up with to tell us how much she has accomplished in four years as vice president—and one of these stunning achievements was while she was the First Indian Senator, when she co-sponsored a bill.
This reads like one of those resumes put together by someone with no real experience or accomplishment, so it’s padded with “oversees” and “advocates for” and “led” but without any real detail about what work was done and how well it was done and what it accomplished.
Kamala defends herself today against accusations that she was the “Border Czar” by saying she was in charge of “root causes.” But her most visible effort on addressing “root causes” – a trip to Central America – was viewed as a failure by the Biden White House.
The “root causes” trip was such a failure that senior Biden White House aides conceded privately that Harris had “fallen short” and the problem was not Harris’s staff but the Vice President herself.
Contrary to media reporting when the “Border Czar” flap re-emerged, Kamala’s entire handling of her immigration portfolio was a failure. So much so, Biden’s own White House Chief of Staff, Ron Klain, told Kamala to her face that she “erred” by not working harder on immigration.
Even Joe Biden got frustrated with the dysfunction of Kamala Harris and the Vice President’s operation, despite knowing full well when he chose her that she was not as qualified or competent as other potential picks.
While it’s entertaining to make fun of Kamala’s weird “word salad” speech style, opposition to her is not on the basis of personality—it’s her competence, and her rabidly Leftist political belief system.
“She seems to have a hard ceiling and Trump continues to gain in personal popularity.”
Curious where you see Trump gaining in personal popularity. If anything I would say he is the one with a hard ceiling while Harris seems to be expanding her coalition daily. There is even a Republican for Harris group that includes former members of Trump’s administration.
Back to whining about Trump and “popularity” I see—which is, after all, your only frame of reference for anything you think is “politics”—-and ignoring the basics of which model of government you believe is best for the country.
As you support the system I, and so many others, believe is the worst blueprint for governance, you might try addressing your dedication to it. Sorry—your dedication to the people who represent it, as your “politics” never go deeper than that superficial layer of who is more “popular”. You don’t DO real politics, just skitter around on the TMZ level.
You do know you need to win more votes to win an election right? It helps to be popular. Yours is a silly comment. Also, in 2016 Donald Trump parlayed his popularity from the Apprentice to the white house. But for that TV show he would never have been president.
What you clearly do not know is that thinking people base “popularity” on objective criteria such as core political philosophy and accomplishment. This makes “popularity” an evaluation of competence as well as allegiance to a chosen political system. “System”, not “party”. “Party” is an identity—-“system” is a structure.
You seem to think that your sweeping statement that the only reason Trump was elected is because he had a popular TV show would be relevant even if it were true. That is a silly comment, because it totally ignores the facts on the ground—-his record as an accomplished businessman and all that means regarding knowledge of the private sector, negotiating ability and so on, his clear and appealing ideas for correcting the course of the country, and of course there was Clinton Fatigue.
Trump was famous, but not as famous as Hillary Clinton. Trump was famous for what he did, over several decades. Clinton was famous for who she married. Naturally to people like you there is no difference. The Apprentice did less to add to his fame than it did to illustrate his business acumen. Write it off as mere fanboi adulation for a famous person, or accept it as the result of a brilliant way to showcase his business skills in a non-political venue as a springboard to becoming a political entity asking people to vote for him based in part on what they learned about his competence in business from watching his show.
Keep trying to conflate this with the kind of superficial “popularity” some people get merely by representing their party, or being the recipients of regular tongue baths from lapdog Agenda Media, fawning articles in Vanity Fair and Rolling Stone, etc.
What I am talking about is superficial “popularity” based solely on personality, and/or propaganda, regardless of core political ideology or, as in the case of Kamala Harris, lack of accomplishment. It is blind allegiance not to a structure of government but to the identity of a party.
But you just keep on defending Identity Politics, and keep hoping it blinds enough people to the ugly reality of Leftist governance it is promoted to camouflage.
It helps to be popular
Another contribution from Captain Obvious.
The thing is, to the Left that is all that matters.
If Kamala Harris were to explain why it helps to be popular:
It helps to be popular, because to be popular one has to be liked, which is the essence of popularity. One cannot be popular without being liked and being popular is the key to popularity which is important because you can’t win a popularity contest if you are not popular so you should work very hard to make people think others really like you, which is why you are popular.”
But for that TV show he would never have been president.
