There are only two courts that count for our President; the Supreme Court, and the court of public opinion. In both I’d say he’s doing alright. All the others are just flailing away at him, exposing themselves for the corruptocrats they are.
But we sure are learning about their glaring deficiencies, aren’t we? The Wise Latina ain’t so much wise as a total screamer who sees racial overtones everywhere (and arrests as “kidnappings“) and Jackson Brown as a nincompoop who writes her dissents with crayons.
"The Load Out" is a great song and gets cranked up on Sirius when I am driving and then played back a few more times. Great "rolling down the highway" song.
Loved singing that female backup part in my 1978 band. Rosemary Butler, if I recall correctly.
Learned a fair amount from Jackson back in the day on songwriting on piano. My songs did improve, however, when in this century I got back to stringed instruments. During the past decade I really learned how John Prine could work his magic with 3 chords and still make it different every time.
Jackson did write "Take It Easy," one of the greatest Eagles covers, but not really entirely. It was one of the Eagles (Don H? forget which) who contributed the "girl my lord flatbed Ford" line, which utterly makes the tune.
She seems to have turned a corner over the course of these last 7 months though, her votes aligning more with the conservative court decisions. She handled Norah O’Donnell, (who was merely vomiting Democrat talking points in the form of questions) pretty masterfully over the weekend, as she is currently doing interviews touting her new book.
Even Supreme Court judges can learn a thing or two. Better late than never, and pray God she remains on the right track.
I recall that when DJT nominated Kavanaugh a lot of folks on the right were upset that he didn't pick ACB - they thought Kavanaugh was suspect but ACB was 100% solid. Neither were great picks. I just hope that they don't drift further left like many Republican nominated justices have done.
You ,too have noted the tendency to tilt with tenure in some [conservative ?] justices while true jurists ala Thomas follow the job requirements as outlined [not suggested] per our constitution.
I haven't researched this but has there ever been a SC Justice appointed by a DEM that veered to the right. I don't know of any in recent times. DEM's polluted the process when Biden & Ted Kennedy went after Bork & it continues to this day. The DEM's have a litmus test, but the GOP is all too willing to confirm anyone a DEM nominates.
‘’Mr. Trump’s immigration crackdown has made it harder for many businesses to find workers…willing to work for other than slave wages.” There. Fixed it.
Your "fix" is well-stated. Whenever I hear of employers having difficulty finding workers, my response is always, "have you tried offering higher wages?" Such is received as a vampire does to sunlight.
Anyone who thinks that Congress is able to actually direct our tariff policies only has to look at how it handles spending our tax dollars. Total incompetence with an unacceptable measure of venality!
I’ll continue to argue that post WWII trade deficits are part of our world wide welfare package while the immigration programs have followed the (largely but not exclusively) Democrat policy of importing slave labor for commerce and sex. We enabled the welfare programs of former allies while they disabled their self defense capabilities. And we allowed the continuation of slave trade, to our moral, civic and economic detriment.
The idea of a one-world government has appeal, but it should be the govt of the USA, not Somalia. Teach the world how to come up to our level, don’t bring us down to theirs.
The economic lessons of Trump are difficult to explain and understand, especially to a zombied populace who rarely pays attention to anything unless it involves a stimulus check.
Trump is redoing the economy to fix all the cheap, easy 'handout' fixes that produced short-term results for someone's upcoming election. Trump is doing the HARD WORK of systematically correcting those shortcuts. As Reagan proved, it is the best long-term solution.
While I don’t usually consider myself part of the zombie class, this stuff is so beyond my pay grade (I barely understood Don’s post) that all I have to hold onto is right is right.
I have been a disciple of Milton Friedman for decades, however, it is hard to square free market economics with the overwhelming influence of Chinese market intrusions.
Because we stopped being a producer and shipped all our manufacturing overseas. Trump’s economic policy relies on multiple facets to be successful, and restoring manufacturing is one of those critical components, along with the tariffs, tax cuts and interest rates.
That’s why the Dems are fighting each of these elements tooth and nail, damn the consequences.
