Don't let lying corporate media confuse you. Trump's historic tariff plan changed everything. It's uncomplicated, simple, and elegant. And it's terrific. That and more, in today's special edition.
re: "That is why foreign governments, corporate media, and the parasite class are howling. The postwar free ride is over. The host finally vomited up the parasite. And the Bretton Woods era is finally finished."
In one hour, President Trump did more to restore the power of this country TO ITS PEOPLE than the blood sucking leeches did the last 5 decades to destroy it.
Jeff, thank you for taking the time to lay it out in clearly digestible format, even for the howling Portlanders and their ilk. I carefully listened to the entire speech, everyone should. Find it here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QbDphSyfYXM
A suggestion: Bookmark Jeff's excellent explanation of what our Great POTUS (and his excellent team) just did and send it to every sniveling, whining global marxist, every uniparty member ("our" democrat and RINO "representatives") and corrupt deep state scum bag (all who have massively profited from the grift), all the Wall Street and K Street grifters and all the indoctrinated servants who have profited from the despicable decline of the American people. Tell them to read it and get back to you if they need any clarification. Tell them you support the POTUS 100%. Put Jeff's great explanation to work.
I was also listening to Bannon's War Room on Real America's Voice yesterday, he and his guests were also breaking it down and he was talking about how 2 April should be the next American holiday for the Declaration of Economic Independence - yes, it's that important. Obviously not right away, but when every American fully realizes the benefit of what POTUS did for them.
Do not forget, we are in a fight with a hateful, resentful and determined group of enemies who do not want a strong, successful America. We must be the last ones standing, they are not going to just roll over.
Just watched this, and have to share it because it helps explain things. Don't know who this woman is, but man did she just lay down - in 2 short mins - a whole lot of facts and truth to reprobate Maher: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/eB2Gz06CKIo
Let's not forget how we got to the super high prices of eggs. Massive printing of dollars (causing grotesquely high inflation ON EVERYTHING) under the treasonous, un-elected and completely corrupt biden administration and his equally corrupt HHS and Dep of Ag., who forced the killing of over 60 MILLION egg laying chickens so they could drive the prices up (basic supply and demand) and claim another created health crisis: bird flu. And then try to dump it all in President Trump's lap.
That is such utter and complete horse dung. Vote for obama and biden did you? You had to have, to have such a convoluted, misinformed, lack of understanding of history. And of government financing, which comes from the house and the senate. Not so great, andrew.
The PPP was enacted in the Spring of 2020. Who the fck do you think was POTUS in Spring 2020?
The first (and maybe second) EIP was done in 2020. Trump even put his signature on the notice accompanying the checks. Couldn't've done that if he weren't president.
Funding comes from Congress, but the president signs the legislation, genius. The president was Trump in ALL of 2020.
The only horse dung in this thread is your brain.
Let's see your intellectual chops. Here's what I wrote:
"...the first massive printing of dollars...took place under and by Trump"
Now:
1. What is convoluted about that?
2. What is misinformed about that?
3. What understanding of history is lacking in that?
I'll say it again: the only horse dung in this thread is your brain.
Yeah, I couldn’t not share it when I saw it, that woman was ALL OVER IT! And PROUD of you for having the courage to admit you were wrong about President Trump. Every single person, like you, and her, who comes on board the restoration of America, will make it more and more difficult for the enemy to win.
As you watch it, keep in mind she is a confirmed leftist... who is beginning to be un-confirmed! She's beginning to get it even if some of her "facts" are not quite right. :-)
I sure wish we could. Creating a completely unnecessary and divisive "holiday" based on a ridiculous notion, did not serve the country well. But then, it's purpose was to further hurt the country.
I would be happy to lose that woman's support, whoever she is, once she is disabused of her false understanding of MAGA and social conservatism. Trump has not "sidelined" social conservatives. I would wager that a majority of commenters to this site would identify as "social conservatives." Trump is not "for" abortion up until 12 weeks. He realizes that in the extremely degraded state of American culture that there is no way to win a national election and support total abortion ban. If pro lifers want to live in a country where they are free to ply their trade of pregnancy crisis centers, anti abortion counseling, and simply praying en masse outside abortion clinics, Trump and MAGA are the only ones who will protect their right to do whatever it takes to restore our culture to a state that properly values life and authentic human dignity. As we see in Europe, the Left is radically anti Christian. Trump supports people who carry their faith forward into the public square and the public policy arena. Finally, he is not "pro gay." I'm not sure if he would support overturning Obergefell, but I sincerely doubt that Pride flags will be flown outside of U.S. Embassies during the Trump administration.
I agree with your comments... but converting delusional lunatics does not happen overnight. She's beginning to see the light and I encourage her continued growth. She and I don't have to violently agree but the fact she is moving is good, don't you think?
like the fraud that DOGE has exposed, Trump has exposed the scam of Globalism - we all knew that the situations were less than ideal, but really had no idea of the sheer magnitude of the fraud and corruption in both situations and the facts show that the entire system was corrupt and needed to be blown up - and btw Globalism is more than just a money scam - it is communism dressed up with a fancy name which always seeks the lowest common denominator by tearing down successful people/countries to create "equality", except of course for the elite rulers
Excellent William. I'd go one step further and say it is tyrannical dictatorship and total subjugation of the masses. The CCP is the model the global marxists desperately want to impose on the world.
I know I’ve talked about this before, but a few years ago, I had a discussion with a guy (an American) who worked for an NGO in China. He tried to tell me that China is not a communist country. He was an idiot.
Now if we could only get them to stop spraying in our skies! Representative Kevin Steele sponsored House Bill 477 (HB 477) as a companion to Senator Ileana Garcia's Senate Bill 56 (SB 56), which aims to prohibit geoengineering and weather modification activities in Florida. However, Governor Ron DeSantis criticized HB 477, stating that it "gutted" Garcia's measure and would "actually codify the practice of geoengineering and weather modification."
Contact Information for Representative Kevin Steele:
"The postwar free ride is over. The host finally vomited up the parasite." And that's not me getting choked up and crying tears of relief in my coffee with the dream that my kids might actually have a chance to live better than I did in the 80s, and maybe, even hopefully better than my mom and dad did in the 1950's. Hope. It's what's for dinner.
Pretty funny stuff, but now that's a hated acronym. I suppose though, that stealing what DEI means and stands for and gradually shifting it is pretty clever.
It's what the progressives did with all of our words, gay used to mean happy, now it's a bad word, illegal immigrant is now newcomer, homeless is unhoused, they just keep shifting the platform under our feet, time to return the favor.
@Chriss- many words have been perverted over the centuries. Dumb means can't speak but turned into 'stupid'. Retarded means slowed (still used in the mechanical world) but it'll get you thrown into Facebook jail for 30 days. My mother lived on Dyke Street in my hometown. I was on a FB page talking about it and got thrown into Zuckjail for using the word Dyke. Yep. Lotsa words.
Ironically, Google is being sued for allegedly discriminating against men. An unnamed boss at the company is accused of systematically favoring women for promotion.
But refuse godless myths fit only for old women. On the other hand, train yourself for the purpose of godliness, for bodily training is only of little profit, but godliness is profitable for all things, since it holds promise for the present life and also for the life to come. It is a trustworthy saying and deserving full acceptance. For it is for this we labor and strive, because we have fixed our hope on the living God, who is the Savior of all men, especially of believers.
Amen Janice…good reminder that that enjoying economic success without keeping the Creator at the center is the path to idolatry and eventual national destruction. America is truly the city on a hill providing light and inspiration to a benighted world as long as our societal mind remains fixed on those things that glorify God. May the Lord richly bless you today, and every day dear sister, with sweet fellowship with the Father.
I ask God everyday to steer the new admin and all who work in it to keep God at its center. Bring God back into America, at its very core and we will reap goodness and mercy!!!!! May God protect our President and admin!!!! Go God, go Trump, Go MAHA and Go Doge!!!! Happy Liberations Days ahead!!!!
Please pray about this too! I agree with you 100% If we could get them (Federal Government or military or some other secret entity to stop spraying in our skies, we would also be better off. Representative Kevin Steele sponsored House Bill 477 (HB 477) as a companion to Senator Ileana Garcia's Senate Bill 56 (SB 56), which aims to prohibit geoengineering and weather modification activities in Florida. However, Governor Ron DeSantis criticized HB 477, stating that it "gutted" Garcia's measure and would "actually codify the practice of geoengineering and weather modification."
Contact Information for Representative Kevin Steele:
I read the CNN egg story looking for the "catch," too. I think they meant it to be this: "Price increases for eggs may have slowed but are still historically high." Only CNN could call a 50% drop in prices "a slowing of price increases." SMH!
When mother’s couldn’t get formula for their infants no one said anything about Biden being too mentally compromised to handle that crisis. But let inconsequential prices of eggs go up or down they continue to blame Trump for that! Talk about schizophrenia in the left!?!
I worked in an Alt Med clinic, had twin infants come in, one was allergic to formula, wasn’t thriving like other twin. The dr told mom, get fresh goat’s milk, it’s the closest to mother’s breast milk. Problem solved!!
The Food Babe showed the ingredients in the best-selling baby formula- horrifying! I’m glad she’s shining the spotlight on that concoction of mainly added sugars.
I agree, obviously there are times when there is no other choice but breast milk has benefits that formula can’t hope to ever replicate and formula has dangers (contamination, like the melamine a few years ago) that breast milk doesn’t have.
Joe Rogan recently had a guest explaining all the garbage in baby formula - I think it was Dr. Suzanne Humphries. I understand that often there is no other option - so I'm not hating here. Nice to know goat's milk is an option!
Goat milk is not the only option. You can make your own formula and not buy the garbage they sell. Look up Weston Price foundation for info. I prepared formula for my son using their recipe and he is a thriving healthy 17-yr old.
Ugh, I still remember that, and remember thinking that the headlines should have read: “Historic crisis: Women’s breasts no longer work, infants malnourished!”
Remember, elected politicians and their media puppets call a decrease of an increase in spending, say taking a 5% increase down to a 4% increase, a cut in spending.
Tariffs are the best solution to reindustrialization, restoring the middle and working classes, helping small businesses, restoring America’s traditional high quality of workmanship, and finally getting rid of income taxes. There have been only 3 presidents who can be called founding presidents: Washington, Lincoln, and Trump. The courage of this man to remake the country is something we won’t see again for another century.
That fascist generally shredded the Constitution, which allowed States to secede based on the p
guarantee of freedom of association. Of course, forcing some of the States to stay in the room until they signed the Constitution in the first place also violated the principle.
Lincoln a fascist? The word hadn't even been invented yet, but whatever. Where on earth did the idea come from that the Constitution allowed states to secede? No such thing existed. And still doesn't. There is a process for becoming a state, but not to leave the Union. When the Confederate states seceded, they did so unconstitutionally. Lincoln said as much. Also, please check Article I, section 9 of the Constitution which reads: "The Privilege of the Writ of Habeas Corpus shall not be suspended, unless when in Cases of Rebellion or Invasion the public Safety may require it." If one accuses Lincoln of "shredding" the Constitution, it should be noted that his abrogations were constitutional in light of the "Rebellion."
The concept goes back to ancient Rome. Freedom of Association is absolutely a foundational principle in the Constitution. And let's not forget another bedrock, Habeas Corpus, with which Lincoln dispensed entirely- not that he was unique in using the Constitution to wipe his backside. Three out of the four 1798 Alien & Sedition Acts were also unconstitutional (with a new admin they were quickly struck down).
Do not ask me for sources, I'm not your secretary, so DYOR!!! And actually read the Constitution along with the various documentation of the associated argumentation. It's terrifying that you do not know that Freedom of Association was & is foundational to the United States!
Also, insisting on your right of home state rule (the Federal Government originally conceived as limited to regulation between States & providing common defense) is rebellion against illegitimate tyranny. And the only invasion was of the Southern States by Lincoln.
Also, insisting on your right of home state rule (the Federal Government originally conceived as limited to regulation between States & providing common defense) is rebellion against illegitimate tyranny. And the only invasion was of the Southern States by Lincoln.
The right to leave the union was very well discussed and agreed upon with the founding fathers. It’s not debatable. It’s a shame that part of our history has been lost. That decision based created a hostage situation where the federal govt cannot be held accountable.
Also, insisting on your right of home state rule (the Federal Government originally conceived as limited to regulation between States & providing common defense) is rebellion against illegitimate tyranny. And the only invasion was of the Southern States by Lincoln.
Also, insisting on your right of home state rule (the Federal Government originally conceived as limited to regulation between States & providing common defense) is rebellion against illegitimate tyranny. And the only invasion was of the Southern States by Lincoln.
I’m speaking of its modern definition, not in the literal way the Romans used the word. There were no corporate entities at that time. Mussolini used the term to symbolize the cooperation between private companies and the government.
Keep your eyes on the root cause-the evil people who collected Africans and dumped them in other countries to be sold. And the evil people who actually bought them and forced them to work. Once the US got “used” to that it was very difficult to undo. But it’s done. In the US. Unfortunately slavery existence goes back a long way, and still exists today.
White were slaves too. Ask the Irish community…they got it worse than the blacks. And there was more black slave owners than whites. The black slave owners did not want slavery to go away.
The greatest injustice that the slavers perpetrated was against the Western hemisphere and its values. The African culture is profoundly at variance with the European culture. It does not value hard work and altruism and the greater good of the community. It values aquisition above all, and the culture will stop at nothing to "get" anything they want for their OWN family.
To expect "them" to acquire our culture over four hundred years after tens of thousands of years of "developing" their own is unrealistic.
No one thought this through in the 17th, 18th centuries, though, did they? So now they're "our" problem because they certainly will not go back to where they came from!
Those problems in the black community didn't begin to show up until LBJ in his War on Poverty made that population into wards of the state which broke up families and led to a multitude of other problems. But he did it in order to make the black community into permanent Democrat voters. That is only now beginning to change.
And then it was abandoned, actually struck down by SCOTUS in 1895, until the Constitution was amended in 1913 by progressives (who else?) who thought the amendment was only applicable to the wealthiest Americans. They had decided that without an income tax, America would create an untouchable class of elites who wouldn't need to work and would inherit their wealth. How'd THAT work out? In WW2, the decision was made to collect the income tax before workers ever saw their paycheck. It was meant to be temporary, but here we are. And now most wealthy people don't pay it due to all the loopholes. Lincoln meant it only as a war time measure. So why is Lincoln a "founding" president? Because he took on slavery and should be credited with finally ending it.
I am not presuming to argue that Lincoln was alone in taking on slavery as an issue since there had been an ongoing fight over it since the founding. At first the hope was that political compromise would work, but it didn't, and groups (usually Christian women in the North) began demanding its end. Lincoln could see perfectly well that the nation could not survive with two separate labor systems in place. It's difficult to argue, though, that he did not lead the nation into finally ending slavery. Leadership matters. Please reread his Gettysburg Address.
He didn't give a shit about them & wanted to ship them all back to Africa. During General Sherman's terror campaign, quaintly & propagandistcally referred to in the official narrative as his "March to the Sea,' thousands of freed slaves with nowhere to go & nothing to eat (because their homes & crops were burned right along with their masters') started following in the wake of the Union Army. And instead of helping the people they claimed to be "freeing," they turned on the helpless column and
SLAUGHTERED them. You need to put down your little book of fairy tales & find actual primary sources from BOTH sides of the conflict. The South was well on their way to freeing their own slaves for economic reasons when the tyrant invaded. Even William Wilberforce in Britain was more motivated by economics than by ethics- industrialization was making traditional slavery too expensive. Of course, you probably have no idea that many northern wage slaves of the same era, who also worked as entire families, were not free to leave their employers either once they were inevitablely indebted to the company store.
