Michael Smith

I have a friend who is a political consultant in New York City, I can’t reveal her identity because while she primarily works for Republican candidates, her firm works for people on both sides of the aisle. She knows a lot of high powered movers and shakers in NYC politics and although she is not directly involved in Democrat national politics, she says the big state Dem parties coordinate very closely with the national party, so she talks to a lot of the same people.

The tidal wave of propaganda we face from Democrats has a few specific goals - to make it seem that Kamala Harris is a high performer, she is loved by all, and is unbeatable.

Harris is none of those things - and the Dem party intelligentsia knows it.

My friend told me last night that she is universally loathed within the power circles. She says in private, they think Harris is like a loaded gun in Alec Baldwin’s hand, she could go off and shoot the campaign at any moment. Privately they voice Harris is in the final stages of a bad bout of Dunning-Kruger and they say the greatest danger is that Harris truly thinks they built the public image from her when they are building her from the public image they created.

On a side note, she says they thought they could overcome Biden's bad performance if needed - but the real concern about Biden is that he has terminal Dunning-Kruger. He was shown the bad polling and even after the debate, denied he had a problem. He blamed Trump for his bad debate performance. He has such an inflated view of himself that there was no way to manage him. My friend thinks they promised him a deal to shield him from prosecution for connections with Hunter's activities and a way to get Hunter off the hook. They are mad at him that he made it more difficult and more public to get rid of him than it should have been.

My friend told me the only reason Harris was "picked" was that powerful black leaders told the Party leadership they would launch the nukes and go mutually assured destruction if there was a floor fight at the convention or Biden stayed in. She said Obama was behind the Biden Basement strategy and was given the task to "manage" Harris through her obvious deficiencies.

I was joking when I wrote that Harris couldn't talk policy because the Dem powerbrokers had not told her what she believed yet, but my friend confirmed it. They couldn't wait until after the convention to bring her out because the propaganda surge wouldn't have time to work. Apparently she has been specifically ordered NOT to talk about any specifics until after the structured messaging comes out during the convention - they are afraid she will go off script and blow the whole thing up. They clearly do not want her thinking for herself.

No real surprise. Harris is a woman who served as VP for four years and in that time, has taken the do-nothing nature of the office of Vice President to new lows of nothingness, this is a woman who was picked for VP due to the DEI boxes she checked, and before Biden's collapse at the June debate, was being rumored to be targeted for replacement on the ticket. A short year ago, after having over a ninety percent turnover in staff in just two years, it was reported some in the Biden administration were scheming to get her replaced.

It is simply not believable or sustainable. The person the media machine has created does not exist.

Some pundits think she will become unbeatable after the "joy" is released during the Democrat convention next week, but I don't see it. The hype machine power knob has been turned to eleven for six weeks now, and I believe she has hit her ceiling. They are already stretching credulity for some of the ass-covering they are doing for her. This is the top for her and her primary run proves her floor is actually in the basement.

I think she will follow her pattern from 2020 and the more she is exposed to the general public, rather than the public being fed AI images of adoring crowds, the less people will like her.

Then the question becomes if voters hate Trump more than they hate the past four years under Biden.

I predict the Harris-Walz protective media bubble will collapse.

But will it collapse in time?

That, I do not know.

Even "New Coke" lasted seventy-nine days.

Tim adds:

You know there is a theory that Biden was given a wrong dose of meds before the debate to make him look bad and justify pushing him out. If so that means the power brokers in the Democratic Party (and their media allies) timed this thing to make sure Harris was peaking rather than her being old news. No doubt they realized the more time she had to campaign the worse it would be. They couldn't do it at the convention for the reasons you cite Michael.

The big question is will they be able to keep the "sugar high" going long enough to win. And will they be able to contain themselves, be able to not pull another obvious dirty trick on Trump before the election (and garner sympathy for him.) The Judge in his case wants to sentence him before the election; that could well backfire on them.

Watch for some really nasty October surprise before long.

Harris will have to be like Captain Peter Peachfuzz from Rocky and Bullwinkle; his crew gave him a mockup of the steering wheel for his ship so he thought he was piloting it but in reality they were doing it for him.

This is a race against time. The question is will either Harris and Walz or Trump make some terrible blunder? And how stupid is the voting public?