You are so right, Suzie. We must stay the course! PDJT is doing something no one has ever attempted. He is like a juggler adding two more balls to an already dizzying array of fiscal items. They must all stay in the air to achieve the harmony Trump is seeking.
The problem is that it takes time to restore and restart our domestic manufacturing system. Unfortunately, most people are shortsighted and impatient. The liberals and their lapdogs, the media, know this and use it to their advantage to sow discontent in the populace.
We have pretty much lost the work ethic in this country as well but one's disposition can change when their belly gets empty. Let's take a harder look at welfare and food stamp programs. Its not a sin to be hungry.
I agree with you and would add that free market capitalism is literally a gift from God. It works perfectly with human nature's desire to survive and thrive but just like a democratic republic it must be administered in a judeo-christian moral environment. The world is not run by fully moral people and judeo-christian teachings allow us to defend ourselves from immoral behavior from the Chinese and others.
Some of those Made in labels LIE. Things like it being cheaper to ship live chickens to China and have CHINA process the damn things and ship us back processed meat. I dont remember the reasoning but if it was US meat or they package it back here and send it bulk, it still gets labeled US meat. That doesnt include all the work arounds the auto industry came up with. Tightening the last screw in the US means it could be labeled as US products.
Minutes before reading this post I read Brian Wesbury’s (chief economist at First Trust - dunno if it’s available to the public, might only be for registered financial industry professionals) weekly commentary on this very topic. My take (not that anyone besides my clients GAF) is that PDJT’s America First policies are reducing illegal alien and gubmint employment, tariffs and regulations are upsetting the status quo. It will take some time to reach a new equilibrium and these lower numbers are not a bad thing. A good rule of thumb is to remember “we’re from The Government and we’re full of crap.” Just keep your seatbelts fastened and your tray tables closed for the foreseeable future.
The lowering of interest rates will be precisely the kick in the ass the economy is waiting for at this most critical juncture, which is why the Fed, under its current Democrat leadership, has been deliberately resistant to do so. They know damn well that that one act will set off a chain reaction boom throughout every sector of the economy.
Yes , although we will probably have to add some Teddy Roosevelt trust busting . The globalist conglomerates are sucking the souls out of our communities .
And the Big Tech giants are cooperating in China with surveillance and control of people. They were also doing that with the Democrats in the US. Siri, Alexa, etc., are primarily surveillance devices.
We’ll see. I’m a big believer in the power of The Fed, the same way i was a believer in the power of the Wizard of Oz (“pay no attention to the man behind the curtain “). Overnight / Fed Funds rates aren’t so relevant ever since The Fed went to ZIRP following The Great Financial Crisis. Longer maturity rates, like on the 10 year treasury, are much more important, and The Fed has little control over those.
Flags made here, flown here, respected here, honored here. Head coverings for women - Go back to wherever you came from to get your head covers, and don't come back. Don't worry. Your men will be along shortly, either on their own or with the help of the real people of the United States of America, represented by ICE.
Next, when court decisions are decided by political bias, we need to rethink how judges are chosen. Party lines should not determine "truth and justice". I like tariffs. I'm tired of having my beautiful country treated like a rug by a bunch of 2nd and 3rd world 'America Wannabes'.
Down-sized federal employees have never had to understand or respond to issues of 'shareholder value'. They haven't a clue. Revenue is endless and spending doesn't have to be justified.
I would love to be a fly on the wall for any of them the first time their boss has a one-on-one to tell that employee they aren't producing enough fast enough and will need to work harder and deliver more and possibly take a pay cut so the quarterly/year-end financials meet analyst forecasts.
I want to be a fly on the wall when pay and job security is directly tied to financial performance metrics and the employee is being told they didn't hit the numbers and will have adverse changes to their position.
You are asking rhetorically (I assume) but just in case you aren't:
A pay cut occurred occasionally in the business down-cycles back when companies were based in America and producing products. I'm in the heart of it in Northeast Ohio, and built my early career in manufacturing management in the late 1980's and '90s. Back then, there were a few down-cycles that resulted in 7% to 10% pay cuts. The companies with which I was familiar both moved work offshore. By the late 1990s, that was the beginning of the China consumption of American manufacturing.