" My paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union, and is not either to save or to destroy slavery. If I could save the Union without freeing any slave I would do it, and if I could save it by freeing all the slaves I would do it; and if I could save it by freeing some and leaving others alone I would also do that" --Lincoln's letter to Horace Greeley https://www.abrahamlincolnonline.org/lincoln/speeches/greeley.htm
In other words, any means to an end. And by the time of the Emancipation Proclamation, he saw what his mission was: to end slavery, as he said in his letter above as one of his options. It was a founding moment. The nation's best and most respected historians rank the presidents. Lincoln has for years been in the #1 spot. Criteria are achievements and leadership qualities.
Also, insisting on your right of home state rule (the Federal Government originally conceived as limited to regulation between States & providing common defense) is rebellion against illegitimate tyranny. And the only invasion was of the Southern States by Lincoln.
Expectations are 6-12 months for stabilization. No fear.
It will be nothing compared to the past 4 years of 25% inflation, supply chain stoppage, insurance 2x increases, interest rates, multiple wars, historical illegal immigration and wealth flushed through fraudulent NGOs. We went through the last 4 years with NO payoff, only loss. There will be massive economic payoff very soon and all honest people will benefit.
The war front isn't looking too good at the moment. Factories and good production isnt going to materialize in the timeframe you suggest. A real revolutionary would take on the banking cartel and quit borrowing our own money with interest attached.
I’m not a billionaire puppet. If Trump were serious, he’d quite bowing down to Israel, quit record military budgets, and quit borrowing our own money with interest attached. The rest is just smoke and mirrors that you are all too happy to eat up. Trump already put us many trillion more into debt his first term in office, but I’m assuming you already forgot that in our country full of amnesia patients.
To quote Jeff Childers, "Let the man work." All is unfolding and rather quickly. You know any other president who has done this much in less than 3 months? Be patient. And stop being scared.
Israel was included in the tariffs if you didn’t catch it. Would you rather him “bow down” to Hamas and Iran like Biden did?
Unfortunately we need a strong (military) budget to help end all the foreign wars Biden perpetuated, and also $ to secure our own borders and purge the invaders Biden let in. At least they are cutting a trillion of absurd spending and fraud at the same time so we can pass a real budget come Fall.
Nobody here has amnesia; we’re hopeful that a different approach will yield different results and we’re willing to give it time. Maybe you should try it!
Tax cuts are great, if you can afford them. We keep spending a trillion + on defense, we can't afford it. Apparently they haven't figured this out yet. Or if we continue to borrow our own money with interest attached....
Oh the irony. You morons who blindly support a genocide in Palestine, which our tax monies fund.....and our empire spread everywhere, with bases in 80-100 countries with 10s of thousands of troops at them. If YOU really supported the troops, you wouldn't support this blood ridden empire.
You'll be able to use the extra money you save on gas and eggs to level out and I dare say do better... Unless you're in a blue state like Illinois where the Dems are ***ing us the difference and harboring illegals who are fathering/hugging little girls.
so you are ok with the US being ripped off - tariffs for thee but not for me - guess you think USAID was doing great work as well - shouldn't you be posting on Mother Jones
We all have the right to our opinions. Trump is an idol, one to be thankful for. If you choose not to be happy about what he and his cabinet are trying to do, that is your choice. As for most of us, we are smiling, its Liberation Days ahead!
Interesting discussion about tariffs yesterday on 2-Way (Halperin's YT show). Building mfg in US is a multi-year effort (say auto parts). Mfgs will just wait out Trump's term of less than 3 years. Unlikely you will see mass new mfg in US. I guess we'll see.
That only works if they can tear the presidency out of MAGAs hands. There hopefully will be another 8-12 years after Trump. The talent lined up on our side is like a candy store. The Dems have nothing to choose from - and it would take many years to gather equal talent on their side. They can hold out 3 years maybe, but I don’t think they can hold out for 8-12.
They just have to figure out how to stop Soros and his type of ilk from pouring ungodly amounts of money into terribly destructive politicians, judges, and local elected. Why no one has gone after that guy and Gates is beyond me.
This is an excellent thought. The buying (bribing) of politicians has to be stopped. Maybe no corporate donations. The Bribers will fight this tooth and nail.
I'm sure if the DOJ wanted to they could find a crime that Soros has committed. Why haven't they? There are other countries that have declared Soros a criminal, though. Can't we just turn him over to them?
I keep sending out thoughts of his death to the universe. I loathe him and his sons, who are worse than the senior soros. the only good soros is a dead soros. I know this is not nice to say but I have had it with these subhumans evil attempts and evil has to be gotten rid of.
This is only half of the equation. The other half is corporate income tax (as well as personal income tax). I believe Trump has signaled to reduce or eliminate tax rates so he is aware.
Ask yourself, why did corporations move off-shore to begin with??? Understand, we lost our manufacturing base BECAUSE of taxes, NOT because labor was $2 cheaper overseas. They moved overseas because the income tax was little to nothing overseas. Eliminate corporate tax and the corporations will FLOOD back to this country and employment will go through the roof.
Tariffs will not drive business back to the US unless it is coupled with the elimination of income tax. Follow the money. It's easy math!
(Also, understand that corporate tax is itself a tax on the American people. It is a pass-through cost to the consumer. SO... we pay ALL the tax that is levied on the economy by the Government - ALL OF IT. As Childers says, the American people have been raped continuously since BEFORE WWII - actually since 1913, but that's another story.)
I lived in an upstate New York City growing up. Yes, taxes were the chief reason why most industries moved out. But heating costs in those old drafty buildings played a part also. Personnel issues factored in the equation: cars wouldn’t start on extreme cold days, more people got sick during the cold weather, school snow days left kids at home preventing moms from going to work. They could run their businesses more cheaply in warmer southern states but the BIG money was on taxes which pushed them offshore.
Environmental, labor rights, minimum wage, unions, there's a long list of costs imposed on American businesses. A lot of those costs vanish if the factory and the jobs can be "moved" to a cheaper country that doesn't have (or obey) those silly laws against polluting or exploiting wage slaves.
China, after Nixon, dismantled U.S. factories and shipped them over to China to be copied. The Chinese reversed engineered and then made many more of the same factories to employ Chinese workers in China. China can now dismantle and send a few factories back to the U.S. Quid pro quo.
It all depends on perception. If manufacture's abroad see 1) that the Trump counter-revolution to Commie Woke has multi-term legs, and) if they see the Woke funding mechanism destroyed, 3) and if they see the United States becomes low cost and quick implementation regulatory friendly, and 4) that the United States is low cost energy input cost of production competitive (coal, oil and gas, nuclear), and 5) becomes and remains friendly low cost environment ... then manufacturers will be tempted to see the advantages and move production over to the United States. Also, the justice system has to be restored and the monetary/financial system has to be stabilized. In short, the entire Globalist/Woke System has to be permanently dismantled. It's a tall order, but if goals are not met then the only other outcome becomes failed state status.
Other things figure in. For example, chip manufacturing from Taiwan might like to relocate to the US if the terms and business clime are favorable in order to hedge their bets against the Mainland taking over Taiwan.
The Restructure Project is a big one. It encompasses all areas of human endeavor. It complex, and in some common sense ways simple, and all at the same time.
Tariffs are far from a magical solution. In theory they could be relatively neutral (e.g. if all imports were charged roughly the same tax). In practice they are used arbitrarily to reward or punish certain nations with high or low tariffs respectively. Equivalently, high tariffs will be used to protect favored domestic producers and their employees (read, “campaign contributors”). In practice, tariffs reduce the availability of products and the end consumer pays higher prices.
I cheer for what Team MAGA hopes to do. But at the same time I'm dumstruck by the lack of elementary economic knowledge by so many people. Folks, the US faces structural issues that aren't going to vanish just because Trump imposes a 20% tariff on Flat Screen TVs from China.
Underlying cost structures: My question to the economists is - what about when cost structures in other countries are miles below the US? (Cost of a Big Mac stuff). Seeking the lower costs, won't consumers continue to buy China and Bangladesh goods for a long time, even with tariffs? Answering my own question, we probably won't see some industries onshore work again - like clothing and some foods. And our domestically sourced good's prices will increase because the US inputs are more expensive. I'm a little nervous about this transition, but maybe inflation won't increase - as the biden $6T spending spree subsides - and maybe the higher US cost structure will just backfill into the transitory biden-inflated prices we see. Result: no change in prices or really low inflation. (Please...) We don't/can't have reduced prices too much, or we get stagflation I am told, resulting in financial shrinkage.
As a consumer I was totally mystified that during Covid our entire import process was suddenly interrupted. The amount and types of goods we could not get was really scary. It opened my eyes to our plight as a nation of consumers not producers. Over the past 4-5 decades we had turned into a service nation, we produced nothing, right down to medication, ammunition, furniture, automobiles and much more. Is it any wonder we were being raked over the coals, thru cheaply/inferior made goods at inflated prices. We got poorer and every other country got wealthier. Heck Europe uses our military to protect their country, then charges us tariffs! The blinders are now off and I won’t go back to my apathy of “oh well” that’s the way it is!!
I used this one at first and it’s great for small uses such as a 5-7 day treatment for a virus.
But my last two orders have been from Kay-biotech.com, which a nurse at Dr Pierre Kory’s practice tipped me off to. The reason being it is much, much cheaper if you are doing detox regimens that require 3-6 months of dosing. We needed a lot for three of our family to do the protein detox protocol. I am paying $24 for 100 tablets of 12mg each.
Just wanted to provide a second source. Shipping is about the same as the others - it takes a while to get here.
Alldaychemist.com -I’ve ordered half a dozen times maybe…b/c it’s an international shipment, it can take a few weeks, although it has gotten fasten, I think.
Also, more recently, 2nd smartest guy substack has a link to Virex Health, arrives within a few days…also a source for Fenbendazole and other cancer protocol products.
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That’s the one we use too from 2nd smartest guy. . Just ordered some. Husband is taking it and now I am to see if it helps a digestive issue. Happy with the service. I’m worried the cancer industry is going to flex their evil muscle though. We will use horse version if necessary.
Just dose it appropriately for weight. We had friends that their whole family took it for the Fauci 2019 cold & flu virus, and it cleared it right up. We took the regular version for the same 'virus' and it also worked. Huge believers in Ivermectin.
Kathleen, look into the HumanN Super Beats and their NEO40, also Carditone by Ayush Herbs for healthy blood pressure support. There is also Blood Pressure 911 by Phytage, another natural blood pressure support formula. I take all of them and have been able to kiss the pharma so-called medicines goodbye. Have been completely off BP meds for almost six years now and have never felt better. Reduced stress also helped.
Amen! God is Great, MOMinator! Congrats on weaning off of all those rx's!! I only had to get off two, the BP and cholesterol meds... fortunately there are natural options out there, that work (although, *These statements have not been evaluated by the FDA. This product is not intended to diagnose, treat, cure, or prevent any disease.)... although they do just that.... LOL!
I will also chime in here on BP solutions. My wife's BP was up there in the 180/90 range and a friend of hers, a legit herbalist, recommended David Wintson's Grief Relief. The ingredient of interest here is hawthorn. Anyhow, it wasn't a week and her BP was down to the 120/70 range. She quit taking it after many month and she had to go to urgent care to check for strep and her BP was sky high. They told her to go see her primary about that, probably to get a script. Started taking the hawthorn again and within days her BP was back to normal. Might not work for everyone, but can't hurt to try.
Edit - I looked at the ingredients on Blood Pressure 911 by Phytage and low and behold, it has hawthorn in it.
Melatonin extended release 10mg is also very good for lowering bp especially if you’re over 50 —your natural lowered amt of melatonin contributes to higher bp in the older cohort. It’s not HUGE but if you only have moderate hbp it should be more than enough to get the job done. EG you only take an ACE inhibitor like lisinopril or an ARB like losartan. Maybe a water pill like hydrochlorothiazide too. Melatonin not only helps you regulate your bp it contributes to elasticity of your arteries (makes them more youthful). Dr McCullough has written quite a bit about melatonin and its role in bp regulation and to my knowledge he isn’t selling melatonin for the purpose lol. And he’s a respected cardiologist. It worked for me I was in the 140/85 range and after about 4 months I had to get rid of the last RX I was on as I was dipping below 100/60. Now I’m 115/70 most days. No weight loss required (although it would have been nice 😂).
I've read "they've" lowered what is considered normal just to sell more prescriptions. That also happened with what used to be considered normal cholesterol numbers. Normal is now much lower, therefore, the number of people getting scripts is higher. What a racket.
New parameters 140/90. Back to the future. 🙄 They really don't share until you hit 200. Yes we had ONE med tell us that. I know she's right. The nurse practitioner as usual tried to feel is out, he's gonna die NOW would meds! Do you know the signs?! Oh, they ARE SIGNS??! Is there a diet? Oh yes a diet but she want going to tell us that. You know, no salt, no meat, no fat...🙄😡 Besides they took his bp with his elbow elevated to his shoulder level. That's 'how they were taught'. It's science.
@Irunthis1: Interesting, thank you for that info. I also take Melatonin 5mg at before hitting the rack at night, so perhaps that is also assisting me. Been doing the Melatonin for just a couple years though. Sleep has been great. Getting deep rem sleep.
Question on the dosage, is the 10mg the amount needed to get the full benefits you describe above?
It’s the extended release at 10mg that seems to work best although extended in this case is only about 5-7 hours. As a hormone it has a relatively low half life and the extended allows a longer window of effect. I’ll see if I can link Dr Mcculloughs article about it to you here in a minute. I take the Natures Made Sleep Well extended release with GABA. Interestingly, GABA is metabolized in the gut (at very low levels but there it is) to GHB which is one of the best sleep aids in the world giving one good REM sleep, stimulating growth hormone among other benefits.
I think this is it. Annoyingly it requires a paid subscription to read entirely but I was a paying customer back then. Apparently you don’t get to keep access for material you paid for which is sort of raising my bp right now. 🫤
Awesome, thank you! FYI, mine is Source Naturals 2.5mg (I take two). It has 335 mcg of B-6 as well (there are those B vitamins again... love them). It doesn't say anything about extended release. I am going to look into it and probably try this one to see if there is a difference. Thanks again.
I also believe Rutin is a great flavonoid to make blood vessels stronger yet more subtle. When I worked at Alt Med we did lots of IV drips for different cocktails. When patients veins were weak and blowing out they were put on Rutin 500mg 2 times a day. Usually in 10 days to 2 weeks veins improved significantly. It’s also good for. Varicose veins and broken capillaries.
FYI, I also take a B-complex, NAC, Quercetin, zinc, D3/K2, and a vitamin C/probiotic fruit, veg, probiotic blend (Garden of Life Vitamin Code Raw Vitamin C). It also helps to eat right with as organic/Non-GMO and whole foods as possible. Real coffee and good water don't hurt either...
need to have meds made here in the event of another man made pandemic (just found out a lab in the Netherlands is right now working on gain of function on Avian Influenza) or other catastrophe. self reliance is the name of the game.
I'm hopeful that RFKjr will look into the gain-of-function labs in the U.S. Actually check out all the labs as there are likely some that are looking into who knows what!
I agree. I want to know what they did with all the deadly organisms from Plum Island in NY. They closed it down so where did all the viral/bacterial organisms go?