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Chet McAteer

Through nearly seven decades of life, I've come to recognize that people generally fall into two categories. There are those who, through careful reflection and experience, understand that the wisdom of the present is deeply rooted in the knowledge of the past. These individuals seek out history, learning from its lessons, and applying them to the challenges of today.

Then, unfortunately, there are those who remain oblivious to history, neither seeking its wisdom nor possessing the ability to grasp its significance. They struggle to apply any historical insight to their current circumstances, leaving them adrift in their understanding of the world.

Tim adds:

Well said! Thomas Sowell (brillian man that he is ) devoted an entire book to essentially saying what you said in just a few words.

The Left scoffs at history as a bunch of ignroant savages who knew nothing, while we today know more than did they so there is little to be learned. Their eyes are always on the horizon and where their dreams will lead them (they think).We have one eye on the past and know that what they want and want to do will fail because it had failed already. We understand there is wisdom in learning from mistakes.

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Bjørn K Vottestad

A closer look at the coastlines at Bangladesh shows extreme variations of sealevels that cannot be explained as just searise.
Open the post.

"Earth's surface gained 115,000 km2 of water and 173,000 km2 of land over the past 30 years, including 20,135 km2 of water and 33,700 km2 of land in coastal areas."

https://www.nature.com/articles/nclimate3111

Coastline colours;
-3m/yr Red, Orange, Sand, Light green, Green. +3m/yr

https://aqua-monitor.appspot.com/?datasets=shoreline&fbclid=IwAR3jFi3-ehckI6OLh5_elmk8tyxuQuzs76cHgtaUezNANkvFMAAWPkyoQtQ

https://notrickszone.com/2021/11/18/sea-level-alarmism-unravels-as-earths-coastlines-are-observed-expanding-since-1984/

According to long-term global tide gauge data (from the 100 tide gauges with more than 80 years of continuous data), sea levels have been gradually rising at rates of about +0.25 mm/year with no perceptible acceleration since the early 20th century.
Likewise, when satellite altimeters were originally deployed in the 1990s to early 2000s they consistently did "not show any sea level rise.”
A lack of sea level rise didn’t advance the narrative, of course.
So instead of reporting on what the actual satellite observations showed, arbitrary, subjective assumptions were employed to "correct” the data to show sea levels have been rising at rates of 3.2 mm/year instead.

The GMSL satellite altimeter data showed no rising trend for the first 5 years of the record. The first 5 years were then "corrected” to show +2.3 mm/year of sea level rise.

The GRACE satellite data showed the was a -0.12 mm/yr sea level fall trend from 2003 to 2008. After "correction,” this was changed to a +1.9 mm/year sea level rising trend.

"…the untampered results, not showing the desired sea level rise, were replaced by ‘corrected’ results. ntil August 4, 2011 the European Space Agency’s Envisat satellite was showing less than +0.976 mm/year sea level rise since 2004. A few months later, thanks entirely to further corrections, the same data set showed +2.97 mm/year of sea level rise.”

Conclusions by Parker and Ollier, 2016.

This analysis shows that the global network of tide gauges provide the best available measurement of the sea levels while the additional or substitutional information provided by GPS or satellite altimeter is of little help. The work is based on all the tide gauges included in the PSMSL surveys. The satellite altimeter GMSL models have crucial flaws that make them close to useless. These findings are important for coastal management.
The tide gauge results of sufficient quality and length permit the computation of local relative rates of rise or fall of sea level. The absence of acceleration in the naïve averaging of the tide gauges in the network and every local tide gauge indicate these rates are stable. Local planning should be locally based on these local rates and not on unrealistic computations.

https://notrickszone.com/2023/09/14/have-sea-level-rise-data-been-faked-altimetry-corrects-non-trends-to-show-rapid-acceleration/

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Timothy Birdnow

It just keeps getting more and more surreal.

Former Secret Service chief wanted to destroy White House cocaine ...

Former Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle Involved In White House Cocaine Coverup

Former Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle allegedly pushed to destroy cocaine evidence found in the White House in July 2023 but was resisted by the Forensics Services Division and Uniformed Division.

The cocaine discovery led to heated internal disagreements and the removal of an officer who wanted to follow standard investigative protocol.

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Timothy Birdnow

It just keeps getting more and more surreal.

Former Secret Service chief wanted to destroy White House cocaine ...

Former Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle Involved In White House Cocaine Coverup

Former Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle allegedly pushed to destroy cocaine evidence found in the White House in July 2023 but was resisted by the Forensics Services Division and Uniformed Division.