Yes, rhetorical, or what I intended was snark, aimed toward many of the now unemployed public workers who instead of looking for another job, went to court and sued.
It's like when I worked at an electrical generating plant and a scholar came (working on his dissertation for his Phd) to spend several weeks with the worker bees on the job to see how the U.S. was going to transfer the experience to the newbies coming in because big corporate had stopped hiring along the way for the past two decades.
What he learned is that experience is just that "experience". There is no magic powder. He also confirmed that 10 percent of the workers do 80% of the work and 10% of the workers do nothing at all. Before he left I asked him if he had heard of the adage, "Those that can, do. Those that can't, teach. Those that can't do or teach, administrate."
He laughed. I called his University two years later to see if he got his Phd. He did not. I asked them if they would fax me his dissertation. They did. It took a half a pack of paper. lol. lol
As far as today’s poll I look forward to the day we are making flags to sell in China.
I’m also looking forward to Chicago in the next few days and weeks. If Trump and Holman can make Chicago safer with fewer killings and much fewer illegals roaming around then hopefully the folks in other blue run cities and towns will start asking their “leaders” Hey, what about making us safer? The box Dems will be in will keep getting tighter and tighter.
What always gets left out of all these economic reports since Trump became President, is the actual financial and economic trajectory this country was on before, and still could befall us. We were on the Acela train to certain destruction and devastation!
Trump spent his four years in the wilderness to come up with a plan, that being tariffs mainly, which was risky yes, but that could work to reverse that trajectory and give our country a fighting chance to avert disaster.
It’s still early days, and a lot of elements need to come into alignment for it to work, like the tax cuts and interest rates, so the Democrats are throwing every wrench they can think of into the works to try to slow or stop it altogether from succeeding.
It will indeed be Divine Providence Who intervenes to see the plan come to fruition, as a result of the faith and steadfast prayers of each one of us. I, for one, don’t believe the Lord brought us this far to see it all collapse.
In this stark battle of good vs. evil we are now engaged in, crime, corruption, violence and perversity versus common sense, the entire country is being tested to see on whose side we will choose to stand.
“And if it seem evil unto you to serve the Lord, choose you this day whom ye will serve; whether the gods which your fathers served that were on the other side of the flood, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land ye dwell: but as for me and my house, we will serve the Lord.”
You make a good point, about the economic trajectory under the Biden Autopen™. I am always thinking about this notion even more broadly—to consider what was going on in this country at every level, before Trump 47. The hideous waste of money by USAID, the foreign policy shitshow (esp regarding Gaza and Ukraine), the wide-open border, all the horrid Title IX trans directives, the girliness and racial grievance-mongering in the military, DEI corroding everything, and finally—just the national humiliation of a doddering senile crook as the Chief Executive appearing on the world stage. A president who "called a lid" at 11am because he needed a nap.
I can't listen to any criticism of Trump without remembering what was happening during the Biden years. I can't credit any critique of him from people who believe that we would be better off with Harris, another idiot figurehead whose presidency would have been run by her unelected staff and by people outside of government.
A well described summary; "hideous" is the word alright. And you're right, to keep things in perspective we have to regularly remind ourselves how catastrophic it would have been if Kamala had become President
She was a ridiculous candidate. It says so much about the state of the Democrat party that they would foist the corpse-puppet of Joe Biden on us in 2020, and then in 2024 foist by bait-and-switch that foolish and incompetent woman upon us, pretending that either one of them could be any sort of executive, much less leader of the free world.
The Democratic party can not come back from this. They went way, way, too far.
The only way they could come back, is for us to abandon our job of talking one-to-one with the liberals we know to pierce their information bubble and wake them up. No one of us is responsible for the "total conversion" of any particular liberal, and we may do better talking with people who are not our family (i.e., not holding "termination of relationship" over our heads). But each of us (which are MILLIONS and MILLIONS) can regularly choose to not hide from conversations and can interject points here and there, and recommendations of better news sources. All of us communicating widely means liberals will encounter lots of different people consistently pointing the way to waking up. This can be very effective.