And unfortunately that means Trump needs to court Pfizer and the like. People think he’s doing it because it’s about vaccines. It’s not. It’s about the antibiotics and such. It’s going to be really hard to have to work with murderers. I wish we could promote a pharmacological company that wasn’t complicit in Covid. 🙄 are there any???
This is true. But when we when we need good, valid life saving medicines, who do we trust? How do we get back there and away from the evil that is in the new medicines?
Of course. But when medicine IS needed (and sometimes it just is regardless our stellar life choices,) we need to be able to trust how it is made and by who. Not all medicines are unnecessary, they are just not needed as a preventative of any kind, or as a first line of treatment.
we were sold reliance on an Information Economy (even as education was eroded), an Entertainment Economy, a Porno Economy, Pro Sports, Vacations, Eco-Green Energy, a Pharma-biotech-medical care economy, all manner of FAKE things to "produce" and insatiably consume unto death and be the "leaders" on, while we imported inferior items from afar off and paid to offshore everything too-- to raise our stock market and enjoy the "increases" in mutual funds.. even while MORE inflation and MORE multi-levelled Govt. Grifting ensued, and 8 in 10 American children faced "food insecurity" or whatever. This Country (The System MADE by and For the Elitist Immoral Progressive Public-Private Partnership swapping Community) has SUCKED for a LONG TIME, and why wouldn't it really, it was designed to make us global leaders via our National Prostitution.
Stupidest, most vile and idiotic episode of The Office ever...where Oscar tries to explain to Michael how China is NOT a threat and how ignorant everyone who thinks that way is. Emblematic of how idiot American consumer/voters are played by the makers of their "entertainment"
The meds and medical devices produced in other countries is especially concerning, especially since many are produced in China. I've seen photos of the conditions of some of these production facilities - yuck.
And as bad as Covid was and still is, it certainly opened a lot of doors for positive results. None of what is happening would’ve been possible without Covid. Wars generally result in great change. Covid was war and it’s allowing great change.
For example, the US has a floor price on sugar. I'm not a fan of sugar, but this is why high fructose corn syrup is used in US products instead of sucrose from cane. World price of sugar is lower than the US minimum.
Candy companies moved to Canada to buy sugar at the world price.
Ethanol for gasoline can't be imported from Brazil that make their ethanol from cane.
Maybe tariffs will work this out, but the US needs to stop subsidizing ag products, too.
Totally agree. I am from a family of decades of farming. Get rid of the USDA… they have multiple employees per farmer and of course food stamps and such come from the USDA. Get rid of all the subsidies and let the market take care of itself. And get rid of all foreign-owned property. Smithfield farms, once an American family owned company, is now owned by China….mass producing pork and hurting the small farmer. I would guess (and I don’t know for a fact), that nearly all the pork in the stores is from Smithfield. Sad. And if you are unlucky enough to be in the area where their confinement operations are, you’ll know it as soon as you take a breath! It reeks! Very unhealthy too….and cattle raised the same way are also not good for us….especially if they start using the chemical in feed to reduce methane. Ha! The global warming clowns I’m sure are all for it.
I agree, Grammy. The USDA is not the farmer's friend. They also seem to have no problems with allowing any chemical sprayed on the food we eat, to the detriment of the farmer and the consumer. Like the FDA, they serve the corporations and not the individuals.
I'm a big fan of pork but I don't support the way many hogs live the bulk of their lives in areas they can barely turn around in. I would imagine the stress that causes doesn't contribute to a high quality meat plus it's cruel.
True, but industrial dairy is as bad or worse. The cows are sick and dying... and live around a third of the time pastured cows do... they load them up with hormones, antibiotics and steroids... which DO get into their milk.
I will never drink store-brand milk again... and most "organic" brands are NOT healthy either... some research required... the good stuff is VERY expensive.
SevenSons.net is a family owned organic regenerative farm that raises pigs on pasture and sells online. Wellness Meats is another place we've ordered meat.
When was Smithfield family owned? Growing up, we got feeder pigs from them. They were massive then and this was 30 years ago. It may beg what "family owned" means??
Yes, get rid of them. Used to work for them and they are full of rot. Only lasted 3 years there bc I cold not stand the people I worked with or what USDA stood for. Corrupt beyond compare.
I have read (can’t remember where) that they were going to start putting it in livestock feed. The best we can do for ourselves is to buy from local organic gardeners and farmers. It’s more expensive, but “ pay me now, or pay me later”, applies here!
Simple Truth and 365 Whole foods offers organic canned corn... IF you trust them.
I found out that Albertson's/Safeway "Organics" brand EV olive oil is NOT real EV olive oil, let alone organic, so I trust nothing of that brand... most organic milk is bogus too...
I commented on this yesterday and will reiterate what my uncle used to say "The only way farmers can't make any money is if they weld their mailboxes shut".
The Chinese managed to take a loophole (the de minimus exemption) intended to facilitate small person-to-person transactions, and exploited it to create an an entire multi-billion dollar wealth extraction industry. No one "needs" the cheap crap they sell, it's not like you can buy your child's breakfast there. And virtually no Americans benefit from it beyond the $15/hour delivery guy.
The fact that this went on for so long unchallenged shows just how rotten the system is.
How about all the armchair economists (and real economists actually) wait until the tariffs show some impact before predicting doom and gloom? Will you admit you are wrong if what you predict doesn’t happen? Doubtful.
Also, you’d think American “journalists” might hope they work instead of rooting for their failure, but nah, Trump hatred trumps all.
No one knows for sure how this will play out. For all we know, every country we do business with will drop or eliminate their tariffs by the end of the week. And if we face a cost of living increase, I'm confident it won't last long.
Skepticism is fine, outright predictions of disastrous consequences or their ultimate failure are ridiculous hyperbole. And re-industrialization may be the primary goal, but it isn’t the only one. And let’s not forget that the mere threat of tariffs already resulted in commitments to reshore manufacturing by various companies. So let’s give it chance, shall we?
Johnny-O, along with others like Benjamin and Bard Joseph, hate everything. I don't think I've ever seen a positive comment out of any of them.
While your response is excellent, it's a waste of time and effort if you are trying to reach him. He'd rather wallow in his self-pity and feel sorry for himself. It's a shame as all of these guys seem pretty smart and probably could make something out of themselves if so motivated. But it's easier to just trash everything to rationalize one's own failures than act with self-control, focus, and discipline.
Are economic circumstances today the same as the 1930s? No. In some ways things are better, in others worse, so no one really knows what’s going to happen. And of course economists are engaging in ridiculous hyperbole, e.g. - Paul Krugman’s been screeching about Trump’s economic policy since 2016!
No, in the '30's we didn;t have $34 TRILLION in debt, with a one TRILLION interest expense annually and growing exponentially...
Or had our industrial base wiped out for corporate profit.
Krugman is not an economist, he is a jagoff and a faggoty ahole.
I am not saying that targeted tariffs are not a good idea when we are getting screwed, but putting in massive tariffs across the board with no mfg base and a financial system already near collapse... is dangerous... and maybe even intentional... Trump does know how to do bankruptcies...
I’m willing to see what happens before pushing the panic button. Besides, Trump doesn’t want to be known as “the president who crippled the US economy”, if tariffs starti to cause problems, he’ll back off them.
You're right...reindustrialization takes time. But my guess is Trump isn't looking to simply re-invigorate American industry. I go back to what Jeff pointed out in his column...we're the biggest buyer in the world. Other countries mock us for being materialists, but man do they love that we are. The big question in my mind is, will they remove their tariffs (or lower prices) in order to stay competitive, or will they give us the middle finger, believing that we'll pay higher prices rather than denying our lust for spending? We'll soon see...
Actually, they perpetuated avian flu by culling the birds before some could gain natural immunity. They can’t contain the disease because of wild birds. Thanks to comments, addendum: who, because of natural immunity, don't die but can theoretically transmit the virus to vulnerable flocks.
Lots of BS indeed! However, since we have evidence of wild birds having the virus, I believe that they develop natural immunity (like the chickens would if they had been allowed to survive the culling), but can still carry the virus to vulnerable flocks.
Beyond cruel. I have to check the CFR, Code of Federal Regs as to my knowledge, that is not a humane way to cull livestock. Those employees of the USDA should be foamed so they know what it is liked. They make me sick. All those wonderful flocks. Now I am pissed off again......
Regarding your comments yesterday about underestimating the democrat machine, never forget that evil never sleeps. Like AI, it learns from its mistakes. Evil never changes its spots. To borrow from Dennis Michael Lynch, following the losses in Wisconsin, “Republicans love to lose.” If we ever learn from our mistake of underestimating the evil, we should become bullet proof.
There was no loss in Wisconsin, but a major steal. It’s what they do. With a record turnout, and overwhelming support for voter I’d, which shows the conservatives were out in force, and yet a super lefty judge wins a contest giving more power to the communists? I don’t think so. Now if it can be proven…
Indeed. I don’t think I ever saw a positive ad for team Brad. The opposition ran ruthless ads about him, while running ads making Crawford look like she was a dream mom and judge.
Hard to believe that reciprocal tariffs are such anathema to so many.
Or not, considering how much money was being made by fleecing America.
What may be hard to believe for the majority is how many in DC, and for how long, let the taxpayer take it in the keister while they sat by idly, while making occasional noises about costs.
Said it before, I'll say it again: Your. Government. Hates. You.
Yes, and just like "outsourcing" was a good thing. Yes, a "good thing" for the Wall Street banksters. I had a disagreement over 20 years ago with a 'Wall Street' trader/banker as he tried to explain to me how off shoring US manufacturing was good for America, as we are 'transitioning' into an 'information' economy. I simply told him that a nation is not a nation, nor sovereign if it doesn't make its products. He said that 'cheep' goods are good for the consumer and good for 'business'.... He was making too much money off of the fleecing of America to remember that he was an American first and that you NEVER sell out your Constitution and country... if you are a real American.
Yep, and if you look at the geriatric bunch infesting Congress that have morbidly obese bank accounts, you can see the results of selling out America for their own power and financial gain... NAFTA, TPP... Remember Clinton and Co selling our satellite and missile tech to China?
Several years ago on the sharks tank, Kevin O’Leary kept telling people who wanted to make things in America. He wouldn’t invest in them if they didn’t send it overseas because of cost. I was so mad. I shut it off and never watched that show again but now he’s sure changed his tune!
And now Kevin is supposedly on 'our' side (at least saying the right things) ... I never watched the shark tank show, but I have seen him now a few times on Gutfeld's show. Sounds like I wasn't missing anything. I would have turned it off too!
It’s because the media the liberals listen to always leaves out the word ‘reciprocal’ in order to make Trump look like a bully to suit their narrative. It’s the same thing with always leaving out the word ‘illegal’ when talking about immigrants we need to deport.
Yes, in fact “reciprocity“ was written into the law 50 years ago or more – – but US trade negotiators ignored it. Reagan made some efforts to support the heartland with individual restrictive trade actions, but most of the “store“ was given away by State dept Representatives in the 1950s and 1960s to help Europe. Low tariffs in America made life marvelous for US investors in Europe. And then we baked the lack of reciprocity into the “unfair”international system 30 years years ago, that included significant restrictions by other countries while we were open. Trump was right in 2016 – – we had wimpy negotiators afraid to get back to the basics.
First, I will second the other comment, up early. Can't remember when the C&C memo arrived so early my computer.....
Second: I am old enough now that I remember when Sam Walton and Walmart advertised "Made in America" Then Nixon visited China, Sam passed away and the family opened the flood gates to cheap goods along the way to building one of the largest retail companies in the world. I, also in retail, used to shake my heads, watching American workers flock to Walmart to buy their cheap goods while at the same time killing their jobs. When one looks now at what is actually made in the US, it's depressing. We used to make quality TV's, stereo's, etc. find an electronic item made in the US today. The only way that a person can buy an electronic component is from a Chinese exporter (Amazon, etc). What is particularly galling to me is the dominance of DJI not just from a security issue but from technological advancement. My hobby is photography, and there is one company that makes outstanding tripods, bullheads and other accessories,, that professionals use. They have been challenged by the cheap imitations from China that Amazon sells. I agree with Trump, enough is enough. Let's make some US products again.
I was always an admirer of ZeroHalliburton aluminum luggage. During the pandemic, I was able to purchase one of the last suitcases that were still made in the US.
In my email correspondence with the company, I asked if the new suitcases were still made in the US because the newer models did not have the "Made in the US" label inside of them.
Received a word salad response from the company that now they are made in China under "strict quality standards."
I am waiting to see if these returning manufacturers can actually find people who WANT TO WORK ... Look at the current labor force...they all found side hustles that pay them enough to continue their lackadaisical lifestyles. So many have given up on being able to buy a house, or even start a family (unless they're entrenched in the Welfare Pipeline). We gotta rediscover that good old Protestant Work Ethic (no disrespect to all non-Protestants out there!).
Yes and the ticks hiding in tall grasses. I do enjoying my c&c for the writing style, as well as the information. The comparisons and descriptions make complex situations easier to understand and remember.
Yes. And I've given that a lot of thought and I don't think a coy would even feel it unless you got him in the face with cooling flying hot water. But if you could carry a boilng pot AND get him to hold still for it...
This may have been 'instant' but is still a long term play. Jobs didn't go overseas overnight and it will be years before the transformation is complete. Meanwhile we have a populace that has the attention span of a 30 second you tube clip. I've been out knocking doors for our upcoming school board race in nice weather with homes with the windows open, letting that pot smoke waft out the windows. HS are graduating too many kids who are addicted to their phones, can barely read and have ambitions to be social media influencers. Our labor force participation rate is ~62% if the BLS is to be trusted. Glad to see the jobs coming back, but we have to be able to fill them, and for many skilled positions, that is already a struggle. Too many see the welfare state as compassion, an approval for disability as the grand prize and a job they have to go to every day, on time, and actually work as oppression. I hope I'm wrong, and DO truly appreciate Trump's moves on this. But we have to change the CULTURE, not just the trade deals.
Exactly. It's a huge uphill battle to get our populace ready to work again like we did in the 50s. It will almost take a big war or a major depression to shake everyone out of their stoned, virtual reality existence.
I remember when our son was going to college in Pittsburg KS (graduated in 2019), we bought a small home to rent to him and his room-mates that we fixed up and sold when he graduated. Talking to a handyman we hired, said he could grow his biz if he could find competent help, but couldn't - also had a medical transport biz and that applicants HAD to pass a drug test, and he complained that the many of the applicants and randomly tested employees failed the tests. Pittsburg is a microcosm of a lot of small towns - median income ~40K and ~30% below the poverty line. Other than the university and a handful of manufacturing plants, not a lot of economic opportunity and a lot of drug problems. Pretty sure the house across the street was a drug house. Cars coming and going all day long.
Get rid of most welfare programs (except for the most profound physical and mental disabilities), and people will be forced to have a work ethic. And enforce criminal vagrancy laws so it’s not easy to live/camp on the streets. Also, many people deemed “disabled” are able to do lots of things.
Yes, we passed the ADA decades ago to accommodate disabilities and yet the number collecting disability just keeps growing. Know many work under the table. Our neighbor was given disability as she was an accountant and back problems meant she could not sit for long periods of time. But runs a thriving Etsy business out of her home, and sure she doesn't report the income.
You are right, Americans have been intentionally de-skilled and depressified. Watch the obamas documentary on Netflix about the Chinese takeover of a plastics factory in the south. They brought in Chinese workers who would comply with dangerous working conditions and noncompliance with environmental regulations. This is what we will be faced with. Will we really build back better or just move Chinese oppression here?