We all just need to marinate in this comment for a bit because it exposes the mindset of our modern day, ignorant left wing activists. To them, politics is all about their feelz now, their celebrities, and of course their identities. You never hear Democrats talk about policies anymore, and you definitely don’t hear them talk about the results thereof, because those are abysmal.
Personally, I never watched the Apprentice, and was not a Trump supporter early in 2016. But of course I voted for him over Hillary, and what Trump accomplished through his policies from 2016-2019, despite the entire government apparatus being against him, was impressive, and I want to put him back in the White House to do the same.
MAGA votes for policies, Democrats vote for people, just like the Banana Republics they hope to become.
Like you, I was not a Trump fan back then, and never watched The Apprentice. But looking back on it, I am very impressed by the ability of Trump to get a network to pay him to present his business skills to the American public every week for 15 years. I don’t know if that was part of a “long game” of Trump’s or if it just worked out that way, but the platform of knowledge about his business acumen was certainly helpful when he declared that he was running for the presidency.
There are different kinds of “popularity”. There is the kind that Trump has, which is based on admiration for his accomplishments and confidence that if given a chance he will continue to accomplish the things we find important to the future of the nation, and then there is what I call “Paris Hilton/Kim Kardashian” popularity. I still don’t know what the Kardashians have ever done to become “popular” though Kim maintains it, when it starts to flag, with nude or nearly nude photos, but I remember the clamber up the popularity ladder by Paris Hilton, starting with her showing up at events where she knew there would be photographers, wearing no underwear and flashing her hoo-haw. That got her a lot of “coverage” so to speak, and got her name out there. Then she got a sex tape released, and suddenly she was FAMOUS.
The Lefties who post here seem quite enthralled by the level of “popularity” much more analogous to that of Paris Hilton and Kim Kardashian than to that of Donald Trump. And it appears that they probably don’t even know the difference.
Policy wonks I see. You guy stoked for the across the board 10% tariffs? Talk about inflationary.
Go ahead. Talk about inflation. You might even wander, inadvertently no doubt, out of the fetid swamp of personality cults into an actual thought process. Even copying and pasting someone else’s thoughts would be a step in the right direction if it opened up a door out of Identity Politics.
You say “policy wonks” as if that is a pejorative. But yes, some of us ARE about policy, rather than personality.
Digging down a layer, there is “policy” meaning the core ideology of a political model and then there is “policy” meaning specific goals and agendas. Ideally, the second is a natural evolution of the first. I can give you examples of this in both political models, if you like. You know I can. You know I can type fast.
And this understanding, and commitment to it, is essential to the establishment and retention of effective governance. Those who skitter on the surface of what they are told is “politics”, being influenced by other elements such as personality, mere party identity or what they are told by others, are entitled to be silly and superficial, but not to be admired or respected for it.
Lots of bloviating on your part Amazona, but you didn’t answer my question. Do you agree with Trump’s stated policy that he will apply a 10% tariff across the board? Also, do you think his policy of another corporate tax cut will spur economic growth? His previous cut did not provide the 3% growth he promised.
No, that was not your question. You asked if “you guy” was “stoked” about a proposed tariff. I responded in quite some detail, though not in a direct response to you, my opinion on the subject of tariffs. Unlike you and your kind I don’t need to have an emotional response (stoked) to a proposed policy, but merely do my best to analyze it objectively and arrive at a rational conclusion based on the actual information I have to work with.
I do believe that corporate tax reductions will spur growth. As anyone with a brain knows, corporations do not pay taxes, they merely collect taxes from their clients and customers as a cost of doing business and pass them on to the government. But reducing that tax burden does allow businesses to operate more freely, mostly by encouraging locked-up capital to be brought out and applied to the development of the businesses. I don’t accept your analysis of the effects of the last “corporate tax cut” nor do I think it is a valid metric.
Why do you feel entitled to quiz us here? What is your goal? And have you considered simply posing questions without adding insults? If you are so threatened by words that you have to come up with some silly insult, perhaps you should just avoid them altogether and find a simple-minded place where you are mor at home.
Of course, you trolls just hit and run because your goal is not discourse or the exchange of ideas but just snipe, attack and move on.
Oops on the typo. Thanks for the response on the the tax cut. Why didn’t the previous cut spur the growth he claimed it would? Also, again no response on the tariffs. You can say it is bad policy no one will shame you.