I only have one problem with your synopsis. The good vs. evil. God uses or allows evil by blinding the eyes of evil unbelievers so that they destroy themselves. (A homosexual relationship can't reproduce and its physically and mentally unhealthy.) The whole purpose of our fall into debauchery is to cause adversity for the elects sake that they might persevere. So its not about the U.S. staying solvent. God always wins as He wills and moves in this world preparing His Bride for the Wedding Feast. Even so Lord come quickly.
i find it hard to believe that businesses are having a difficult time hiring because illegals are going home. 45 million are on snap (ebt cards). 100 million are on welfare of some sort.
a free lunch isn't free. someone somewhere is always writing that check. as some would say, america doesn't have an income problem, it has a spending problem.
My Mantra for years. 🎵 It's time to wind up masquerade. Just make your mind up, the piper must be paid. Even freedom is not free. And then Dandy Don would sing The Party's Over. RIP< lunatic left.
The product of the Charlotte Blue Line is bringing consumers to Charlotte businesses.
If a commercial firm created the Charlotte Blue Line light rail system, baiting customer with free or low cost rides without the slightest protection it would be financially bankrupt in addition to being morally bankrupt. (It’s a self protection free zone, without effective law enforcement)
Back in the mid-seventies, I was having a discussion with a very smart friend, who had a degree in engineering from RPI and was running a machine shop business with his older brother. He was very concerned about our loss of manufacturing. If we don’t manufacture, all that’s left are low paying service jobs he said to me. At that time, we had mayors that didn’t want smokestack jobs, but clean electronics manufacturing. So steel mills closed and the Japanese and Nigerians made our steel. I remember how our manufacturing base turned out planes, tanks, ships, guns, etc. during WW2. How can we do that today when Germans, Japanese, and Koreans make most of our cars here? Chrysler is owned by a crazy French conglomerate, leaving only GM and Ford as our only American auto manufacturers. US Steel is for all intents and purposes Japanese owned and Bethlehem Steel is long gone. If war breaks out we’ll have to nationalize all foreign owned facilities. This is why the Trumpster has to rebuild our manufacturing base and tariff the crap out of these foreigners who have locked us out of their countries for the past eighty years. It is imperative that Republicans retain control of Congress. Keep that in mind and vote early and often, like Democrats.
Democrats and the media hate people like me. I am old enough to remember the inflation of the sixties caused by LBJ and Jimmy Carter. And Nixon (I just want to be loved) to a lesser degree. It took Reagan 6 years to reign in inflation. My first mortgage rate was 12.25% in 1985, four years into his term.
And we expect Trump to solve all our economic woes in 7 months? The economic ship-of-state moves slowly. Sometimes glacially. But it will change course if we just keep the faith that our current leadership is pointing us in the right direction. Such faith worked for Reagan and it will work for Mr. Trump. I, for one, trust Trump far more than I do the New York Times!
There are only two courts that count for our President; the Supreme Court, and the court of public opinion. In both I’d say he’s doing alright. All the others are just flailing away at him, exposing themselves for the corruptocrats they are.
Sure, he's doing "alright". But not as well as if he would without 3 DIE hires on the court and a cowardly Chief Justice.
But we sure are learning about their glaring deficiencies, aren’t we? The Wise Latina ain’t so much wise as a total screamer who sees racial overtones everywhere (and arrests as “kidnappings“) and Jackson Brown as a nincompoop who writes her dissents with crayons.
I liked "Running on Empty", but generally I find Jackson Brown's songs to be a bit too girly. But even so, he's still a "he".
"The Load Out" is a great song and gets cranked up on Sirius when I am driving and then played back a few more times. Great "rolling down the highway" song.
One of the best live albums ever imho.
Loved singing that female backup part in my 1978 band. Rosemary Butler, if I recall correctly.
Learned a fair amount from Jackson back in the day on songwriting on piano. My songs did improve, however, when in this century I got back to stringed instruments. During the past decade I really learned how John Prine could work his magic with 3 chords and still make it different every time.