Oh not just Chinese. The slaughterhouses have been packed to the gills with legal or illegal immigrants for decades. I remember reading about a school district in rural KS (Dodge City) where teachers are faced with kids speaking over a dozen different languages due to the meatpacking industry in that town. My sister lives in rural Alabama where there are a lot of chicken processing plants and said she feels like she is in another country when she goes to Wal-Mart - and all this was BEFORE the 4 years of open borders. I ran a mfg assn for 11 years (08-19) and many of our members were freaking out over demographics - some plants had as much as 50% of their workforce being boomers, and little to no pipeline of skilled hires from the millennial generation, and poaching from each other was the main path to finding skilled talent. A good maintenance person could get 6 figures easy. My son (almost 30) is a production manager and he is the first to call out his own generation and favors hiring older workers who still have a work ethic. One plant in my association was over 40% Hmong immigrants (legal, they are a defense contractor) as they hired a few who then recommended friends and family - not dangerous jobs but non glamourous assembly jobs that required a lot of attention to detail. Said the Hmong workers were diligent, showed up every day and did not complain about every little thing. Sad commentary - turning the ship is going to take some time if it's not already too late.
I think you are right and the power idiots faced with this situation of their own creation want to fix it by killing the de-skilled useless eaters and bring in foreigners who will not object and are by necessity survivors. After a couple generations they too will become useless and need to be replaced. Rinse and repeat.
Yes, immigrants built the railroads in the 1800's, filled the sweatshops at the turn of the century and have propped up ag and meat processing for decades more recently. Too many Americans have discovered the wonders of the so-called safety net where it is more lucrative to not work.
American workers, my intelligent white Christian character, good servants and dependable, have been used at the work places, honestly they were. Also my friends kids who never took off a day unless they were sick and seldom were, worked with intense migraines many days, were trustworthy enough that they had business keys and entry codes but didn't get raises after years and new hirelings were brought in with larger incomes. Dei hires can't be removed now. And we in Illinois are still in the Biden ages because the #fatman is sitting on us.
True, incomes/pay have NOT kept up for a long time. I blame H1B visas, illegals, and too many people trapped in crappy jobs as they don't have FU money so stick with jobs with perceived security over taking a risk. I know many who took the jabs to keep jobs they could not afford to quit - in debt up to their eyeballs -student loans, car payments, mortgage, credit cards....I also know a few who did quit, and all are now doing better than they were before - jab mandate forced them to look for new opportunities that ended up being better than their old jobs.
Exactly my hubby! He told me at the 11th hour, he would just have to get it to save his job I said you will absolutely not! So he lost his job a few months later he got a job job doing the same thing less stressful, enjoys it more. It was a huge blessing now we’re on the edge of the doge knife. We will see. He hasn’t qualified for any of the offers because of not enough time at job.
I have to wonder if some of this pushback on DOGE is really pushback against the ever more rapid change. Not just in DOGE (which is necessary as one, Elon can't do this forever, and 2, trying to get ahead of the deep state before they organize resistance) but in so many facets of life. Covid upended all of our lives in one way or another and rather than promote 'return to normal' we were hit with a barrage of 'new normal'. Most of us are powerless to stop the freight train barreling at us - "we" (as in everyone) can try to learn to adapt on the fly, or we can key Teslas and rage post about Elon and/or Trump.
Thanks RL! Jeff has been running later on his stacks and usually by the time they run I am in the middle of other things and end up reading C&C at night. At that point I figure commenting is probably useless as most seem to read in the morning.
Yes, I have been on plant tours of the some of the tier 2 automotive suppliers and they are highly automated. However - the robots break. They need to be programmed. Materials have to be managed/ordered/paid for. Logistical schedules, even if automated, still need human eyes to make adjustments for contingencies. Humans have to interface with/serve/land customers. All jobs the average person stumbling out of a HS is not remotely qualitied for. And automation is great for large low value and some high value production runs but it's not 'there' yet for more variable customized products that run in smaller batches due to set up and changeover costs. My son works for a plastics manufacturer where they make water bottles, milk bottles, etc. Highly automated but still need people to set up runs, test incoming raw materials to make sure they are to spec, monitor quality (even with automation stuff still screws up), program. do maintenance, load trucks with the proper order quantities, etc.
So I did a couple fast and dirty searches and just took the AI results. Per your comment that the average high school grad isn't ready for even smaller manufacturing needs: it is projected that by 2030 there will be a shortfall of around 2.1 million factory workers (of approximately 215 million working age Americans, circa 2020). The manufacturing reshoring is in automotive (EV production and battery cell manufacture), semiconductor companies, pharma, and plastics. The expertise needed is: statisticians, data scientists, logisticians, engineers, computer and information systems managers, software developers, and industrial maintenance technicians. The older workers are retiring and the younger ones apparently don't find manufacturing jobs all that attractive (said the AI), so in order to be more appealing and boost worker productivity manufacturers are relying on AI, digital twinning, the internet of things (IoT), and automated dashboards. So you are right: highschool grads aren't going to cut it unless specialized programs are offered, probably sort of like with the trades. But, something to notice maybe is that these jobs are rather like many that the current laptop class perform. Or, perhaps a better analogy would be those employed in the Victorian textile mills? I think my point is that the human element will continue to be reduced as much as possible.
Agree that current manufacturing is much less labor intensive, but it is also not monolithic, there is tremendous variation within the industry.
About 10 years ago there was a large Deloitte study on the topic of future employment needs in manufacturing. One of the data points was a survey of parents of HS students, and at that time, 70% of parents said they would discourage their child from going into manufacturing, as 'we don't make things in this country any more' and 'they are dead end jobs'. Far from true, but the industry does not do a good job of promoting the opportunities.
How's this for irony? The announced Declaration of Economic Independence and its natural abbreviation?
DEI...!
Oh my! Now that's a DEI I can get behind!
re: "That is why foreign governments, corporate media, and the parasite class are howling. The postwar free ride is over. The host finally vomited up the parasite. And the Bretton Woods era is finally finished."
In one hour, President Trump did more to restore the power of this country TO ITS PEOPLE than the blood sucking leeches did the last 5 decades to destroy it.
Jeff, thank you for taking the time to lay it out in clearly digestible format, even for the howling Portlanders and their ilk. I carefully listened to the entire speech, everyone should. Find it here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QbDphSyfYXM
A suggestion: Bookmark Jeff's excellent explanation of what our Great POTUS (and his excellent team) just did and send it to every sniveling, whining global marxist, every uniparty member ("our" democrat and RINO "representatives") and corrupt deep state scum bag (all who have massively profited from the grift), all the Wall Street and K Street grifters and all the indoctrinated servants who have profited from the despicable decline of the American people. Tell them to read it and get back to you if they need any clarification. Tell them you support the POTUS 100%. Put Jeff's great explanation to work.
I was also listening to Bannon's War Room on Real America's Voice yesterday, he and his guests were also breaking it down and he was talking about how 2 April should be the next American holiday for the Declaration of Economic Independence - yes, it's that important. Obviously not right away, but when every American fully realizes the benefit of what POTUS did for them.
Do not forget, we are in a fight with a hateful, resentful and determined group of enemies who do not want a strong, successful America. We must be the last ones standing, they are not going to just roll over.
Just watched this, and have to share it because it helps explain things. Don't know who this woman is, but man did she just lay down - in 2 short mins - a whole lot of facts and truth to reprobate Maher: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/eB2Gz06CKIo
re: egg prices
Let's not forget how we got to the super high prices of eggs. Massive printing of dollars (causing grotesquely high inflation ON EVERYTHING) under the treasonous, un-elected and completely corrupt biden administration and his equally corrupt HHS and Dep of Ag., who forced the killing of over 60 MILLION egg laying chickens so they could drive the prices up (basic supply and demand) and claim another created health crisis: bird flu. And then try to dump it all in President Trump's lap.
Not to quibble, and I don't have the data in front of me, but I'm pretty sure 100+ million birds were culled while biden was 'in charge'
Hi NeoBob,
You may be correct in the total. I was only referring to the last murderous, and completely unnecessary, event.
Also not to quibble, but the first massive printing of dollars - the PPP and the EIP - took place under and by Trump.
That is such utter and complete horse dung. Vote for obama and biden did you? You had to have, to have such a convoluted, misinformed, lack of understanding of history. And of government financing, which comes from the house and the senate. Not so great, andrew.
The PPP was enacted in the Spring of 2020. Who the fck do you think was POTUS in Spring 2020?
The first (and maybe second) EIP was done in 2020. Trump even put his signature on the notice accompanying the checks. Couldn't've done that if he weren't president.
Funding comes from Congress, but the president signs the legislation, genius. The president was Trump in ALL of 2020.
The only horse dung in this thread is your brain.
Let's see your intellectual chops. Here's what I wrote:
"...the first massive printing of dollars...took place under and by Trump"
Now:
1. What is convoluted about that?
2. What is misinformed about that?
3. What understanding of history is lacking in that?
I'll say it again: the only horse dung in this thread is your brain.
Dan, So, is Andrew the Great factually wrong about Trump's massive printing of dollars?
It currently takes until September to turn a profit in business, looking forward to a much yuge-er quicker turn!
Now that POTUS has leveled the playing field for hardworking, innovative Americans, I expect you shall.
That Bill Maher piece was a great clip. I urge everyone to watch it.
It *is* morning in America indeed!
Bravo, President Trump. Keep proving me wrong about you.
Yeah, I couldn’t not share it when I saw it, that woman was ALL OVER IT! And PROUD of you for having the courage to admit you were wrong about President Trump. Every single person, like you, and her, who comes on board the restoration of America, will make it more and more difficult for the enemy to win.
I think she was full of crap. She is still wrong about President Trump.
I accept you have an alternative opinion.
I'd like to think she is a lunatic on the mend.
where can I find the Bill Maher clip?
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/eB2Gz06CKIo
As you watch it, keep in mind she is a confirmed leftist... who is beginning to be un-confirmed! She's beginning to get it even if some of her "facts" are not quite right. :-)
Thank you, Awesome, her explanation in a few seconds is the best I've ever heard! now I'm waiting for Bill Maher's dinner with President Trump.
HAPPY EVERYDAY LIBERATION DAY FROM NOW ON AND ALL OTHERS CAN SUCK IT!!!!
I am 100% behind celebrating our Declaration of Economic Independence!
Now can we get rid of Juneteenth?
I sure wish we could. Creating a completely unnecessary and divisive "holiday" based on a ridiculous notion, did not serve the country well. But then, it's purpose was to further hurt the country.
I would be happy to lose that woman's support, whoever she is, once she is disabused of her false understanding of MAGA and social conservatism. Trump has not "sidelined" social conservatives. I would wager that a majority of commenters to this site would identify as "social conservatives." Trump is not "for" abortion up until 12 weeks. He realizes that in the extremely degraded state of American culture that there is no way to win a national election and support total abortion ban. If pro lifers want to live in a country where they are free to ply their trade of pregnancy crisis centers, anti abortion counseling, and simply praying en masse outside abortion clinics, Trump and MAGA are the only ones who will protect their right to do whatever it takes to restore our culture to a state that properly values life and authentic human dignity. As we see in Europe, the Left is radically anti Christian. Trump supports people who carry their faith forward into the public square and the public policy arena. Finally, he is not "pro gay." I'm not sure if he would support overturning Obergefell, but I sincerely doubt that Pride flags will be flown outside of U.S. Embassies during the Trump administration.
I agree with your comments... but converting delusional lunatics does not happen overnight. She's beginning to see the light and I encourage her continued growth. She and I don't have to violently agree but the fact she is moving is good, don't you think?
DEI used to mean Didn’t Earn It. Now it’s Definitely Earned It:)
much preferable to the DEI that sneaks up behind you.
Like!
Righteeo!! 🤣🤣😂🤩
I bet they did that on purpose. Taking back the language!
That would be right on par for Trump... details, details, details.
Ain't it great?
Can we have the rainbow back while we’re at it?!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YmJIccPWnEk
Yes!!
like the fraud that DOGE has exposed, Trump has exposed the scam of Globalism - we all knew that the situations were less than ideal, but really had no idea of the sheer magnitude of the fraud and corruption in both situations and the facts show that the entire system was corrupt and needed to be blown up - and btw Globalism is more than just a money scam - it is communism dressed up with a fancy name which always seeks the lowest common denominator by tearing down successful people/countries to create "equality", except of course for the elite rulers
GO MAGA, GO DOGE, MAKE THE ELITES CHOKE ON THEIR FAT TONGUES. BLESSED LIBERATION DAYS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Excellent William. I'd go one step further and say it is tyrannical dictatorship and total subjugation of the masses. The CCP is the model the global marxists desperately want to impose on the world.
I know I’ve talked about this before, but a few years ago, I had a discussion with a guy (an American) who worked for an NGO in China. He tried to tell me that China is not a communist country. He was an idiot.
That's Hilarious GL.
His name wasn't, by chance, Tim Walz was it??? LOL
No. Luckily, I don’t live anywhere near him. (Grin) But the dude was seriously delusional.
Amen!!!!👍👍👍
Now if we could only get them to stop spraying in our skies! Representative Kevin Steele sponsored House Bill 477 (HB 477) as a companion to Senator Ileana Garcia's Senate Bill 56 (SB 56), which aims to prohibit geoengineering and weather modification activities in Florida. However, Governor Ron DeSantis criticized HB 477, stating that it "gutted" Garcia's measure and would "actually codify the practice of geoengineering and weather modification."
Contact Information for Representative Kevin Steele:
Phone: (850) 717-5055 Email: https://www.flhouse.gov/Sections/Representatives/contactmember.aspx?MemberId=4881
"The postwar free ride is over. The host finally vomited up the parasite." And that's not me getting choked up and crying tears of relief in my coffee with the dream that my kids might actually have a chance to live better than I did in the 80s, and maybe, even hopefully better than my mom and dad did in the 1950's. Hope. It's what's for dinner.
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Pretty funny stuff, but now that's a hated acronym. I suppose though, that stealing what DEI means and stands for and gradually shifting it is pretty clever.
It's what the progressives did with all of our words, gay used to mean happy, now it's a bad word, illegal immigrant is now newcomer, homeless is unhoused, they just keep shifting the platform under our feet, time to return the favor.
George Carlin's bit on "euphemisms" covers this well.
@Chriss- many words have been perverted over the centuries. Dumb means can't speak but turned into 'stupid'. Retarded means slowed (still used in the mechanical world) but it'll get you thrown into Facebook jail for 30 days. My mother lived on Dyke Street in my hometown. I was on a FB page talking about it and got thrown into Zuckjail for using the word Dyke. Yep. Lotsa words.
That is true.
Pusillanimous!!
LOL! That is hilarious.
Doge Educating Imbeciles
Ironically, Google is being sued for allegedly discriminating against men. An unnamed boss at the company is accused of systematically favoring women for promotion.
I noticed that too! :-)
I'm almost certain it's "intentional" irony, Andrew!
That had to be intentional
@Andrew- PERFECTION!!!!!!! You win today's interwebs!
"So far, we’ve learned there are (at least) two different ways the swarms of globalist mosquitos have been parasitically draining our essence."
Now do international disaster relief.
It may soon be known as FUBAR.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x0alGvV0Sjc
Ohhhh SNAP! good one!
But refuse godless myths fit only for old women. On the other hand, train yourself for the purpose of godliness, for bodily training is only of little profit, but godliness is profitable for all things, since it holds promise for the present life and also for the life to come. It is a trustworthy saying and deserving full acceptance. For it is for this we labor and strive, because we have fixed our hope on the living God, who is the Savior of all men, especially of believers.