Oh, get over yourself. That was a lengthy response on tariffs and you have no authority to demand that anyone play your silly gotcha games. It’s never worked before, under any other name, and it won’t work now.
I missed your previous response on tariffs not sure where it is. I assume you agree with Trump that they are good policy. Okay
I am so sorry that you lack the ability to understand the difference between ideology and issues. Or that you do but are just too emotionally invested in issues to care. Or that you are so aware of the pitfalls of admitting and discussing your ideology that you have to try to divert any discussion to something else. I base my political decisions on actual POLITICS. That is, on my perspective of the best blueprint for governing the nation. If I were to base it on the emotion-based ISSUES paradigm I would be bouncing all over the place looking for PEOPLE I could agree with on how I FEEL about things. That is no way to choose a government or its leaders.
On the Issue of 10% tariffs across the board, can answer my question? Do you think they are a good policy? Yes or No?
I can’t recall EVER having a discussion here about tariffs in the 20 years I’ve been coming here, but it seems like a REALLY important issue for you. Why is that?
This was meant for Amazona. She was talking about how the left is all feelings and the right is all policy. I asked her what she thought of Trump’s plan to apply a 10% tariff across the board on all foreign goods. She said she answered somewhere but I couldn’t find it. I asked her for a quick response. She has not given me one and seems indignant that I asked for one.
Oh, stop it. You and your silly efforts to inject emotion and insults into everything are quite tiring. Only someone like you could translate me ignoring you into me being “indignant”. More like indifferent.
The reason I refuse to discuss issues with people like you is because all you want to do is set up a platform for endless bickering. In this case for example you start with a lie—-there is no “plan”. I couldn’t opine on a general concept of possible future actions without having a lot more details than “10% tariff across the board on all foreign goods” and certainly from a source more credible than you. If I were to discuss tariffs it would be with someone with a genuine interest in the subject who is willing and able to exchange ideas and information and not just generate some silly gotchas and bickering to meet some personal emotional need. And I do not make political decisions based on issues.
It’s an unserious question from an unserious quibbler with no authority to demand an answer.
BTW, herkimer, I did not respond to “Trump’s plan” but to the concept of tariffs in general. Not my fault if you can’t navigate the site well enough to find it.
Oh, he’s just playing that silly game they play, trying to goad someone here into getting into a fake discussion that is really only a chance to bicker. “So, if you believe this you must believe that.” “So, if you think this then you must think that.” “So what you’re really saying is……”
Here’s a perfect example: He quotes me as saying “the left is all feelings and the right is all policy” It was a little statement he could latch onto, that word “all”, to try to create a whole diatribe. So he went to his little cheat sheet and learned that Trump’s views on tariffs are controversial (BTW, a favorite Leftist word—poor Diane Sawyer used to get Klingon-deep furrows in her brow every time she lowered her voice and murmured ominously that something conservative was controversial) so figured this would be a good seed to generate a whole bickerfest. He must have tried to get me into a discussion about Trump’s alleged comment about a hypothetical plan he might propose at an unnamed time in an undefined future at least ten times. It’s all “tariffs tariffs tariffs”. He is absolutely convinced that this topic has so many avenues to score so many points that he simply cannot let go of it. He has tried everything. He has insulted me, he has goaded me, he has taunted me, and really all he has done is telegraph his M.O. He thinks he can dig in on semantics (all policy, only policy, etc.), on politics, on anything that might offer a little traction in his tiny obsessed mind to sucking me into a pretense of an actual discussion with him. so he can impress himself with tricky little verbal maneuvers.
I don’t know what makes disturbed people like this tick. What’s more, I don’t care. He might be like casper, just desperate to have someone pay attention to him, but it’s more likely that he is one of those creepy losers who used to pull the wings off of flies and has “graduated” to being an impotent keyboard warrior frantically trying to set strangers up so he can feel that he has shot them down.
Uh, DUH, herky, that is an issue. I don’t do issues. I don’t know why you seem to have such a problem with this. I’ve gone through this several times now.
Love the optimism Mark, and I tend to agree. Shall we say Trump represents Hope and Change?? Kamala is the dumbest, least informed candidate for any office that I can ever remember, and it’s only a matter of time when that fact becomes undeniable. They can only hide her for so long, and eventually she will have to answer tough questions, which she is simply incapable of. If she does debate Trump, and I am not sure she will, she will be eviscerated, and her support will melt.