Jackson did write "Take It Easy," one of the greatest Eagles covers, but not really entirely. It was one of the Eagles (Don H? forget which) who contributed the "girl my lord flatbed Ford" line, which utterly makes the tune.
Don't forget the Chief Justice's little side kick, ACB. She came through for Roe v Wade but not much else.
She seems to have turned a corner over the course of these last 7 months though, her votes aligning more with the conservative court decisions. She handled Norah O’Donnell, (who was merely vomiting Democrat talking points in the form of questions) pretty masterfully over the weekend, as she is currently doing interviews touting her new book.
Even Supreme Court judges can learn a thing or two. Better late than never, and pray God she remains on the right track.
we'll see come october. i'll never trust her again. a tiger is a tiger.
I recall that when DJT nominated Kavanaugh a lot of folks on the right were upset that he didn't pick ACB - they thought Kavanaugh was suspect but ACB was 100% solid. Neither were great picks. I just hope that they don't drift further left like many Republican nominated justices have done.
You ,too have noted the tendency to tilt with tenure in some [conservative ?] justices while true jurists ala Thomas follow the job requirements as outlined [not suggested] per our constitution.
I haven't researched this but has there ever been a SC Justice appointed by a DEM that veered to the right. I don't know of any in recent times. DEM's polluted the process when Biden & Ted Kennedy went after Bork & it continues to this day. The DEM's have a litmus test, but the GOP is all too willing to confirm anyone a DEM nominates.
You forgot a senate full of rinos
There is not one word in the presidents Article 2 powers that includes "judicial" anything.
Damn these 'people'.
‘’Mr. Trump’s immigration crackdown has made it harder for many businesses to find workers…willing to work for other than slave wages.” There. Fixed it.
Your "fix" is well-stated. Whenever I hear of employers having difficulty finding workers, my response is always, "have you tried offering higher wages?" Such is received as a vampire does to sunlight.
They always forget the last part, dont they/
Anyone who thinks that Congress is able to actually direct our tariff policies only has to look at how it handles spending our tax dollars. Total incompetence with an unacceptable measure of venality!
And, if they do, there will soon be 'bribes' (legal lobbying incentives) paid to them for certain vote outcomes.
Congress is basically corrupt to the core.
I’ll continue to argue that post WWII trade deficits are part of our world wide welfare package while the immigration programs have followed the (largely but not exclusively) Democrat policy of importing slave labor for commerce and sex. We enabled the welfare programs of former allies while they disabled their self defense capabilities. And we allowed the continuation of slave trade, to our moral, civic and economic detriment.
The idea of a one-world government has appeal, but it should be the govt of the USA, not Somalia. Teach the world how to come up to our level, don’t bring us down to theirs.
Nailed it. TY
The economic lessons of Trump are difficult to explain and understand, especially to a zombied populace who rarely pays attention to anything unless it involves a stimulus check.
Trump is redoing the economy to fix all the cheap, easy 'handout' fixes that produced short-term results for someone's upcoming election. Trump is doing the HARD WORK of systematically correcting those shortcuts. As Reagan proved, it is the best long-term solution.
While I don’t usually consider myself part of the zombie class, this stuff is so beyond my pay grade (I barely understood Don’s post) that all I have to hold onto is right is right.
Keep holding on, Sheila. You'll get there with the rest of us. You are in the right place.
Right on and well put.
I have been a disciple of Milton Friedman for decades, however, it is hard to square free market economics with the overwhelming influence of Chinese market intrusions.
Because we stopped being a producer and shipped all our manufacturing overseas. Trump’s economic policy relies on multiple facets to be successful, and restoring manufacturing is one of those critical components, along with the tariffs, tax cuts and interest rates.
That’s why the Dems are fighting each of these elements tooth and nail, damn the consequences.
Pray much! 🙏♥️🙏
You are so right, Suzie. We must stay the course! PDJT is doing something no one has ever attempted. He is like a juggler adding two more balls to an already dizzying array of fiscal items. They must all stay in the air to achieve the harmony Trump is seeking.