— 1 Timothy 4:7-10 LSB
Amen Janice…good reminder that that enjoying economic success without keeping the Creator at the center is the path to idolatry and eventual national destruction. America is truly the city on a hill providing light and inspiration to a benighted world as long as our societal mind remains fixed on those things that glorify God. May the Lord richly bless you today, and every day dear sister, with sweet fellowship with the Father.
Amen. The living God is the only immovable foundation.
And thank you. Blessings to you as well, Dean.
Yes Dean, keeping Jesus at the center and keep our eyes open and stay on guard because the devil is crafty while we enjoy some respite.
I say Jesus because others say god but it is not our God they refer to.
Our money says in God we trust with the eye of horus and you can't serve 2 masters. That shows me what God they serve.
I ask God everyday to steer the new admin and all who work in it to keep God at its center. Bring God back into America, at its very core and we will reap goodness and mercy!!!!! May God protect our President and admin!!!! Go God, go Trump, Go MAHA and Go Doge!!!! Happy Liberations Days ahead!!!!
Please pray about this too! I agree with you 100% If we could get them (Federal Government or military or some other secret entity to stop spraying in our skies, we would also be better off. Representative Kevin Steele sponsored House Bill 477 (HB 477) as a companion to Senator Ileana Garcia's Senate Bill 56 (SB 56), which aims to prohibit geoengineering and weather modification activities in Florida. However, Governor Ron DeSantis criticized HB 477, stating that it "gutted" Garcia's measure and would "actually codify the practice of geoengineering and weather modification."
Contact Information for Representative Kevin Steele:
Phone: (850) 717-5055 Email: https://www.flhouse.gov/Sections/Representatives/contactmember.aspx?MemberId=4881
Thanks for this post CS!
These are the committee members it is with now, please click on their profiles and send them a message saying you share the Governor's opinion about this bill, and would like the House bill to match the Senate bill SB 56: https://www.flhouse.gov/Sections/Committees/committeesdetail.aspx?CommitteeId=3302&_gl=1*15yjvdt*_gcl_au*MTMzOTY5ODc1OC4xNzQzNzcwNjY1
https://www.flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2025/477
That god seems to be Osiris
AKA Nimrod, who wanted to invade heaven and kill YHWH.
Amen!
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I read the CNN egg story looking for the "catch," too. I think they meant it to be this: "Price increases for eggs may have slowed but are still historically high." Only CNN could call a 50% drop in prices "a slowing of price increases." SMH!
If there was a democrat president and by some universe shift egg prices dropped, you can bet the media would fawn all over the D.
When mother’s couldn’t get formula for their infants no one said anything about Biden being too mentally compromised to handle that crisis. But let inconsequential prices of eggs go up or down they continue to blame Trump for that! Talk about schizophrenia in the left!?!
I hope Team Kennedy at HHS will get baby formula fixed.
The ingredients are pretty low grade compared to mother's milk.
I worked in an Alt Med clinic, had twin infants come in, one was allergic to formula, wasn’t thriving like other twin. The dr told mom, get fresh goat’s milk, it’s the closest to mother’s breast milk. Problem solved!!
Love goat kefir on berries ! The best 😋
Yeah. No problem. Everyone has access to Fresh goat's milk.
🤭 I love milking goats. No one thinks they want goats milk. But kids love it. 😁
The canned version works well too.
Well it was in Alabama and yes it was available.
The Food Babe showed the ingredients in the best-selling baby formula- horrifying! I’m glad she’s shining the spotlight on that concoction of mainly added sugars.
check out Mamavation as well as EWG.org.
Jenny McCarthy uses EWG guidelines in her makeup brand Formless Beauty. She is great...
I agree, obviously there are times when there is no other choice but breast milk has benefits that formula can’t hope to ever replicate and formula has dangers (contamination, like the melamine a few years ago) that breast milk doesn’t have.
Concerted effort in the sixties to encourage formula feeding instead of breast milk. World elitists no doubt.
As far back as the 50’s.
Joe Rogan recently had a guest explaining all the garbage in baby formula - I think it was Dr. Suzanne Humphries. I understand that often there is no other option - so I'm not hating here. Nice to know goat's milk is an option!
Goat milk is not the only option. You can make your own formula and not buy the garbage they sell. Look up Weston Price foundation for info. I prepared formula for my son using their recipe and he is a thriving healthy 17-yr old.
BFM, I hereby vouch for the containers of mother's milk.
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Ugh, I still remember that, and remember thinking that the headlines should have read: “Historic crisis: Women’s breasts no longer work, infants malnourished!”
NEVER FORGET!
Remember when they crowed over our 18-cent savings on our 4th of July BBqs?
Funny CNN never used that philosophy when it came to explaining Biden’s inflation numbers.
Fake news is gonna fake news.
Right?? 🤔😑
The funny thing is when democrats increase spending by 100% then cut it back by 10% they say "Look! We helped you out by cutting our spending by 10%".
Exactly 😡
Same thing they do with inflation and the deficit. Word games.
And changing the definitions.
Remember, elected politicians and their media puppets call a decrease of an increase in spending, say taking a 5% increase down to a 4% increase, a cut in spending.
Tariffs are the best solution to reindustrialization, restoring the middle and working classes, helping small businesses, restoring America’s traditional high quality of workmanship, and finally getting rid of income taxes. There have been only 3 presidents who can be called founding presidents: Washington, Lincoln, and Trump. The courage of this man to remake the country is something we won’t see again for another century.
TARIFF BABY TARIFF!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! YAHOO, HURRAY, YIPPEE, BEST DAYS ARE STILL AHEAD!!!
IKR? It's simply amazing that we finally have a president willing to do the work.
"getting rid of income taxes". "Founding president" Lincoln implemented America's first federal income tax.
That fascist generally shredded the Constitution, which allowed States to secede based on the p
guarantee of freedom of association. Of course, forcing some of the States to stay in the room until they signed the Constitution in the first place also violated the principle.
Lincoln a fascist? The word hadn't even been invented yet, but whatever. Where on earth did the idea come from that the Constitution allowed states to secede? No such thing existed. And still doesn't. There is a process for becoming a state, but not to leave the Union. When the Confederate states seceded, they did so unconstitutionally. Lincoln said as much. Also, please check Article I, section 9 of the Constitution which reads: "The Privilege of the Writ of Habeas Corpus shall not be suspended, unless when in Cases of Rebellion or Invasion the public Safety may require it." If one accuses Lincoln of "shredding" the Constitution, it should be noted that his abrogations were constitutional in light of the "Rebellion."
The concept goes back to ancient Rome. Freedom of Association is absolutely a foundational principle in the Constitution. And let's not forget another bedrock, Habeas Corpus, with which Lincoln dispensed entirely- not that he was unique in using the Constitution to wipe his backside. Three out of the four 1798 Alien & Sedition Acts were also unconstitutional (with a new admin they were quickly struck down).
Do not ask me for sources, I'm not your secretary, so DYOR!!! And actually read the Constitution along with the various documentation of the associated argumentation. It's terrifying that you do not know that Freedom of Association was & is foundational to the United States!
Also, insisting on your right of home state rule (the Federal Government originally conceived as limited to regulation between States & providing common defense) is rebellion against illegitimate tyranny. And the only invasion was of the Southern States by Lincoln.
Also, insisting on your right of home state rule (the Federal Government originally conceived as limited to regulation between States & providing common defense) is rebellion against illegitimate tyranny. And the only invasion was of the Southern States by Lincoln.
The right to leave the union was very well discussed and agreed upon with the founding fathers. It’s not debatable. It’s a shame that part of our history has been lost. That decision based created a hostage situation where the federal govt cannot be held accountable.
Lincoln was not the hero you think he is.
Republicans really need to stop bragging about the association
Also, insisting on your right of home state rule (the Federal Government originally conceived as limited to regulation between States & providing common defense) is rebellion against illegitimate tyranny. And the only invasion was of the Southern States by Lincoln.
Also, insisting on your right of home state rule (the Federal Government originally conceived as limited to regulation between States & providing common defense) is rebellion against illegitimate tyranny. And the only invasion was of the Southern States by Lincoln.
I’m speaking of its modern definition, not in the literal way the Romans used the word. There were no corporate entities at that time. Mussolini used the term to symbolize the cooperation between private companies and the government.
Keep your eyes on the root cause-the evil people who collected Africans and dumped them in other countries to be sold. And the evil people who actually bought them and forced them to work. Once the US got “used” to that it was very difficult to undo. But it’s done. In the US. Unfortunately slavery existence goes back a long way, and still exists today.
White were slaves too. Ask the Irish community…they got it worse than the blacks. And there was more black slave owners than whites. The black slave owners did not want slavery to go away.
Yes, in the US the Irish were badly mistreated!
The greatest injustice that the slavers perpetrated was against the Western hemisphere and its values. The African culture is profoundly at variance with the European culture. It does not value hard work and altruism and the greater good of the community. It values aquisition above all, and the culture will stop at nothing to "get" anything they want for their OWN family.
To expect "them" to acquire our culture over four hundred years after tens of thousands of years of "developing" their own is unrealistic.
No one thought this through in the 17th, 18th centuries, though, did they? So now they're "our" problem because they certainly will not go back to where they came from!
Emancipation didn't work out so well either.
Just check out violent crime, unwed motherhood, welfare abuse, education levels, DEI disasters and affirmative action stats... by race.
Those problems in the black community didn't begin to show up until LBJ in his War on Poverty made that population into wards of the state which broke up families and led to a multitude of other problems. But he did it in order to make the black community into permanent Democrat voters. That is only now beginning to change.
That was a small part of the problem...
Look up average IQ by race... for another part of it.
IQ is highly correlated with povery, food quality/quantity, schooling, two-parent families, proximity to toxins, etc. Race has nothing to do with IQ.
Taxpayer —Lincoln was killed in 1865 and the federal income tax was ordered in 1913 by Woodrow Wilson.
so I guess it’s wrong to say Lincoln started the income tax .
https://constitutioncenter.org/blog/say-happy-birthday-to-the-first-income-tax
And then it was abandoned, actually struck down by SCOTUS in 1895, until the Constitution was amended in 1913 by progressives (who else?) who thought the amendment was only applicable to the wealthiest Americans. They had decided that without an income tax, America would create an untouchable class of elites who wouldn't need to work and would inherit their wealth. How'd THAT work out? In WW2, the decision was made to collect the income tax before workers ever saw their paycheck. It was meant to be temporary, but here we are. And now most wealthy people don't pay it due to all the loopholes. Lincoln meant it only as a war time measure. So why is Lincoln a "founding" president? Because he took on slavery and should be credited with finally ending it.
I strongly disagree that “Lincoln took on slavery”, that’s the HS textbook of history which is most often incorrect.
I am not presuming to argue that Lincoln was alone in taking on slavery as an issue since there had been an ongoing fight over it since the founding. At first the hope was that political compromise would work, but it didn't, and groups (usually Christian women in the North) began demanding its end. Lincoln could see perfectly well that the nation could not survive with two separate labor systems in place. It's difficult to argue, though, that he did not lead the nation into finally ending slavery. Leadership matters. Please reread his Gettysburg Address.
He didn't give a shit about them & wanted to ship them all back to Africa. During General Sherman's terror campaign, quaintly & propagandistcally referred to in the official narrative as his "March to the Sea,' thousands of freed slaves with nowhere to go & nothing to eat (because their homes & crops were burned right along with their masters') started following in the wake of the Union Army. And instead of helping the people they claimed to be "freeing," they turned on the helpless column and
SLAUGHTERED them. You need to put down your little book of fairy tales & find actual primary sources from BOTH sides of the conflict. The South was well on their way to freeing their own slaves for economic reasons when the tyrant invaded. Even William Wilberforce in Britain was more motivated by economics than by ethics- industrialization was making traditional slavery too expensive. Of course, you probably have no idea that many northern wage slaves of the same era, who also worked as entire families, were not free to leave their employers either once they were inevitablely indebted to the company store.
*...wage slaves of the same era, who also worked...*
Substack APP, get an edit button already!
" My paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union, and is not either to save or to destroy slavery. If I could save the Union without freeing any slave I would do it, and if I could save it by freeing all the slaves I would do it; and if I could save it by freeing some and leaving others alone I would also do that" --Lincoln's letter to Horace Greeley https://www.abrahamlincolnonline.org/lincoln/speeches/greeley.htm
In other words, any means to an end. And by the time of the Emancipation Proclamation, he saw what his mission was: to end slavery, as he said in his letter above as one of his options. It was a founding moment. The nation's best and most respected historians rank the presidents. Lincoln has for years been in the #1 spot. Criteria are achievements and leadership qualities.
Also, insisting on your right of home state rule (the Federal Government originally conceived as limited to regulation between States & providing common defense) is rebellion against illegitimate tyranny. And the only invasion was of the Southern States by Lincoln.
Yeah, I can't wait for us poor middle class schmucks living paycheck to paycheck to have to pay yet even more for our goods.
Expectations are 6-12 months for stabilization. No fear.
It will be nothing compared to the past 4 years of 25% inflation, supply chain stoppage, insurance 2x increases, interest rates, multiple wars, historical illegal immigration and wealth flushed through fraudulent NGOs. We went through the last 4 years with NO payoff, only loss. There will be massive economic payoff very soon and all honest people will benefit.
The war front isn't looking too good at the moment. Factories and good production isnt going to materialize in the timeframe you suggest. A real revolutionary would take on the banking cartel and quit borrowing our own money with interest attached.
Why don’t you run for President? You have all the answers.
I’m not a billionaire puppet. If Trump were serious, he’d quite bowing down to Israel, quit record military budgets, and quit borrowing our own money with interest attached. The rest is just smoke and mirrors that you are all too happy to eat up. Trump already put us many trillion more into debt his first term in office, but I’m assuming you already forgot that in our country full of amnesia patients.
To quote Jeff Childers, "Let the man work." All is unfolding and rather quickly. You know any other president who has done this much in less than 3 months? Be patient. And stop being scared.
Oi Vey.....next..
Israel was included in the tariffs if you didn’t catch it. Would you rather him “bow down” to Hamas and Iran like Biden did?
Unfortunately we need a strong (military) budget to help end all the foreign wars Biden perpetuated, and also $ to secure our own borders and purge the invaders Biden let in. At least they are cutting a trillion of absurd spending and fraud at the same time so we can pass a real budget come Fall.
Nobody here has amnesia; we’re hopeful that a different approach will yield different results and we’re willing to give it time. Maybe you should try it!
But you are a paid bot. Daddy Soros will fund you.
Short term pain for long term gain. Suck it up buttercup.
Whole Lotta Buttercuppin Goin ON!!
That’s why Trump is pushing so hard for an across-the-board tax cut. Watch who opposes it with their usual whining about tax cuts for the rich.
Tax cuts are great, if you can afford them. We keep spending a trillion + on defense, we can't afford it. Apparently they haven't figured this out yet. Or if we continue to borrow our own money with interest attached....
Of course, you are correct. Spending has to be cut. Our Congress is pitiful.
Paid bot… at least you are consistent…hate Israel, hate Trump, hate the military, sky is falling …blah, blah, blah
Oh the irony. You morons who blindly support a genocide in Palestine, which our tax monies fund.....and our empire spread everywhere, with bases in 80-100 countries with 10s of thousands of troops at them. If YOU really supported the troops, you wouldn't support this blood ridden empire.
It actually sounds like you are the troll.