The cocaine discovery led to heated internal disagreements and the removal of an officer who wanted to follow standard investigative protocol.

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Andrew Gilles

High alert - Japan Nikkei 225 down 12.45% today ! That’s a big hit
ASX 200 down 3.5% today
Gold US2,480 /OZ ✔️
BBOZ ETF up over 8% ✔️- gold, bear ETFs and cash

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Michael Smith

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Timothy Birdnow

"Government is not reason, it is not eloquence-it is force! Like fire it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master"

George Washington

This courtesy of Lynn Chu:

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Michael Smith

There have been a couple of important insights published this past week about the rising incompetence in our institutions, reminding us that civilizations simply forget how to do things, especially when those things are done by "somebody else" and smaller and smaller groups are trusted with the knowhow.

Boeing is a recent example. Not much use for an airplane company that has forgotten how to build aircraft. There is a difference between reading about how to build an aircraft and actually having the knowledge and skill to build one.

Elon Musk said. "Just like the Egyptians forgot how to build pyramids, we may forget how to build spaceships. So, we should build the spaceships and make life multiplanetary while it is possible."

History is filled with things we rediscover because earlier civilizations have forgotten them and then disappeared.

Glenn Reynolds' Substack on this is a must read.


Glenn Harlan Reynolds | Substack
substack.com

Tim adds:

Musk said ". So, we should build the spaceships and make life multiplanetary while it is possible."

I agree. But why is it there is so much resistance to doing that?

For starters, if we do we forever break the power of the internationalists. Their whole one world scheme is predicated on the idea that there will be no safety valve, no way to get away from them and live and think freely. So they oppose it bitterly. Sadly even some good conservatives have fallen for the "why waste money in space" line. Why? It's not wasted. There are unbelievable resources in space. The Ruling Class knows that but their power is derived from their money and it is control of resources that gives them both. New, inexhaustible sources of wealth destroys their dreams of world socialism.

And most money spent on space is spent ON EARTH, and mainly in R and D.

I would point out we actually cannot build the Saturn V again. We THREW AWAY THE SPECS. It would have to be reverse-engineered if we wanted to use it again. That is an example of forgetting what we once knew - to our detriment.

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While overspending is at the root of this inflation - and the Fed exploded the money supply to cover the Covid spending spree and subsequent Biden "stimulus" everything this administration has done has been antithetical to real growth, which is the only way you can overcome more dollars in the system. Look at his push for "green energy" and his assaults on fuel prices; Biden promised to jack gas prices up. Well, all of this puts inflationary pressure on across the board in the market as everything costs more to transport and we don't live in a local economy. Making stuff costs more because electricity is more expensive, shipping costs more because of higher fuel prices, etc. This all is expressed in reduced economic growth to cover the extra dollars so voila! Inflation.

Diane M. Kimura

Q: Is "transitory” referencing inflation or the rate of the slow down in inflation?

A: IMO, it is the latter

Why? Because Biden’s weak leadership led to global conflicts and the remilitarization of the world which are inflationary.

Bidenomics constrain supply of needed commodities and interfere with free markets.

Spending on proxy wars raises demand by U.S. MIC workers on consumer goods while doing little to raise output of consumer goods. Spending on "guns” AND "butter” without adequate investment in new capacity due to high interest rates is itself inflationary.

Hundreds of millions of US "aid and support” are lost to inefficiency and corruption.

Tariffs on imports are directly inflationary.

The anemic growth in GDP is due to Biden|Harris attempting to offset to these forces is a massive influx of new labor across the border, but this has hit a political constraint.

Bidenomics is a prescription for persistently high inflation, bigger government, millions of people added to welfare rolls, strains on housing, schools, and healthcare.

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Beverly McCall Goff

It’s unbelievable that the censorship we see accelerating in Europe & Canada has made it into America where we have a first amendment! But is NY really an American city anymore if they behave like China & surveil the citizens & threaten to jail them for speech the government doesn’t like!