Those balls actually all need to land in synch together to make the plan work.
And time is of the essence.
The enemy knows this, too.
The problem is that it takes time to restore and restart our domestic manufacturing system. Unfortunately, most people are shortsighted and impatient. The liberals and their lapdogs, the media, know this and use it to their advantage to sow discontent in the populace.
Indeed they do and are!
We need to have patience and faith and stay the course!
We can’t get wobbly!
We have pretty much lost the work ethic in this country as well but one's disposition can change when their belly gets empty. Let's take a harder look at welfare and food stamp programs. Its not a sin to be hungry.
When you consider the obesity rates in our country some fasting couldn't hurt.
I agree with you and would add that free market capitalism is literally a gift from God. It works perfectly with human nature's desire to survive and thrive but just like a democratic republic it must be administered in a judeo-christian moral environment. The world is not run by fully moral people and judeo-christian teachings allow us to defend ourselves from immoral behavior from the Chinese and others.
Again, send the CC (Commie Chinese) stuff back; simple; buy American. Look at the "Made In" labels people.
EODMom, Susie and AZCACTUSPETE for the win (oh and Mr Surber for bringing us all together).
Some of those Made in labels LIE. Things like it being cheaper to ship live chickens to China and have CHINA process the damn things and ship us back processed meat. I dont remember the reasoning but if it was US meat or they package it back here and send it bulk, it still gets labeled US meat. That doesnt include all the work arounds the auto industry came up with. Tightening the last screw in the US means it could be labeled as US products.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/factcheck/2022/07/15/fact-check-years-old-usda-rule-allows-china-process-us-poultry/10031250002/
Minutes before reading this post I read Brian Wesbury’s (chief economist at First Trust - dunno if it’s available to the public, might only be for registered financial industry professionals) weekly commentary on this very topic. My take (not that anyone besides my clients GAF) is that PDJT’s America First policies are reducing illegal alien and gubmint employment, tariffs and regulations are upsetting the status quo. It will take some time to reach a new equilibrium and these lower numbers are not a bad thing. A good rule of thumb is to remember “we’re from The Government and we’re full of crap.” Just keep your seatbelts fastened and your tray tables closed for the foreseeable future.
The lowering of interest rates will be precisely the kick in the ass the economy is waiting for at this most critical juncture, which is why the Fed, under its current Democrat leadership, has been deliberately resistant to do so. They know damn well that that one act will set off a chain reaction boom throughout every sector of the economy.
I tend to agree a lower rate will see many new companies and expansions of existing corporations.
Yes , although we will probably have to add some Teddy Roosevelt trust busting . The globalist conglomerates are sucking the souls out of our communities .
And the Big Tech giants are cooperating in China with surveillance and control of people. They were also doing that with the Democrats in the US. Siri, Alexa, etc., are primarily surveillance devices.
We’ll see. I’m a big believer in the power of The Fed, the same way i was a believer in the power of the Wizard of Oz (“pay no attention to the man behind the curtain “). Overnight / Fed Funds rates aren’t so relevant ever since The Fed went to ZIRP following The Great Financial Crisis. Longer maturity rates, like on the 10 year treasury, are much more important, and The Fed has little control over those.
Flags made here, flown here, respected here, honored here. Head coverings for women - Go back to wherever you came from to get your head covers, and don't come back. Don't worry. Your men will be along shortly, either on their own or with the help of the real people of the United States of America, represented by ICE.
Next, when court decisions are decided by political bias, we need to rethink how judges are chosen. Party lines should not determine "truth and justice". I like tariffs. I'm tired of having my beautiful country treated like a rug by a bunch of 2nd and 3rd world 'America Wannabes'.
I like to think that a good number of the newly unemployed corruptocrats will now have to settle for low pay and hard work.
Part of their problem in life could be that they should have had at least a few such jobs when younger - you know, like the rest of us did!
Down-sized federal employees have never had to understand or respond to issues of 'shareholder value'. They haven't a clue. Revenue is endless and spending doesn't have to be justified.