You'll be able to use the extra money you save on gas and eggs to level out and I dare say do better... Unless you're in a blue state like Illinois where the Dems are ***ing us the difference and harboring illegals who are fathering/hugging little girls.
Did you read the article?
so you are ok with the US being ripped off - tariffs for thee but not for me - guess you think USAID was doing great work as well - shouldn't you be posting on Mother Jones
Enjoy the bootlicking
Paid bot
You are a moron. I’ve been here for years. Sorry if you can’t handle any criticism of your false idol.
We all have the right to our opinions. Trump is an idol, one to be thankful for. If you choose not to be happy about what he and his cabinet are trying to do, that is your choice. As for most of us, we are smiling, its Liberation Days ahead!
Johnny, you are correct.
Strange how all the good "christians" become a pack of rabid hyenas when anyone disagrees with them.
https://www.britannica.com/topic/Smoot-Hawley-Tariff-Act
Go cry more
Be thankful you don’t live in California.
Mr. Doom and Gloom is back. Must be a bot. Always with the negative. The article said eggs were down and so was gas.
Or else he lives in Kalifornistan...🙄🙄🙄
Go cry more
Interesting discussion about tariffs yesterday on 2-Way (Halperin's YT show). Building mfg in US is a multi-year effort (say auto parts). Mfgs will just wait out Trump's term of less than 3 years. Unlikely you will see mass new mfg in US. I guess we'll see.
That only works if they can tear the presidency out of MAGAs hands. There hopefully will be another 8-12 years after Trump. The talent lined up on our side is like a candy store. The Dems have nothing to choose from - and it would take many years to gather equal talent on their side. They can hold out 3 years maybe, but I don’t think they can hold out for 8-12.
They just have to figure out how to stop Soros and his type of ilk from pouring ungodly amounts of money into terribly destructive politicians, judges, and local elected. Why no one has gone after that guy and Gates is beyond me.
I think they need to pass a law that you cannot donate money to a politician outside of your area. That would end a lot of this funding!
Yeah, make it locals that have the say for their local electeds.
This is an excellent thought. The buying (bribing) of politicians has to be stopped. Maybe no corporate donations. The Bribers will fight this tooth and nail.
I'm sure if the DOJ wanted to they could find a crime that Soros has committed. Why haven't they? There are other countries that have declared Soros a criminal, though. Can't we just turn him over to them?
Yes, Hungary is one country for certain. And isn't he Hungarian?
They were using USAID money…DNC donors are already dropping out. I don’t think they will want to put up their own funds.
Revoke the tax exempt statos of NGOs and foubdations.
I keep sending out thoughts of his death to the universe. I loathe him and his sons, who are worse than the senior soros. the only good soros is a dead soros. I know this is not nice to say but I have had it with these subhumans evil attempts and evil has to be gotten rid of.
Lori, may your prayers be amplified!
LOL, hell yes!
THIS is why we also need major election reform!
The RAT party only knows how to “….steal, kill and destroy.” They know nothing about building, whether it be a nation, an economy, a budget or a home.
They are destroyers.
The enemy within.
This is only half of the equation. The other half is corporate income tax (as well as personal income tax). I believe Trump has signaled to reduce or eliminate tax rates so he is aware.
Ask yourself, why did corporations move off-shore to begin with??? Understand, we lost our manufacturing base BECAUSE of taxes, NOT because labor was $2 cheaper overseas. They moved overseas because the income tax was little to nothing overseas. Eliminate corporate tax and the corporations will FLOOD back to this country and employment will go through the roof.
Tariffs will not drive business back to the US unless it is coupled with the elimination of income tax. Follow the money. It's easy math!
(Also, understand that corporate tax is itself a tax on the American people. It is a pass-through cost to the consumer. SO... we pay ALL the tax that is levied on the economy by the Government - ALL OF IT. As Childers says, the American people have been raped continuously since BEFORE WWII - actually since 1913, but that's another story.)
The factories moved because it was less expensive to produce overseas.
Sorry but no, that is not why they moved though we hear that explanation repeated so often it is "common knowledge."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UXppIiHq3Iw&t=6s
I lived in an upstate New York City growing up. Yes, taxes were the chief reason why most industries moved out. But heating costs in those old drafty buildings played a part also. Personnel issues factored in the equation: cars wouldn’t start on extreme cold days, more people got sick during the cold weather, school snow days left kids at home preventing moms from going to work. They could run their businesses more cheaply in warmer southern states but the BIG money was on taxes which pushed them offshore.
Environmental, labor rights, minimum wage, unions, there's a long list of costs imposed on American businesses. A lot of those costs vanish if the factory and the jobs can be "moved" to a cheaper country that doesn't have (or obey) those silly laws against polluting or exploiting wage slaves.
China, after Nixon, dismantled U.S. factories and shipped them over to China to be copied. The Chinese reversed engineered and then made many more of the same factories to employ Chinese workers in China. China can now dismantle and send a few factories back to the U.S. Quid pro quo.
Same with Vietnam, India, South Korea, Taiwan, and the rest of the "intellectual" theives of U.S. ingenuity.
They can only replicate, never innovate. I am hoping innovation comes back and thrives here.
It all depends on perception. If manufacture's abroad see 1) that the Trump counter-revolution to Commie Woke has multi-term legs, and) if they see the Woke funding mechanism destroyed, 3) and if they see the United States becomes low cost and quick implementation regulatory friendly, and 4) that the United States is low cost energy input cost of production competitive (coal, oil and gas, nuclear), and 5) becomes and remains friendly low cost environment ... then manufacturers will be tempted to see the advantages and move production over to the United States. Also, the justice system has to be restored and the monetary/financial system has to be stabilized. In short, the entire Globalist/Woke System has to be permanently dismantled. It's a tall order, but if goals are not met then the only other outcome becomes failed state status.
Other things figure in. For example, chip manufacturing from Taiwan might like to relocate to the US if the terms and business clime are favorable in order to hedge their bets against the Mainland taking over Taiwan.
The Restructure Project is a big one. It encompasses all areas of human endeavor. It complex, and in some common sense ways simple, and all at the same time.
Tariffs are far from a magical solution. In theory they could be relatively neutral (e.g. if all imports were charged roughly the same tax). In practice they are used arbitrarily to reward or punish certain nations with high or low tariffs respectively. Equivalently, high tariffs will be used to protect favored domestic producers and their employees (read, “campaign contributors”). In practice, tariffs reduce the availability of products and the end consumer pays higher prices.
I cheer for what Team MAGA hopes to do. But at the same time I'm dumstruck by the lack of elementary economic knowledge by so many people. Folks, the US faces structural issues that aren't going to vanish just because Trump imposes a 20% tariff on Flat Screen TVs from China.
Underlying cost structures: My question to the economists is - what about when cost structures in other countries are miles below the US? (Cost of a Big Mac stuff). Seeking the lower costs, won't consumers continue to buy China and Bangladesh goods for a long time, even with tariffs? Answering my own question, we probably won't see some industries onshore work again - like clothing and some foods. And our domestically sourced good's prices will increase because the US inputs are more expensive. I'm a little nervous about this transition, but maybe inflation won't increase - as the biden $6T spending spree subsides - and maybe the higher US cost structure will just backfill into the transitory biden-inflated prices we see. Result: no change in prices or really low inflation. (Please...) We don't/can't have reduced prices too much, or we get stagflation I am told, resulting in financial shrinkage.
I read this as another POV, I respect most of Eric's thinking. I'm reserving judgement as it feels a little early to celebrate yet. But I hope to!
https://ewerickson.substack.com/p/the-show-notes-trade-deficit-liberation
I guess Hoover and his Smoot-Hawley tariff disaster didn't make the cut?
As a consumer I was totally mystified that during Covid our entire import process was suddenly interrupted. The amount and types of goods we could not get was really scary. It opened my eyes to our plight as a nation of consumers not producers. Over the past 4-5 decades we had turned into a service nation, we produced nothing, right down to medication, ammunition, furniture, automobiles and much more. Is it any wonder we were being raked over the coals, thru cheaply/inferior made goods at inflated prices. We got poorer and every other country got wealthier. Heck Europe uses our military to protect their country, then charges us tariffs! The blinders are now off and I won’t go back to my apathy of “oh well” that’s the way it is!!
The VA sends me a blood pressure Rx that is made in Bangladesh.
One of the other drugs that I stopped taking was made in communist China. The original label was still on the bottle.
And people made fun of me for buying ivermectin from an online Indian pharmacy no Rx required.
Just come to TN we don’t have to have a script for Ivermectin either.
And now ivermectin may be purchases in Arkansas without a script.
Can you buy brand Ivermectin, 12mg pills 1000 for $119 in Tennessee?
I didn't think so.
Nope, they aren't reasonably priced in any state. India, where the majority are made sells them without a script.
Is the law in place? Do you know anyone who has been able to purchase it?
Jenna posted a list of TN pharmacies on her Substack a few weeks ago. Her humor is worth its weight in gold too!
Sorry for my ignorance, but who is Jenna and what is her substack, please? Thanks.
Jenna Mcarthy: https://open.substack.com/pub/jennamccarthy/p/millions-of-cribs-recalled-for-injuring?r=nl3ud&utm_medium=ios&utm_campaign=post
Jenna’s side. Jenna McCarthy. She’s hilarious.
Jenna McCarthy; I’ll see if I can find a link Roseann.
jennamccarthy@substack.com
Her post on TN pharmacies was a couple of weeks ago, I think.
Yes, mostly in compounding pharmacies
The Wellness Company by Dr. McCullough sells it too with their wellness kits.
Also, the Z-stack company of Dr. Zelensky sells a kit with IVM and various.
Do you know of any ivermectin pharmacy websites in Tenn?
I have vet ivermectin and not sure how to take. Just diagnosed with Covid. Any suggestions?
FLCCC (now IMA) has protocols with dosages. You just need to figure it out by your wieght:
https://imahealth.org/treatment-protocols/
Wishing you a quick recovery. Stay safe and healing hugs.
I used horse paste.
I originally purchased horse paste from Amazon just in case my invermectin would be seized by Customs or USPS.
Luckily, it arrived intact and unopened.
I had 2 shipments “diverted”, the company in India replaced it both times no extra charge.
Same. They seized my order. A good reason to order the IVM on it's own order.
I had also picked up hcq and fluvoxomine in a separate order that was not seized.
Which Indian company do you use, Kathleen? My husband is using it for cancer. We have a source but I want to have a list of alternatives.
alldaychemist.com
I used this one at first and it’s great for small uses such as a 5-7 day treatment for a virus.
But my last two orders have been from Kay-biotech.com, which a nurse at Dr Pierre Kory’s practice tipped me off to. The reason being it is much, much cheaper if you are doing detox regimens that require 3-6 months of dosing. We needed a lot for three of our family to do the protein detox protocol. I am paying $24 for 100 tablets of 12mg each.
Just wanted to provide a second source. Shipping is about the same as the others - it takes a while to get here.
Too expensive! Indiamart.com
I’ve always pleased with that company and their quick delivery. AllDayChemist.com
and The Wellness Company.
Alldaychemist.com -I’ve ordered half a dozen times maybe…b/c it’s an international shipment, it can take a few weeks, although it has gotten fasten, I think.
Also, more recently, 2nd smartest guy substack has a link to Virex Health, arrives within a few days…also a source for Fenbendazole and other cancer protocol products.
Prayers for complete healing 🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼 the most important part! ✝️💟
2nd smartest guy substack also has Tuckers interview with Dr. Mary Talley Bowden.
Will the prices be affected by the new tariffs?
I also am interested in other sources! Forgive me for jumping in ahead of you, Kathleen 🤪😍
Goat drench liquid. $72/qt 1ml/100# human body weight. Can't overdose.
I think the one i bought from was simply ivermectin.com. That was a couple years ago and they were great!
I use petvermectin from virex. 2nd smartest guy usually has coupons
I have used several times Shipping is quick
https://www.2ndsmartestguyintheworld.com/p/smoking-gun-in-jfk-files-oswald-and?publication_id=400535&post_id=160410465&isFreemail=true&r=12bubw&triedRedirect=true
That’s the one we use too from 2nd smartest guy. . Just ordered some. Husband is taking it and now I am to see if it helps a digestive issue. Happy with the service. I’m worried the cancer industry is going to flex their evil muscle though. We will use horse version if necessary.
I used the horsepaste on my fever blisters. I also heard it is good for toenail fungus, athlete's foot and skin cancer
Yes basal cell with vta c and dmso!
WARTS!
I had 2 shipments “diverted”, the company in India replaced it both times no extra charge.
Just dose it appropriately for weight. We had friends that their whole family took it for the Fauci 2019 cold & flu virus, and it cleared it right up. We took the regular version for the same 'virus' and it also worked. Huge believers in Ivermectin.
I started out pea-size, now I take thumbnail-size three days on three days off.
Was it apple flavored?
🤣
😋 Yummmmm.
Yeah Apple. lol it’s almost bad enough to but it way back in your throat to avoid the sensors.
I buy goat drench. 1ml/100# human body weight. Can't overdose. $72/qt.
Ivermec has a high LD50, it is so safe.
Our family too!
My friend told me about the liquid ivermectin you can order from Valley Vet ... you order the Agri-mectin...
http://valleyvet.com/
You need a syringe with needle to get fluid out of bottle and drink it down with OJ.
3ml per day. Very inexpensive. First learned of it through Liz Barnhardt’s covid protocol years ago: https://www.barnhardt.biz/ivermectin/
Me too!
Me too. And fenbendazole
Kathleen, look into the HumanN Super Beats and their NEO40, also Carditone by Ayush Herbs for healthy blood pressure support. There is also Blood Pressure 911 by Phytage, another natural blood pressure support formula. I take all of them and have been able to kiss the pharma so-called medicines goodbye. Have been completely off BP meds for almost six years now and have never felt better. Reduced stress also helped.
Yes! Thank you so much…I’ve (slowly) weaned myself from my 12-14 daily rx’s (ugh)
BP med is the last one!
PS. Full disclosure-retired (hallelujah) pharmacist here…I thought it was perfectly normal for waaay too long. So grateful God awakened me!
Amen! God is Great, MOMinator! Congrats on weaning off of all those rx's!! I only had to get off two, the BP and cholesterol meds... fortunately there are natural options out there, that work (although, *These statements have not been evaluated by the FDA. This product is not intended to diagnose, treat, cure, or prevent any disease.)... although they do just that.... LOL!
I will also chime in here on BP solutions. My wife's BP was up there in the 180/90 range and a friend of hers, a legit herbalist, recommended David Wintson's Grief Relief. The ingredient of interest here is hawthorn. Anyhow, it wasn't a week and her BP was down to the 120/70 range. She quit taking it after many month and she had to go to urgent care to check for strep and her BP was sky high. They told her to go see her primary about that, probably to get a script. Started taking the hawthorn again and within days her BP was back to normal. Might not work for everyone, but can't hurt to try.
Edit - I looked at the ingredients on Blood Pressure 911 by Phytage and low and behold, it has hawthorn in it.
I was thinking it did in the back of mind while I was reading your post Craig, and then I read to the bottom and saw your edit!
Thanks for the info.
Ketogenic diet works too, and fixes glucose intolerance.