However, the coronation of Kamala, definitely exposes the Deep State and their iron clad control of the country. They love Kamala because she will do anything they say, just like Biden, and she checks more identity boxes. Think about this – Venezuela is on fire because of the elections America insisted on, and not one word from the POTUS. Iran is threatening to attack Israel and Israeli civilians, and not one word from the POTUS. The Dow dropped by more than 2% and unemployment spiked on fears of a recession, and not one word from the POTUS. Who is running the country? It’s definitely not the POTUS.
And Kamala’s choice of VP, MN Gov Walz, is another nail in their 2024 electoral coffin. An old radical white guy on par with Bernie Sanders. This could be an easy win.
They tried this in 2017, with their #RESIST movement—which was, in fact, an effort at a bloodless insurrection, as members of Congress and the military openly declared, and acted upon, their intent to interfere with and thwart every effort of the newly elected president to do the job he was elected to do.
The fury of the Left at Trump’s ability to accomplish so much even with the attempted sabotage of his presidency from within, has evidently driven them to even greater panic about losing their hold on power, to the extent of threatening to prevent a newly-elected Trump from taking office.
Plan A: Steal election
Plan B: If that fails, prevent newly elected president from taking office
Having seen other banana republics in similar turmoil, as the Left fights to gain and retain power, we have a pretty good idea of what Plan C would look like.
Earlier I posted quotations from Jamie Raskin about how Dems can (will?) deal with a Trump victory: Raskin says Congress will have to tell Trump on January 6th, 2025 that he’s “disqualified” and that it’ll put the country on a civil war footing.
He’s advertising plans to steal the election right out in the open.
Raskin tosses out phrases like “civil war” to try to create the image of a bloody conflict, to scare people. But there is a different version of what could be called a “civil war”. If we wanted to be snarky (what??? US???) we could even call it #RESIST 2025.
From Zero Hedge: emphasis mine
Kamala is a line in the sand. If she can be installed in the presidency, then there is no reason to keep holding elections; the DNC and its media apparatchiks can simply make or break the presidency with a snap of the fingers. In this scenario, there is no longer any reason for patriotic Americans to serve or support the regime in DC. They must withdraw their consent and search for new guards for their future security.
The 2024 Trump campaign sent the liberal hivemind into fits of hysteria. There is nothing these people wouldn’t do in order to keep Trump and his centrist policies of preserving our sovereignty and national renewal out of the White House. This is a deeply unstable time in American life.
Because we have to remember, we are governed by our consent.
Remember in 2008 when the housing crash was in full swing and Bush was pressured to bail out the banks on the advice of Deep State hack Hank Paulson? This of course followed a couple years of Dem. Barney Frank loosening lending standards allowing anyone, and I mean anyone to go buy a home. Then when the economy started to rock in 2007 and those mortgages began to default, leading to the crash, and the bailout, they all blamed Bush.
Fast forward to 2024. On X, all the libs are citing 2020 as the year that defined the Trump presidency. The deficit spending, the unemployment, the riots, the empty grocery shelves, etc. all were because of Trump’s policies. Well we all know what happened in 2020, the Deep State acted up again by unleashing a bio weapon, shutting down businesses, and passing more deficit spending bills … and yet they blame Trump. These are the depths to which the Deep State is prepared to go to, to hold onto power, and that should worry everyone …
It was so much worse than just “loosening standards”. It was lawfare in action, as activists would send minority-class potential home buyers in to apply for loans for which they were patently unqualified—little to no income, bad credit histories, etc. When they were turned down for mortgages the activists then filed federal discrimination charges against the lenders, effectively freezing most of their activities until these charges had been adjudicated. The lenders could still do business, at exactly the level and in the same way they had been, but could not do things like open new branches or go beyond the boundaries of their business at the time they were charged, and it took years for any of these bogus charges to ever reach a court. If they ever did. The goal was to force lenders to lend money to people who could not pay it back, not to enforce discrimination laws.
At the same time, the officers of these lending institutions had howling mobs of activists outside their homes, intimidating and harassing them and their families and calling them names including “racist”. They often appeared to be on the verge of violence and there were videos of some pounding on the doors of these private residences, terrifying the families.