New York announces it will take citizen surveillance and censorship to the next level
standingforfreedom.com

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James Doogue

A fascinating read by Dr David Bell. Here's the ABSTRACT:

The World Health Organization's broad definition of health embraces physical, mental and social well-being. Expressed in its 1946 constitution alongside concepts of community participation and national sovereignty, it reflected an understanding of a world emerging from centuries of colonialist oppression and the public health industry's shameful facilitation of fascism. Health policy would be people-centered, closely tied to human rights and self-determination. The COVID-19 response has demonstrated how these ideals have been undone. Decades of increasing funding within public-private partnerships have corroded the basis of global public health. The COVID-19 response, intended for a virus that overwhelmingly targeted the elderly, ignored norms of epidemic management and human rights to institute a regime of suppression, censorship, and coercion reminiscent of the power systems and governance that were previously condemned. Without pausing to examine the costs, the public health industry is developing international instruments and processes that will entrench these destructive practices in international law. Public health, presented as a series of health emergencies, is being used once again to facilitate a fascist approach to societal management. The beneficiaries will be the corporations and investors whom the COVID-19 response served well. Human rights and individual freedom, as under previous fascist regimes, will lose. The public health industry must urgently awaken to the changing world in which it works, if it is to adopt a role in saving public health rather than contributing to its degradation.

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Jules Kunofsky

"It’s only Abortion but I like it, like it, yes I do”

The fog of politics is always top of mind. The other day I was listening to the fabulous Rolling Stones, but this is what my sick mind heard. It made me think that I should be for Abortion, unlimited without any conditions and even taxpayer funded. I’ll defend my position for abortion later.

First, this is the song I heard. I won’t write the entire song:

"If I could stick my hand in its heart
And spill it all over the stage
Would it satisfy ya, would it slide on by ya
Would you think that I’m strange? Ain't he strange?”

"If I could win ya, if I could sing ya
A love song so divine
Would it be enough for your cheating heart
If I broke down and cried? If I cried?”

"I said I know it's only Abortion but I like it
I know it's only Abortion but I like it, like it, yes, I do
Oh, well, I like it, I like it, I like it
I said can't you see that this old boy has been a lonely?”

"If I could stick a knife in its heart
Killing it right on stage
Would it be enough for your teenage lust
Would it help to ease the pain? Ease your brain?”

For starters, if Trump wins, abortion will remain a state issue. If Trump loses, somehow legalized abortion will find its way into the Constitution of the U.S. or all State Constitutions. I’d be for it because, life would become next to worthless in a woke, socialist government. Children would never again grow up with the quality upbringing that I had.

The woke socialists have corrupted and will further corrupt:

-The Sciences, including the study of climate, the study of diseases (See covid and the gain of function research), medicine testing, gender studies (see Tampons in men’s rooms), Carbon as a pollutant, biological men competing as women, and energy efficiency. (Just to name a few).

-Elections: The woke socialists had a coup to dispose of their Presidential candidate without giving us a reason and without following the Constitution. They selected a Presidential candidate who selected a VP candidate, and our country doesn’t even know who the President is right now. Can we trust a Party that has no voting and lied to the public about the mental abilities of Joe Biden? All this while spying on the opposition Party and indicting the leader with ridiculous charges while ignoring the rule of law and the Constitution.

-Law and order: Paid activists using violence and intimidation and chaos to close cities on demand and pressure all citizens. All this and city leaders hold back the police.

-Academia: Our University studies are now dominated with woke professors teaching that Capitalism is bad and communism is good. The agenda also includes CRT (Critical Race Theory that discriminates against White people), Jew hatred (Especially against the existence of Israel), DEI (Diversity, Equity and Inclusion) which opposes Equal rights as defined in the Constitution.

-Business: Forced to discriminate with DEI regulations, again denying Equal rights as defined in the Constitution.

-Government ownership/control of the media translating into NO Justice and No Freedoms: We are not permitted free thought anymore. All information comes from the government approved sources filtered to the media. This is not America without "Free Thought”.

I didn’t even mention Open Borders, Inflation, financing global wars, redefining terrorist groups as non-terror groups. Add all this to ignoring the Constitution and Weaponizing a corrupt Government.

Is it worth starting your life in this country if the Democrats get control? It isn’t our America anymore!!!

So, I say, Bring on Abortion

"I said, I know it's only Abortion but I like it
I said, I know it's only Abortion but I like it
I know it's only Abortion but I like it
I know it's only Abortion but I like it, like it, yes, I do
Oh, well, I like it, I like it. I like it. I like it. I like it. I like it.
It's only Abortion but I like it
It's only Abortion but I like it
It's only Abortion but I like it
It's only Abortion but I like it
It's only Abortion but I like it
It's only Abortion but I like it
It's only Abortion but I like it
It's only Abortion but I like it
It's only Abortion but I like it
It's only Abortion but I like it
It's only Abortion but I like it
It's only Abortion but I like it
I like it.
I like it.
I like it.
Oh yeah I like it
I like it”

Tim adds:

I hope you don't give them any ideas; how long before they start filming abortions and put them online, or on television? They would like that. Until now they wouldn't have dared. But if they take power in November they just might.