Melatonin extended release 10mg is also very good for lowering bp especially if you’re over 50 —your natural lowered amt of melatonin contributes to higher bp in the older cohort. It’s not HUGE but if you only have moderate hbp it should be more than enough to get the job done. EG you only take an ACE inhibitor like lisinopril or an ARB like losartan. Maybe a water pill like hydrochlorothiazide too. Melatonin not only helps you regulate your bp it contributes to elasticity of your arteries (makes them more youthful). Dr McCullough has written quite a bit about melatonin and its role in bp regulation and to my knowledge he isn’t selling melatonin for the purpose lol. And he’s a respected cardiologist. It worked for me I was in the 140/85 range and after about 4 months I had to get rid of the last RX I was on as I was dipping below 100/60. Now I’m 115/70 most days. No weight loss required (although it would have been nice 😂).
I remember when 140/80 was just fine for a BP.
I've read "they've" lowered what is considered normal just to sell more prescriptions. That also happened with what used to be considered normal cholesterol numbers. Normal is now much lower, therefore, the number of people getting scripts is higher. What a racket.
New parameters 140/90. Back to the future. 🙄 They really don't share until you hit 200. Yes we had ONE med tell us that. I know she's right. The nurse practitioner as usual tried to feel is out, he's gonna die NOW would meds! Do you know the signs?! Oh, they ARE SIGNS??! Is there a diet? Oh yes a diet but she want going to tell us that. You know, no salt, no meat, no fat...🙄😡 Besides they took his bp with his elbow elevated to his shoulder level. That's 'how they were taught'. It's science.
Same. That used to be the cutoff for the military docs. Above that, they would prescribe the bp meds (Lisinopril in my case).
Any BP med that ends in "pril" has been derived from snake venom.
@Irunthis1: Interesting, thank you for that info. I also take Melatonin 5mg at before hitting the rack at night, so perhaps that is also assisting me. Been doing the Melatonin for just a couple years though. Sleep has been great. Getting deep rem sleep.
Question on the dosage, is the 10mg the amount needed to get the full benefits you describe above?
It’s the extended release at 10mg that seems to work best although extended in this case is only about 5-7 hours. As a hormone it has a relatively low half life and the extended allows a longer window of effect. I’ll see if I can link Dr Mcculloughs article about it to you here in a minute. I take the Natures Made Sleep Well extended release with GABA. Interestingly, GABA is metabolized in the gut (at very low levels but there it is) to GHB which is one of the best sleep aids in the world giving one good REM sleep, stimulating growth hormone among other benefits.
https://open.substack.com/pub/petermcculloughmd/p/natural-ways-to-manage-blood-pressure?r=rq5sl&utm_medium=ios
I think this is it. Annoyingly it requires a paid subscription to read entirely but I was a paying customer back then. Apparently you don’t get to keep access for material you paid for which is sort of raising my bp right now. 🫤
Awesome, thank you! FYI, mine is Source Naturals 2.5mg (I take two). It has 335 mcg of B-6 as well (there are those B vitamins again... love them). It doesn't say anything about extended release. I am going to look into it and probably try this one to see if there is a difference. Thanks again.
I also believe Rutin is a great flavonoid to make blood vessels stronger yet more subtle. When I worked at Alt Med we did lots of IV drips for different cocktails. When patients veins were weak and blowing out they were put on Rutin 500mg 2 times a day. Usually in 10 days to 2 weeks veins improved significantly. It’s also good for. Varicose veins and broken capillaries.
Yes, Carditone is a find. I also eat celery which is a natural diuretic.
And Congrats 🎉 79smith!!!
Thanks for the info.
You are welcome.
FYI, I also take a B-complex, NAC, Quercetin, zinc, D3/K2, and a vitamin C/probiotic fruit, veg, probiotic blend (Garden of Life Vitamin Code Raw Vitamin C). It also helps to eat right with as organic/Non-GMO and whole foods as possible. Real coffee and good water don't hurt either...
If I could just figure out how to reduce stress … 😭
( I’m getting better at it)
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Right? Honestly, that just reinforces my belief that people are simply not thinking.
Tucker interviewed Dr. Mary Talley Bowden about her experience during the Covid years. It's really worth watching. She talks about ivermectin.
need to have meds made here in the event of another man made pandemic (just found out a lab in the Netherlands is right now working on gain of function on Avian Influenza) or other catastrophe. self reliance is the name of the game.
I'm hopeful that RFKjr will look into the gain-of-function labs in the U.S. Actually check out all the labs as there are likely some that are looking into who knows what!
I agree. I want to know what they did with all the deadly organisms from Plum Island in NY. They closed it down so where did all the viral/bacterial organisms go?
I think I've heard rumblings the Lyme originated from Plum Island?
100%. Natural herbal remedies that do (have done forever) the things that the pharma labs are doing/trying to do with "manmade" chemical concoctions.
It’s very scary that we depend on China not only for munitions but for antibiotics. We have to start producing these things here.
And unfortunately that means Trump needs to court Pfizer and the like. People think he’s doing it because it’s about vaccines. It’s not. It’s about the antibiotics and such. It’s going to be really hard to have to work with murderers. I wish we could promote a pharmacological company that wasn’t complicit in Covid. 🙄 are there any???
Yes. Surely there are some honest drug manufacturers…. Please?
they could wipe us out contaminating one antibiotic line.
This is true. But when we when we need good, valid life saving medicines, who do we trust? How do we get back there and away from the evil that is in the new medicines?
Hopefully find an integrative MD, informed consent. do your own due diligence and use homeopathy whenever possible.
Of course. But when medicine IS needed (and sometimes it just is regardless our stellar life choices,) we need to be able to trust how it is made and by who. Not all medicines are unnecessary, they are just not needed as a preventative of any kind, or as a first line of treatment.
Hoping that MAHA can over time somehow make a difference and ensure safety and clean ingredients make by appropriately educated people.
But God....fly or die
Exactly...🎯🎯🎯
and Trump's chart showing how much other countries were charging for American goods was a real eye opener
we were sold reliance on an Information Economy (even as education was eroded), an Entertainment Economy, a Porno Economy, Pro Sports, Vacations, Eco-Green Energy, a Pharma-biotech-medical care economy, all manner of FAKE things to "produce" and insatiably consume unto death and be the "leaders" on, while we imported inferior items from afar off and paid to offshore everything too-- to raise our stock market and enjoy the "increases" in mutual funds.. even while MORE inflation and MORE multi-levelled Govt. Grifting ensued, and 8 in 10 American children faced "food insecurity" or whatever. This Country (The System MADE by and For the Elitist Immoral Progressive Public-Private Partnership swapping Community) has SUCKED for a LONG TIME, and why wouldn't it really, it was designed to make us global leaders via our National Prostitution.
Stupidest, most vile and idiotic episode of The Office ever...where Oscar tries to explain to Michael how China is NOT a threat and how ignorant everyone who thinks that way is. Emblematic of how idiot American consumer/voters are played by the makers of their "entertainment"
Almost every country that we import goods from hate us!!
Excellent point!
The meds and medical devices produced in other countries is especially concerning, especially since many are produced in China. I've seen photos of the conditions of some of these production facilities - yuck.
And as bad as Covid was and still is, it certainly opened a lot of doors for positive results. None of what is happening would’ve been possible without Covid. Wars generally result in great change. Covid was war and it’s allowing great change.
Yes it was terrifying that a country like China had so much control over the USA.
The next step is to abolish internal subsidies.
For example, the US has a floor price on sugar. I'm not a fan of sugar, but this is why high fructose corn syrup is used in US products instead of sucrose from cane. World price of sugar is lower than the US minimum.
Candy companies moved to Canada to buy sugar at the world price.
Ethanol for gasoline can't be imported from Brazil that make their ethanol from cane.
Maybe tariffs will work this out, but the US needs to stop subsidizing ag products, too.
This likely requires Congress.
Totally agree. I am from a family of decades of farming. Get rid of the USDA… they have multiple employees per farmer and of course food stamps and such come from the USDA. Get rid of all the subsidies and let the market take care of itself. And get rid of all foreign-owned property. Smithfield farms, once an American family owned company, is now owned by China….mass producing pork and hurting the small farmer. I would guess (and I don’t know for a fact), that nearly all the pork in the stores is from Smithfield. Sad. And if you are unlucky enough to be in the area where their confinement operations are, you’ll know it as soon as you take a breath! It reeks! Very unhealthy too….and cattle raised the same way are also not good for us….especially if they start using the chemical in feed to reduce methane. Ha! The global warming clowns I’m sure are all for it.
I agree, Grammy. The USDA is not the farmer's friend. They also seem to have no problems with allowing any chemical sprayed on the food we eat, to the detriment of the farmer and the consumer. Like the FDA, they serve the corporations and not the individuals.
I'm a big fan of pork but I don't support the way many hogs live the bulk of their lives in areas they can barely turn around in. I would imagine the stress that causes doesn't contribute to a high quality meat plus it's cruel.
True, but industrial dairy is as bad or worse. The cows are sick and dying... and live around a third of the time pastured cows do... they load them up with hormones, antibiotics and steroids... which DO get into their milk.
I will never drink store-brand milk again... and most "organic" brands are NOT healthy either... some research required... the good stuff is VERY expensive.
SevenSons.net is a family owned organic regenerative farm that raises pigs on pasture and sells online. Wellness Meats is another place we've ordered meat.
Thanks, we have at least one local supplier but I will definitely check those out. Thanks again!
CAFO are the worst. Yuk!
yes they are.
When was Smithfield family owned? Growing up, we got feeder pigs from them. They were massive then and this was 30 years ago. It may beg what "family owned" means??
I think they got bought out in the 1960s…..not by China yet
I think it still says they are American owned, but they’re a subsidiary of China……
Not sure how that works …🤷♀️
Yes, get rid of them. Used to work for them and they are full of rot. Only lasted 3 years there bc I cold not stand the people I worked with or what USDA stood for. Corrupt beyond compare.
Do you know if any livestock are currently receiving mRNA products?
I have read (can’t remember where) that they were going to start putting it in livestock feed. The best we can do for ourselves is to buy from local organic gardeners and farmers. It’s more expensive, but “ pay me now, or pay me later”, applies here!
Smithfield’s is about to hit the tariff wall…
Corn is food for humans & animals, not combustable engines. Ethanol needs to disappear ASAP!
Corn is not a good as you might think. Non-GMO organic may be OK in limited amounts...
https://sapienskitchen.com/paleo-blog/top-five-reasons-why-eating-corn-doesnt-make-any-sense/
I don’t think any corn is non-GMO unless you find some small organic farmer….
Most all of our food is contaminated or tainted by something…..
MAHA!!!!
Simple Truth and 365 Whole foods offers organic canned corn... IF you trust them.
I found out that Albertson's/Safeway "Organics" brand EV olive oil is NOT real EV olive oil, let alone organic, so I trust nothing of that brand... most organic milk is bogus too...
There is an interesting book about Nixon, Earl Butz and the USDA how HFCS ended up everywhere. Fascinating. It’s an older book but was quite a story.
I commented on this yesterday and will reiterate what my uncle used to say "The only way farmers can't make any money is if they weld their mailboxes shut".
California Rice Farmers get million dollar checks NOT to grow their rice and dairy farmers are forced to pour out their milk...pure insanity.
You’re up bright and early. Happy to see Temu and Shein get spanked
Yup, it's glorious.
The Chinese managed to take a loophole (the de minimus exemption) intended to facilitate small person-to-person transactions, and exploited it to create an an entire multi-billion dollar wealth extraction industry. No one "needs" the cheap crap they sell, it's not like you can buy your child's breakfast there. And virtually no Americans benefit from it beyond the $15/hour delivery guy.
The fact that this went on for so long unchallenged shows just how rotten the system is.
How about all the armchair economists (and real economists actually) wait until the tariffs show some impact before predicting doom and gloom? Will you admit you are wrong if what you predict doesn’t happen? Doubtful.
Also, you’d think American “journalists” might hope they work instead of rooting for their failure, but nah, Trump hatred trumps all.
I'm with you. "Experts" need to calm down already and take a wait&see approach but they won't. They can't keep their trap shut or their mind open.
Especially when their actual job is to do the opposite
Amen!
No one knows for sure how this will play out. For all we know, every country we do business with will drop or eliminate their tariffs by the end of the week. And if we face a cost of living increase, I'm confident it won't last long.
I've seen economists of all stripes be quite skeptical. Reindustrialization isn't quite as simple as slapping tariffs on everyone.
Skepticism is fine, outright predictions of disastrous consequences or their ultimate failure are ridiculous hyperbole. And re-industrialization may be the primary goal, but it isn’t the only one. And let’s not forget that the mere threat of tariffs already resulted in commitments to reshore manufacturing by various companies. So let’s give it chance, shall we?
Johnny-O, along with others like Benjamin and Bard Joseph, hate everything. I don't think I've ever seen a positive comment out of any of them.
While your response is excellent, it's a waste of time and effort if you are trying to reach him. He'd rather wallow in his self-pity and feel sorry for himself. It's a shame as all of these guys seem pretty smart and probably could make something out of themselves if so motivated. But it's easier to just trash everything to rationalize one's own failures than act with self-control, focus, and discipline.
You are being a douchebag, as usual. Johnny makes a very valid point.
Massive tariffs were tried before, under Hoover... and it was a disaster that helped push us into a major depression.
So you may disagree, but he DOES have a point and you are being an ahole.
Not quite "ridiculous hyperbole."
https://www.britannica.com/topic/Smoot-Hawley-Tariff-Act
Are economic circumstances today the same as the 1930s? No. In some ways things are better, in others worse, so no one really knows what’s going to happen. And of course economists are engaging in ridiculous hyperbole, e.g. - Paul Krugman’s been screeching about Trump’s economic policy since 2016!
No, in the '30's we didn;t have $34 TRILLION in debt, with a one TRILLION interest expense annually and growing exponentially...
Or had our industrial base wiped out for corporate profit.
Krugman is not an economist, he is a jagoff and a faggoty ahole.
I am not saying that targeted tariffs are not a good idea when we are getting screwed, but putting in massive tariffs across the board with no mfg base and a financial system already near collapse... is dangerous... and maybe even intentional... Trump does know how to do bankruptcies...
I’m willing to see what happens before pushing the panic button. Besides, Trump doesn’t want to be known as “the president who crippled the US economy”, if tariffs starti to cause problems, he’ll back off them.
You're right...reindustrialization takes time. But my guess is Trump isn't looking to simply re-invigorate American industry. I go back to what Jeff pointed out in his column...we're the biggest buyer in the world. Other countries mock us for being materialists, but man do they love that we are. The big question in my mind is, will they remove their tariffs (or lower prices) in order to stay competitive, or will they give us the middle finger, believing that we'll pay higher prices rather than denying our lust for spending? We'll soon see...
This is a lie from CNN:
"The egg market seems to be on the upswing. While the avian flu has killed 30 million egg laying birds this year, the outbreaks have been contained."
The avian flu didn't kill those birds, the farmers did at the direction of the Federal government, in an effort to contain the avian flu. Lying liars.
Actually, they perpetuated avian flu by culling the birds before some could gain natural immunity. They can’t contain the disease because of wild birds. Thanks to comments, addendum: who, because of natural immunity, don't die but can theoretically transmit the virus to vulnerable flocks.
What wild birds? I live in a rural area and thet are NO dead wild birds around. Totally bogus like all the other BS
Lots of BS indeed! However, since we have evidence of wild birds having the virus, I believe that they develop natural immunity (like the chickens would if they had been allowed to survive the culling), but can still carry the virus to vulnerable flocks.
USDA KILLED THEM.
The WAY that they did it was horrendous. They "foamed" those poor flocks. The birds could not run from the foam, they screamed. It was BAD!!!
Tough to 'like' that one. Despicable! Words fail me these days.