Out of self defense the lending community came up with loans for which almost anyone could qualify, as they had extremely low interest rates, but those low rates would escalate after a period of time, and nearly anyone would be accepted just to appease the mobs. We saw copies of loan applications showing no employment, and sometimes not even fully filled out. At that time home values were rising and the expectations/hopes were that the new home owners, after a few years of making payments, would qualify for refinancing or paying the higher interest rates, or at least sell the houses at a profit.
But what happened was that many could not pay even the low-rate mortgages and defaulted, dumping a lot of houses on the market. And then when the rates went up, as the original finance papers said they would, even more people defaulted, And with this glut of houses the values of houses dropped, meaning that the market for new houses tanked as so many houses were available at cut-rate prices, nearly destroying the building industry, and it became nearly impossible to sell a house for anything near its loan balance.
So the entire thing was built on the original manipulation of the housing/lending market far in excess of merely “loosening lending standards” because it took the filing of federal discrimination lawsuits and the harassment of lending officials and their families to make the adjustable-rate mortgage the only option for lenders to escape.
The Left always plays the long game, and we need to learn to look ahead at the inevitable results of anything they try to see what they hope to eventually accomplish. In this case, it was the defeat of a Republican president and feeding the propaganda mill regarding alleged racism and the evils of capitalism.
Note that these all address specific actions or events involving Tim Walz, none of which mention his race or his personality or his appearance. Just references to his political ideology and performance as governor
Minneapolis was once a thriving metropolis. Seriously upscale Dept Stores and glamorous condos. Trump begged Walz for 3 days to let the National Guard come in during the Floyd riots. Coming to a city near you:
The fact that the Democrat Party has selected a woman who was described as THE MOST LIBERAL member of the Senate and the man who has been described as THE MOST LIBERAL governor in the country as their Presidential and Vice Presidential candidates tells me one of two things: either they have grossly misread the room, or they are so confident that they can cheat their way to victory that their only concern going into the election is that they don’t anger their base.
I think they are counting on a base ignorant of and indifferent to actual political ideology or structure, so all they have to do is keep waving their ISSUES flags at them and working to keep their rage stoked and they think this will garner enough votes to make the cheating seem plausible.
But Trump needs better messaging. I saw that “zen” ad that some other site raved about and thought it was optical salad instead of word salad—choppy and incoherent and way too long.
Admitted “policy wonk” here (me), with comments on lack of policy.
The money flowing in to Kamala’s campaign now is a lot like buying futures. And that’s what the money people are doing. They know Kamala is a blank slate and with the right amount of money, they can get her to do anything they want. It’s really that simple.
This is awesome. Her platform is the same as a slot machine. Put some money in and see what happens.
The part that everyone forgets is that the advantage is to the HOUSE.
I noticed the comment on tariffs and citing inflation from our resident leftist, and I see this a lot on X, which again, just exposes ignorance. First of all, tariffs are NOT inflationary. It’s a tax on imports, and when our imports are being taxed, it’s only right to tax their imports. America is the largest consumer market in the world, and other countries should pay to have access to it. Secondly prior to the income tax, this country was funded by tariffs, so it’s an old and proven revenue mechanism.
What causes inflation son, is when the money supply is increased, and each dollar becomes less and less valuable. Think of it as identity politics. The more identities there are, the less value each one has. Take for example Kamala’s Indian heritage … not worth a bucket of spit right now is it?
You can take the shortsighted snapshot view of tariffs, which is that when someone is used to paying X amount for something from China that this will probably cost X+T once China retaliates with its own tariffs. And that might be true in the short run, for some things. But the longer-term view is that when American industry is not competing with foreign industry that has the advantages of tax-free labor (often slave labor) and materials it can develop itself and the nation can start to return to having a solid, steady employment and business profile.
I’ve spoken with untold numbers of farmers, ranchers, contractors etc who have searched in vain for American-made tools. Tired of Chinese crap that breaks easily, made of poor quality material, we have all wanted American-made products we could count on, and have been willing to pay more to get them. (People on government income don’t need to worry about things like tools, nor do urban elites.)
The eventual outcome of tariffs, if properly applied, is not only revenue to this country but revitalization of our domestic economy by encouraging American manufacturing and, by extension, American jobs. And, of course, reducing our dependence on other countries.
Do you know what happens when a huge electrical transformer fails for any reason? We can’t go down to Transformers R Us and buy a new one. No, one has to be manufactured, from the ground up, and all or nearly all of these essential pieces of equipment are made in China. Remember some recent virus kerfluffle? Well, not only did the virus come from China, nearly every single drug and medical supply did, too. So what happens if China, for political reasons, decides to cut off our supply to pharmaceuticals or electrical equipment?