Abortion is actually decimating the Left, but not fast enough to eliminate their threat. Once they get control they will create a machine that keeps control. They are excellent at that. And then how long will it be before we have forced abortions and sterilizations like in China? When that happens it won't be the Left being sterilized.

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Michael Smith

Every chance I get, I try to talk to people from the other side of the political spectrum as a sanity check in case I am missing something.

On Friday, I had a chance to talk to several Democrats I know personally and asked 1) are they supporting the Harris/Walz ticket and 2) if so, why?

Of those supporting (a couple were undecided), not a single one could name any positive reason that wasn't based on conjecture or was factually wrong. The negative reasons not to vote for Trump were basically the same - conjecture (he is going to be an authoritarian) or factually wrong (mostly coming from MSNBC).

Not a single one could name anything Harris had done as VP and none knew anything about Walz until last week.

They were completely unaware of the full context of many of the media clips they are being fed by MSNBC and the Harris campaign. When I told them I never take a quote from either side at face value, they looked surprised. I said I always go find a transcript or a full video, which typically takes a few minutes - when I asked if they ever did that, they said there was no need, if it wasn't true the media wouldn't report it.

I have one question I pose because it tells me how economically savvy they are - I ask if they or their kids wanted to rent an apartment or buy a house, what is more important, low interest rates and high inventory of homes and apartments or government subsidies and rent/interest controls.

None of them said the former, they all favored some sort of government aid or intervention in the housing markets. They were completely unaware that price controls create scarcity and make things more expensive rather than less.

When I said Obamacare did not lower the cost of health insurance, they didn't believe me. I had to show them that what people who qualified were paying was only a part of what the real premiums were and the taxpayer is making up the difference. Real insurance premiums have actually gone up with the taxpayer making up the difference.

"But incomes are up," one person said.

"Sure, but purchasing power is down," I replied. "Have you noticed that you have more money but can afford to buy less?"

Of the people supporting Harris, I asked an additional question - "Do you think Biden was a good president?"

Unsurprisingly, they said he was - and when I asked why, they named off the titles of the policies and EO's he executed but couldn't name the substance or any actual positive results. To a person, they claimed success wouldn't be seen until some point in the future and they blamed Republicans for blocking his policies, "greedy corporations" for inflation, and Trump for the national debt.

This was certainly a very small sample, but based on what I see in the media, it might be representative of the larger Democrat Party.

I've done this since the Clinton administration and I can say, at least anecdotally, this is the least informed/most misinformed Democrat group I have spoken with.

A very small subset were those who were undecided. I asked them if that meant they would vote for another candidate or not vote at all - all replied the most likely action would be the latter, they are thinking about not voting.

There is a huge knowledge gap out there and there seems to be even less curiosity about things than ever before. Giving people information is like giving them stuff, stuff given is less appreciated than stuff earned.

People need to do a little research on their own, in essence to earn what they know and not have it spoon fed to them, that's why I try to talk directly to people outside my world when I can.

Tim replies:

This reminds me of a little movie I saw once starring Jerry O'Connell and Sam Elliott named "The Ranger, the Cook and the Hole in the Sky". O'Connell is a brash young teenager and he works for the U.S. forest service. There's another kid working there who never has his own opinion; he simply parrots whatever someone else says. O'Connell confronts him:

"Did you ever in your life have an opinion that didn't bounce from somewhere else? I mean,did you ever look at all the available evidence, keep what you could prove, discard what you couldn't, and come up with your own original viewpoint?"

The kid replied:

"Why would I go to all that trouble?"

That is at least half of the entire electorate and all Democrats. It's just easier to accept the word of the media than to research and think and come up with your own position.

And it's inexcusable in an era where information is at your fingertips - but that has only made it worse as there is so much to be sifted through now and they suffer sensory overload. Easier to just let the media tell them what to think and internalize those views as their own. After all, it's the "majority view" in their minds and who wants to go against the majority?

In short they are herd animals and follow the leader. Herd animals are always prey.