Beyond cruel. I have to check the CFR, Code of Federal Regs as to my knowledge, that is not a humane way to cull livestock. Those employees of the USDA should be foamed so they know what it is liked. They make me sick. All those wonderful flocks. Now I am pissed off again......
Regarding your comments yesterday about underestimating the democrat machine, never forget that evil never sleeps. Like AI, it learns from its mistakes. Evil never changes its spots. To borrow from Dennis Michael Lynch, following the losses in Wisconsin, “Republicans love to lose.” If we ever learn from our mistake of underestimating the evil, we should become bullet proof.
There was no loss in Wisconsin, but a major steal. It’s what they do. With a record turnout, and overwhelming support for voter I’d, which shows the conservatives were out in force, and yet a super lefty judge wins a contest giving more power to the communists? I don’t think so. Now if it can be proven…
Indeed. I don’t think I ever saw a positive ad for team Brad. The opposition ran ruthless ads about him, while running ads making Crawford look like she was a dream mom and judge.
Terrible. I cast mine for the conservative.
Check out the work of Seth Keshel. Election analyst extraordinaire. He's on Substack.
Exactly!
Hard to believe that reciprocal tariffs are such anathema to so many.
Or not, considering how much money was being made by fleecing America.
What may be hard to believe for the majority is how many in DC, and for how long, let the taxpayer take it in the keister while they sat by idly, while making occasional noises about costs.
Said it before, I'll say it again: Your. Government. Hates. You.
Yes, and just like "outsourcing" was a good thing. Yes, a "good thing" for the Wall Street banksters. I had a disagreement over 20 years ago with a 'Wall Street' trader/banker as he tried to explain to me how off shoring US manufacturing was good for America, as we are 'transitioning' into an 'information' economy. I simply told him that a nation is not a nation, nor sovereign if it doesn't make its products. He said that 'cheep' goods are good for the consumer and good for 'business'.... He was making too much money off of the fleecing of America to remember that he was an American first and that you NEVER sell out your Constitution and country... if you are a real American.
Like the Wall Street types who are all in on “Climate Change” because they trade carbon credits so make money off the whole sham.
And the “information/service economy” is biting people in the butt now that AI is poised to take over lots of those jobs 😕
100%!
Yep, and if you look at the geriatric bunch infesting Congress that have morbidly obese bank accounts, you can see the results of selling out America for their own power and financial gain... NAFTA, TPP... Remember Clinton and Co selling our satellite and missile tech to China?
Exactly... and Clinton almost got away with giving them the Long Beach port! The senate did its job for once and stopped that one...
Several years ago on the sharks tank, Kevin O’Leary kept telling people who wanted to make things in America. He wouldn’t invest in them if they didn’t send it overseas because of cost. I was so mad. I shut it off and never watched that show again but now he’s sure changed his tune!
And now Kevin is supposedly on 'our' side (at least saying the right things) ... I never watched the shark tank show, but I have seen him now a few times on Gutfeld's show. Sounds like I wasn't missing anything. I would have turned it off too!
It’s because the media the liberals listen to always leaves out the word ‘reciprocal’ in order to make Trump look like a bully to suit their narrative. It’s the same thing with always leaving out the word ‘illegal’ when talking about immigrants we need to deport.
It's possible media liberals, and their audience, don't know what reciprocal means.
Yes, in fact “reciprocity“ was written into the law 50 years ago or more – – but US trade negotiators ignored it. Reagan made some efforts to support the heartland with individual restrictive trade actions, but most of the “store“ was given away by State dept Representatives in the 1950s and 1960s to help Europe. Low tariffs in America made life marvelous for US investors in Europe. And then we baked the lack of reciprocity into the “unfair”international system 30 years years ago, that included significant restrictions by other countries while we were open. Trump was right in 2016 – – we had wimpy negotiators afraid to get back to the basics.
So, are "reciprocal tariffs" better, worse, or equal to "no tariffs at all" for any given country?
And aren’t our reciprocal tariffs still only half of what other countries are charging us??? I thought I saw that yesterday.
Yes. It leaves Trump leverage and he can always increase. Going full reciprocity would leave him no real bargaining power.
Is he not incredibly savvy in all these areas? It sure is nice to have a successful businessman and builder in the Oval Office.
My late father was a diehard Dem and a dyed-in-the-wool union man. All his life he advocated reciprocal tariffs.
It amazes me how he got so smart. 😉
First, I will second the other comment, up early. Can't remember when the C&C memo arrived so early my computer.....
Second: I am old enough now that I remember when Sam Walton and Walmart advertised "Made in America" Then Nixon visited China, Sam passed away and the family opened the flood gates to cheap goods along the way to building one of the largest retail companies in the world. I, also in retail, used to shake my heads, watching American workers flock to Walmart to buy their cheap goods while at the same time killing their jobs. When one looks now at what is actually made in the US, it's depressing. We used to make quality TV's, stereo's, etc. find an electronic item made in the US today. The only way that a person can buy an electronic component is from a Chinese exporter (Amazon, etc). What is particularly galling to me is the dominance of DJI not just from a security issue but from technological advancement. My hobby is photography, and there is one company that makes outstanding tripods, bullheads and other accessories,, that professionals use. They have been challenged by the cheap imitations from China that Amazon sells. I agree with Trump, enough is enough. Let's make some US products again.
I noted some moving boxes saying 'Proudly made in USA". Geez, cardboard. That's what we're down to. I'm looking forward to local manufacturing.
Hey - corrugated is a great and classic American industry. We have the trees that China doesn't
I was always an admirer of ZeroHalliburton aluminum luggage. During the pandemic, I was able to purchase one of the last suitcases that were still made in the US.
In my email correspondence with the company, I asked if the new suitcases were still made in the US because the newer models did not have the "Made in the US" label inside of them.
Received a word salad response from the company that now they are made in China under "strict quality standards."
ZH made luggage-handler-proof camera gear cases. Pricey but well worth it, back in the day.
I used them when I was in the Navy. Indestructible.
China made. Make good mood.
I am waiting to see if these returning manufacturers can actually find people who WANT TO WORK ... Look at the current labor force...they all found side hustles that pay them enough to continue their lackadaisical lifestyles. So many have given up on being able to buy a house, or even start a family (unless they're entrenched in the Welfare Pipeline). We gotta rediscover that good old Protestant Work Ethic (no disrespect to all non-Protestants out there!).
Yes! Why does no one seem to remember that about Walmart!
"howling like scalded coyotes" Where in the world does Jeff come up with these?
'Trump scrambled their failed attempts to push high egg prices' LOL
I hope he didn't poach that one-liner from anyone.
Poach. Pun intended?
Guilty.
Nice to see the commentariat coming out of their shells.
I once again handed my phone to our kiddo and told them to find the figure of speech. 🤣
Yes and the ticks hiding in tall grasses. I do enjoying my c&c for the writing style, as well as the information. The comparisons and descriptions make complex situations easier to understand and remember.
I know, his writing is brilliant, so creative with such well-chosen words!
My background is white rural trash (Hoosier by way of North Carolina) and my family always said "screaming like a scalded cat."
Yes. And I've given that a lot of thought and I don't think a coy would even feel it unless you got him in the face with cooling flying hot water. But if you could carry a boilng pot AND get him to hold still for it...
Maybe Wile E Coyote? Scalding himself with an Acme product he’s trying to use to get the Road Runner? 😆
I can envision Wile E Coyote with a red-hot anvil of some sort:)
Thank you for this early post. Excellent! 👍
This may have been 'instant' but is still a long term play. Jobs didn't go overseas overnight and it will be years before the transformation is complete. Meanwhile we have a populace that has the attention span of a 30 second you tube clip. I've been out knocking doors for our upcoming school board race in nice weather with homes with the windows open, letting that pot smoke waft out the windows. HS are graduating too many kids who are addicted to their phones, can barely read and have ambitions to be social media influencers. Our labor force participation rate is ~62% if the BLS is to be trusted. Glad to see the jobs coming back, but we have to be able to fill them, and for many skilled positions, that is already a struggle. Too many see the welfare state as compassion, an approval for disability as the grand prize and a job they have to go to every day, on time, and actually work as oppression. I hope I'm wrong, and DO truly appreciate Trump's moves on this. But we have to change the CULTURE, not just the trade deals.
Exactly. It's a huge uphill battle to get our populace ready to work again like we did in the 50s. It will almost take a big war or a major depression to shake everyone out of their stoned, virtual reality existence.
I remember when our son was going to college in Pittsburg KS (graduated in 2019), we bought a small home to rent to him and his room-mates that we fixed up and sold when he graduated. Talking to a handyman we hired, said he could grow his biz if he could find competent help, but couldn't - also had a medical transport biz and that applicants HAD to pass a drug test, and he complained that the many of the applicants and randomly tested employees failed the tests. Pittsburg is a microcosm of a lot of small towns - median income ~40K and ~30% below the poverty line. Other than the university and a handful of manufacturing plants, not a lot of economic opportunity and a lot of drug problems. Pretty sure the house across the street was a drug house. Cars coming and going all day long.
Get rid of most welfare programs (except for the most profound physical and mental disabilities), and people will be forced to have a work ethic. And enforce criminal vagrancy laws so it’s not easy to live/camp on the streets. Also, many people deemed “disabled” are able to do lots of things.
Yes, we passed the ADA decades ago to accommodate disabilities and yet the number collecting disability just keeps growing. Know many work under the table. Our neighbor was given disability as she was an accountant and back problems meant she could not sit for long periods of time. But runs a thriving Etsy business out of her home, and sure she doesn't report the income.
You are right, Americans have been intentionally de-skilled and depressified. Watch the obamas documentary on Netflix about the Chinese takeover of a plastics factory in the south. They brought in Chinese workers who would comply with dangerous working conditions and noncompliance with environmental regulations. This is what we will be faced with. Will we really build back better or just move Chinese oppression here?
Oh not just Chinese. The slaughterhouses have been packed to the gills with legal or illegal immigrants for decades. I remember reading about a school district in rural KS (Dodge City) where teachers are faced with kids speaking over a dozen different languages due to the meatpacking industry in that town. My sister lives in rural Alabama where there are a lot of chicken processing plants and said she feels like she is in another country when she goes to Wal-Mart - and all this was BEFORE the 4 years of open borders. I ran a mfg assn for 11 years (08-19) and many of our members were freaking out over demographics - some plants had as much as 50% of their workforce being boomers, and little to no pipeline of skilled hires from the millennial generation, and poaching from each other was the main path to finding skilled talent. A good maintenance person could get 6 figures easy. My son (almost 30) is a production manager and he is the first to call out his own generation and favors hiring older workers who still have a work ethic. One plant in my association was over 40% Hmong immigrants (legal, they are a defense contractor) as they hired a few who then recommended friends and family - not dangerous jobs but non glamourous assembly jobs that required a lot of attention to detail. Said the Hmong workers were diligent, showed up every day and did not complain about every little thing. Sad commentary - turning the ship is going to take some time if it's not already too late.
I think you are right and the power idiots faced with this situation of their own creation want to fix it by killing the de-skilled useless eaters and bring in foreigners who will not object and are by necessity survivors. After a couple generations they too will become useless and need to be replaced. Rinse and repeat.
Yes, immigrants built the railroads in the 1800's, filled the sweatshops at the turn of the century and have propped up ag and meat processing for decades more recently. Too many Americans have discovered the wonders of the so-called safety net where it is more lucrative to not work.
American workers, my intelligent white Christian character, good servants and dependable, have been used at the work places, honestly they were. Also my friends kids who never took off a day unless they were sick and seldom were, worked with intense migraines many days, were trustworthy enough that they had business keys and entry codes but didn't get raises after years and new hirelings were brought in with larger incomes. Dei hires can't be removed now. And we in Illinois are still in the Biden ages because the #fatman is sitting on us.
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True, incomes/pay have NOT kept up for a long time. I blame H1B visas, illegals, and too many people trapped in crappy jobs as they don't have FU money so stick with jobs with perceived security over taking a risk. I know many who took the jabs to keep jobs they could not afford to quit - in debt up to their eyeballs -student loans, car payments, mortgage, credit cards....I also know a few who did quit, and all are now doing better than they were before - jab mandate forced them to look for new opportunities that ended up being better than their old jobs.
Exactly my hubby! He told me at the 11th hour, he would just have to get it to save his job I said you will absolutely not! So he lost his job a few months later he got a job job doing the same thing less stressful, enjoys it more. It was a huge blessing now we’re on the edge of the doge knife. We will see. He hasn’t qualified for any of the offers because of not enough time at job.
I have to wonder if some of this pushback on DOGE is really pushback against the ever more rapid change. Not just in DOGE (which is necessary as one, Elon can't do this forever, and 2, trying to get ahead of the deep state before they organize resistance) but in so many facets of life. Covid upended all of our lives in one way or another and rather than promote 'return to normal' we were hit with a barrage of 'new normal'. Most of us are powerless to stop the freight train barreling at us - "we" (as in everyone) can try to learn to adapt on the fly, or we can key Teslas and rage post about Elon and/or Trump.
Good points, as always Donna! I appreciate your measured comments!
Thanks RL! Jeff has been running later on his stacks and usually by the time they run I am in the middle of other things and end up reading C&C at night. At that point I figure commenting is probably useless as most seem to read in the morning.
Same here lately. It’s hard to get in a comment early enough if you have things going on in the morning.
I suspect the factories will be fully or mostly automated. No need for human workers in any great quantities. This is not a secret.
Yes, I have been on plant tours of the some of the tier 2 automotive suppliers and they are highly automated. However - the robots break. They need to be programmed. Materials have to be managed/ordered/paid for. Logistical schedules, even if automated, still need human eyes to make adjustments for contingencies. Humans have to interface with/serve/land customers. All jobs the average person stumbling out of a HS is not remotely qualitied for. And automation is great for large low value and some high value production runs but it's not 'there' yet for more variable customized products that run in smaller batches due to set up and changeover costs. My son works for a plastics manufacturer where they make water bottles, milk bottles, etc. Highly automated but still need people to set up runs, test incoming raw materials to make sure they are to spec, monitor quality (even with automation stuff still screws up), program. do maintenance, load trucks with the proper order quantities, etc.
So I did a couple fast and dirty searches and just took the AI results. Per your comment that the average high school grad isn't ready for even smaller manufacturing needs: it is projected that by 2030 there will be a shortfall of around 2.1 million factory workers (of approximately 215 million working age Americans, circa 2020). The manufacturing reshoring is in automotive (EV production and battery cell manufacture), semiconductor companies, pharma, and plastics. The expertise needed is: statisticians, data scientists, logisticians, engineers, computer and information systems managers, software developers, and industrial maintenance technicians. The older workers are retiring and the younger ones apparently don't find manufacturing jobs all that attractive (said the AI), so in order to be more appealing and boost worker productivity manufacturers are relying on AI, digital twinning, the internet of things (IoT), and automated dashboards. So you are right: highschool grads aren't going to cut it unless specialized programs are offered, probably sort of like with the trades. But, something to notice maybe is that these jobs are rather like many that the current laptop class perform. Or, perhaps a better analogy would be those employed in the Victorian textile mills? I think my point is that the human element will continue to be reduced as much as possible.
Agree that current manufacturing is much less labor intensive, but it is also not monolithic, there is tremendous variation within the industry.
About 10 years ago there was a large Deloitte study on the topic of future employment needs in manufacturing. One of the data points was a survey of parents of HS students, and at that time, 70% of parents said they would discourage their child from going into manufacturing, as 'we don't make things in this country any more' and 'they are dead end jobs'. Far from true, but the industry does not do a good job of promoting the opportunities.
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