Incentive to develop, or revive, American industry is essential to national security. (That’s another thing the Lefty lemmings find insignificant, scorning those “security wonks”.) Developing and/or reviving American industry develops a tax base on those industries, provides solid and dependable job opportunities and the taxes on the incomes from those jobs, and makes us far less vulnerable to nations which may not have our best interests at heart.
But the Left could not care less about things like this, not when the sole short-term goal is to prevent Trump from regaining the presidency and the long-term goal is total domination of our country.
Take for example Kamala’s Indian heritage … not worth a bucket of spit right now is it?
LOL!! Although to be fair, her Indian heritage is not the only thing about her that’s not worth a bucket off spit.
Loved the comments about popularity being important. In 2020 Kamala was the least popular Dem primary candidate – dropped out before the first primary. so, what’s she done since to suddenly become popular? Asking for a friend.
In a video of a white man talking to black men in a barber shop, the four men asked all said they do not think Harris is black, though the fourth said he heard she is “half Asian and half black”. So the Left is making progress in erasing the predominantly Irish heritage on her father’s side and substituting the racial identity of “black” for the national identity of “Jamaican” so shazaam! as if by magic she is “half Indian half Jamaican” which then means “half black”. Of the four men on Harris’s father’s side of the family, prior to her own father, all were 100% Irish and of the four women two were 100% Irish, one was possibly partly black and her mother was possibly partly black.
As for popularity, as recently as three or four weeks ago Harris was so profoundly unpopular in her own party that the poohbahs were freaking out about how to get rid of her without alienating black people. Biden has never been smart but he has always been sneaky, and he pulled a fast one on Obama and the party, revenge for humiliating him and dumping him, by naming Harris as his presumptive heir, forcing the party to accept her. He didn’t like her, the party didn’t like her, Obama didn’t like her, the public didn’t like her, and Biden in a grand finale gave them all a big F You and made it impossible to get rid of her. Well played, Joe.
And then the rewriting of history began, and most of those who had objected to her have been forced to pretend it never happened and kiss her ring. Now they are lined up to exclaim how much EXCITEMENT and ENTHUSIASM they are feeling about her. And now she is suddenly, miraculously, POPULAR! Why, it’s almost like a miracle!
What??? Trump did not lunge for the limo wheel?? What’s next? Brett Kavanaugh is not a serial rapist?? Were Democrats lying?
https://dailycaller.com/2024/08/03/trump-lunge-steering-wheel-beast-jan6-witnesses/
Oh, no! Tell me it ain’t so!
That list of things that never happened just keeps getting longer and longer, doesn’t it? Going back to “Hands Up, Don’t Shoot” to “Travyon Martin was stalked by a racist” to “Matthew Shepherd was just a shy young man confused by his sexual identity who was murdered by homophobes” to “Donald Trump, the most identifiable man in NYC, stalked through the women’s department of an upscale NY department store without being seen by ANYONE to follow and molest a marginally attractive woman in a dressing room that provided little to no privacy, who can’t remember what year or month this happened” to “Russian Collusion” to “Christine Blasey Ford was attacked by Brett Kavanaugh decades ago in an unknown house in an unknown year with no witnesses or contemporaneous report of this and BTW she is afraid to fly” to “Kamala Harris is half black and half Indian” to the claim that now “Jamaican” is a black race and not a national identity to the rest of an ongoing and forever-expanding litany of lies told by the Left, it’s almost impossible to keep track of them.
There are lies to attack Leftist opposition and opponents, there are lies to support Leftists, there are little lies slipped into every Agenda Media report and bigger lies and then huge lies that form the substance of the Left’s appeals to the public—-but it’s all lies of one kind or another.
And the lies are why we are in such chaos. I’ll take “mean tweets but the truth” for $500 Alex.
And I’ll take “ideology not issues for a thousand”
Well, the Dems avoided picking an evil Jew as the VP candidate, in fact they further rubbed salt in the wound and picked a guy who changed the Minnesota state flag to mimic the flag of Somalia. My bet is that a majority of American Jews will still vote for Harris/Walz while simultaneously requesting reservations for the first boxcar. I won’t shed a tear when they get hustled off the the camps. And to my few Jewish friends, I’m sorry that the truth is so ugly.