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John Lees

A response I wrote to a claim I have seen that a 3°C rise in global average temps will render the human race extinct:

It's also worth pointing out that even the average annual temperature of the regions of the world varies by more than 40°C from one inhabited region to another.
So, if we shift all of these temperatures up by 3°C, then we will simply see a shift in the situation, when some of the most extremely hot regions become more uninhabitable and some of the uninhabitable cold regions become more habitable.

Similarly for flora and fauna, which will tend to shift northward.

Why this effect will render the human race extinct, is not clear.

People are not potted plants, when a situation becomes intolerable then they either move away, of use their technological genius to adapt.

People currently live in such inhospitable regions as Dubai.

They live their in great number and are entirely comfortable.

But, if they were not, then they can leave and move north to where it is naturally cooler.


Tim adds:

During the late Triassic and early Jurassic it WAS that much warmer and life didn't just hang on as it does now in marginal places like Antarctica or Baffin Island or South Georgia but it thrived everywhere. (BTW CO2 was five times higher then than now.)

This claim is just silly. Life likes a warmer and wetter climate than the current interglacial age with too low carbon dioxide levels.

Siberia , Northern Canada, all the arctic islands, and the whole continent of Antarctica and it's satellite islands would open up in a worst-case scenario for us. It would be a golden age.

Crop cultivation has shifted north and south as climate has shifted over the centuries and it didn't hurt anybody. British vinters had to go out of business but they switched to importing wines from France and Spain and Portugal and wound up creating Port Wine in one of those ventures. There are plenty of good crops to grow. And now, with hybridization and other human genetic intervention, we can MAKE crops that grow in unsuitable areas. Canada is too cold for most vinifera grapes, for instance, but they grow plenty of hybrids there. If southern France becomes too warm to grow traditional French grapes they can start growing Spanish grapes. All that is needed is to replant to fix this "problem".

 Humans are not suited to cold climates. We evolved in a hot climate in the rift valleys of Africa. But we simply adapted to less than ideal conditions using technology. All life adapts to changing climate and always has. Some species die out - but only in the form they take at present. Most of the time they change form to better fit conditions.

There are no wooly mammoths around but there are elephants, their children. They just lost the shaggy coat. Even the dinosaurs live on in the birds we see today.

And the warm creatures like crocodiles survived total disasters and ice ages. They evolved during the late Triassic, 200 my ago and survived the extinction of the dinosaurs. No, I don't think this is doomsday at all.

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Trump's going to have a hard time getting inflation under control because it is now institutionalized and Trump is going to be faced with the daunting task of rebuilding our military and infrastructure after Biden purposely dismantled it, and at the same time he's going to have to fight Congress over spending.

The Federal Reserve pumped up the money supply to avoid a harsh recession when Congress blew so much money during the last days of Pandemic and during the whole Biden Presidency. Had they gone to a tight money policy the economy would have crashed. So they printed a bunch up and we saw skyrocketing inflation. Trump is going to come into that mess.

It's going to take a while for pro-growth policies to start catching up with the exploding money supply and of course the Media will hammer Trump on it, and the GOP in Congress will grow frightened like prey animals always do and will send giant omnibus spending bills to Trump. Trump will either have to sign to keep peace with his own RINO wing or he'll have to face a government shutdown. His task is daunting.

Biden had no such problems; he just wanted to blow all of our money to make America poorer, thus achieving "equity" with the Third World and at the same time buy votes and funnel money to his party.

Basically we tried to commit economic suicide under Biden and Trump will come in (assuming the election isn't stolen from him) like a paramedic coming on the scene where the patient has slit her wrists and is bleeding out. He will have to take swift action but it may not be enough.

So don't expect an economic miracle right away. It took a nasty recession in the early eighties before Reagan's tax realignment program kicked in. There was enormous pressure on Reagan to end his policies and go back to the Carter policies which caused all the trouble in the first place. But Reagan stood firm and there were enough Republicans in Congress to stick by him to hold the line until Reaganomics started working. Sadly Mr. Trump will be more readily abandoned by the GOP; this isn't the Republican Party of the eighties.

I certainly do not envy Trump. If you think they went after him hard last time...

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Well, now we know who the Chinese Communists want in power.

Tim Walz has Fawned Over Communis china; "Doesn't Have to be Adversarial Relationship"

Walz lived there for a time and is pleased as punch with the worker's paradise.

There is a real possibility Walz has done some work for the Chicoms espionage system.

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