This Democrat ticket has all the similarities to the Clinton/Kaine ticket in 2016, but with less charm.
Burn!
no one will shame you
I just read this little nugget from our newest communist. “No one will shame you” LMAO. For the love of God, who do these people think they are? They think so highly of themselves, and for very little reason, while the rest of us just consider them to be loud, stupid, and annoying.
Democrats have just nominated the most provably incompetent, and furthest Left Presidential ticket in the history of this country, and they will lose badly. Normal Americans are sick and tired of irrational Democrat lunatics who complain about everything and blame everyone else for their incompetence. No one is ever held accountable in their childish little world
These trolls need as many clicks or responses as they can get and try taunting to get replies. Every now and then I answer one or two because I know we have people who check in on the blog without participating and sometimes a troll will set up a perfect opportunity to make a point.
Just look at the infantile tactics they use—asking a question that has to, if answered, lead into another and set up a bickerfest that they will keep going as long as they can, with the usual ploys like “so you agree, then?” If you say no, that leads into one pathway of bickering. If you agree, then you have opened a different door into endless quibbling. None of it, not a word, is intended to further an honest exchange of ideas or even to change any minds. It’s just to get people to respond to them. That is why they inevitably get blocked—-and then they get different ISPs and come back under different names, but with the same game plans.
We’ve speculated about whether the two who keep coming back (we call them Herpes 1 and Herpes 2) are paid trolls or just weirdos who get some visceral pleasure from goading people into bickering. If the former, then their goal is just to get as many responses as possible because that is how they are rated. If the latter it is a mental illness in which they need feedback, no matter how negative, to validate themselves—– which makes them caspers.
Yeah, I thought that “shame” thing was pretty desperate.
We have to define “Leftist”. Like “conservative” it is a word tossed out there that is meaningless to most Americans. We’ve seen people here, and I have run into a couple, who deny that there IS any such thing as “the Left”, that it is just a pejorative, that it’s a vaguely insulting word we call people we don’t like. There is no concept that it actually technically defines a specific political philosophy Ditto for “rightwing”, which is a catchall phrase for anything the Left wants to demonize.
We have to start educating people about the structure of Leftist governance, which is a top-down system of consolidated power, and the sneaky tactic of the Left for getting support for this from people who think they are just voting for ISSUES with no clue that the issues are merely bait.
This is an interesting video for people who think electric cars, etc. are the answer. Mark had a post a few days ago about a truckload of lithium batteries catching fire and shutting down an entire interstate highway for a whole day, both directions. (The comment at the end of the video says two days.) This video should make people think about parking electric cars, bicycles, hoverboards etc. in their garages and should also make people think about committing to electric vehicles.
As I think I’ve mentioned before, I still belong to an old Tea Party group that is one of the few, maybe the only one still active in northeast Indiana. We’ve kind of morphed into a community interest group and put on some kind of civic related program once a month. Tonight the presentation was by a group I’ve never heard of called Tactical Civics. Similar concept to the original Tea Party but with an actual battle plan and what appears to be a lot better organization. And Amazona will love this part: part of their plan is to create a county grand jury system, backed up by a county by county militia to enforce indictments of public officials who engage in unconstitutional actions. I need to learn a lot more about it, but I’m intrigued.
It’s a little more complicated than just making oaths of office mandatory and binding, but it’s a step in the right direction.
I think there is a hunger among millions of ordinary Americans to do something to combat the cancer that has taken over this country. I think we’re probably past the point where it can be solved at the ballot box but not quite to the point where the only solution is the bullet box. Leftists seemingly have no problem recruiting activists, but for some reason Conservatives don’t seem to be able to put together cohesive, grassroots organizations.
That’s because the Left appeals to emotions and validates personality disorders by claiming they are just virtuous passion, while the Right depends on thought and analysis and rationality, all of which are more demanding but more to the point require more explanation, and we suck at explaining,
Another Squad member goes down in flames. Not that any of them are exactly the sharpest knives in the drawer, but Cori Bush has to be one of the dullest.
Dull? Have you SEEN those
clawsfingernails? Of course when the sharpest thing about you is a bunch of keratin at the ends of your fingers you don’t have much to brag about.John Stossel has a great article today on slavery in America
How refreshing. An adult take on slavery. Good article
It’s just simple facts, which are not only not taught but are hidden. I remember a couple of things that had the Left absolutely flipping out, that came to mind reading this. One was an article by a black single mother thanking George W Bush for welfare reform. She said that when she learned she had two years left to collect welfare and then would be kicked off she panicked because welfare was all she had ever known, but she used those years to go to school and then got a job—her first job—and wrote about how working had given her dignity and self esteem. And one was by a black woman who said that while she grieved for the miseries her slave ancestors had gone through at the same time she was grateful to them because if they had not been slaves she would have been born in Africa and probably not survived childhood, while as an American she had security, employment, food and shelter and a future she could control.
The Left hated having black people hear stories like this.
I thought it was interesting when the author pointed out that most slaves in America lived, and that was not the case in many other countries where slaves were worked to death. Also, 4% of the slave trade ended up here in America. I did not know that
Yes, the American Left’s racist agenda has convinced American blacks that America was the only slave nation, that it was founded on slavery, that it was responsible for slavery, and also that only black people have been enslaved and only by white people. And that every white slaveholder was sadistic, cruel and a rapist. (The theory that Sally Hemmings was raped by Thomas Jefferson is a narrative that not only goes against every single fact known about Jefferson as a man, it degrades Hemming and denies any agency she may have exercised, stripping her of will and making her nothing but a helpless tool. But it is necessary to advance the whole racist slave narrative.)
It is not a defense of slavery to point out, as this article does, that many slaves had much better lives than many free people, not just including but especially many poor whites. While the indignity and violation of basic human rights represented by slavery cannot be denied, neither can the benefits that some slaves experienced, such as security, shelter, adequate food and access to education and training that served them well after emancipation.
What the Left does is take a snapshot of a certain time or event and then present that static representation as the entire truth of the entire subject.
What the Left does is take a snapshot of a certain time or event and then present that static representation as the entire truth of the entire subject.
In other words, binary thinking. Which is weird considering they are non binary people lol
The only thing worse than identity politics, is pandering identity politics. White Democrat men have become some really weird people. Casper is a good example.
“You know, I’m Jewish and Irish. I wish I was black. Every white Jewish guy wishes he was black,” Stiller added.
It sounds like Stiller was expressing the self-hatred of so many Jews that makes them vote against their own people and their own self-interest.
Something else that occurred to me today as I was driving is that Stiller might have been subconsciously reflecting Jewish Woody-Allenish fretting about his manhood and the image of black men as virile. (Don Lemon notwithstanding.)
What struck me in the article I read where Stiller said this (obviously pandering in that “Dudes” for Harris thing) aside from naming seriously unfunny “dudes” as funny, was: not only did the television star pledge to donate $150,000 to the campaign…. That goes to my question about the alleged 4 million dollars “raised” from this call. If all 150,000 “dudes” on the call donated that would have come out to a truly impressive $26.00 and change from each passionate supporter of Harris. Such energy! Such EXCITEMENT! I don’t care enough to do the math to see how that average would come down if this $150,000 from one “dude” were factored in, but my real point is to question how much of this alleged donation figure was hard cash and how much was IOU-scribbled-on-cocktail-napkin-to-try-to-impress posturing.
Is it just me, or does Kamala seem drunk here? She appears to be talking about the responsibility of having power, yet she did exactly what she is pointing out as a danger and using power to control the lives of others, but seems unsteady, with a blank look on her face. In one of her hand waves I thought she was going to pull herself out of her chair.
Ironically, with a “swipe of her pen”, she did ruin the lives of many black men caught with weed.
Earlier I commented that we need to define and explain Leftism, but it also helps to give examples of life under the heavy hand (bootheel) of an unrestrained government. We keep giving examples, from the federal agency surveillance of American citizens to try to keep one party in power to the use of federal agencies to harass, intimidate, and even imprison and torture people who represent political opposition to the dictate of one man demanding that we inject an experimental drug as a condition for keeping our jobs, our military positions and our ability to travel freely, among others. These examples either never struggle past the smothering layer of Complicit Agenda Media or they merely strike a populace so tolerant of tyranny that they don’t alarm it.
But this might. Evidently the federal government has a secret plan for identifying people based on their political positions and then marking them for increased surveillance when they fly (at the very least) as if they are terrorists. This plan is named Silent Skies, and people are put on its watchlist without their knowledge. One such target is Tulsi Gabbard, evidently earning her identity as a potential threat to the nation by criticizing Kamala Harris.