I would love to be a fly on the wall for any of them the first time their boss has a one-on-one to tell that employee they aren't producing enough fast enough and will need to work harder and deliver more and possibly take a pay cut so the quarterly/year-end financials meet analyst forecasts.
I want to be a fly on the wall when pay and job security is directly tied to financial performance metrics and the employee is being told they didn't hit the numbers and will have adverse changes to their position.
Ah, the Dreaded Private Sector.
The bracing aroma of accountability wafts through those cubicles like morning covfefe. ☕️
lol lol lol
Wait. What’s a “pay cut”??
You are asking rhetorically (I assume) but just in case you aren't:
A pay cut occurred occasionally in the business down-cycles back when companies were based in America and producing products. I'm in the heart of it in Northeast Ohio, and built my early career in manufacturing management in the late 1980's and '90s. Back then, there were a few down-cycles that resulted in 7% to 10% pay cuts. The companies with which I was familiar both moved work offshore. By the late 1990s, that was the beginning of the China consumption of American manufacturing.
Yes, rhetorical, or what I intended was snark, aimed toward many of the now unemployed public workers who instead of looking for another job, went to court and sued.
They are en-titled doncha know .
It's like when I worked at an electrical generating plant and a scholar came (working on his dissertation for his Phd) to spend several weeks with the worker bees on the job to see how the U.S. was going to transfer the experience to the newbies coming in because big corporate had stopped hiring along the way for the past two decades.
What he learned is that experience is just that "experience". There is no magic powder. He also confirmed that 10 percent of the workers do 80% of the work and 10% of the workers do nothing at all. Before he left I asked him if he had heard of the adage, "Those that can, do. Those that can't, teach. Those that can't do or teach, administrate."
He laughed. I called his University two years later to see if he got his Phd. He did not. I asked them if they would fax me his dissertation. They did. It took a half a pack of paper. lol. lol
As far as today’s poll I look forward to the day we are making flags to sell in China.
I’m also looking forward to Chicago in the next few days and weeks. If Trump and Holman can make Chicago safer with fewer killings and much fewer illegals roaming around then hopefully the folks in other blue run cities and towns will start asking their “leaders” Hey, what about making us safer? The box Dems will be in will keep getting tighter and tighter.
What always gets left out of all these economic reports since Trump became President, is the actual financial and economic trajectory this country was on before, and still could befall us. We were on the Acela train to certain destruction and devastation!
Trump spent his four years in the wilderness to come up with a plan, that being tariffs mainly, which was risky yes, but that could work to reverse that trajectory and give our country a fighting chance to avert disaster.
It’s still early days, and a lot of elements need to come into alignment for it to work, like the tax cuts and interest rates, so the Democrats are throwing every wrench they can think of into the works to try to slow or stop it altogether from succeeding.
It will indeed be Divine Providence Who intervenes to see the plan come to fruition, as a result of the faith and steadfast prayers of each one of us. I, for one, don’t believe the Lord brought us this far to see it all collapse.
In this stark battle of good vs. evil we are now engaged in, crime, corruption, violence and perversity versus common sense, the entire country is being tested to see on whose side we will choose to stand.
“And if it seem evil unto you to serve the Lord, choose you this day whom ye will serve; whether the gods which your fathers served that were on the other side of the flood, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land ye dwell: but as for me and my house, we will serve the Lord.”
~ Joshua 24:15
You make a good point, about the economic trajectory under the Biden Autopen™. I am always thinking about this notion even more broadly—to consider what was going on in this country at every level, before Trump 47. The hideous waste of money by USAID, the foreign policy shitshow (esp regarding Gaza and Ukraine), the wide-open border, all the horrid Title IX trans directives, the girliness and racial grievance-mongering in the military, DEI corroding everything, and finally—just the national humiliation of a doddering senile crook as the Chief Executive appearing on the world stage. A president who "called a lid" at 11am because he needed a nap.
I can't listen to any criticism of Trump without remembering what was happening during the Biden years. I can't credit any critique of him from people who believe that we would be better off with Harris, another idiot figurehead whose presidency would have been run by her unelected staff and by people outside of government.
A well described summary; "hideous" is the word alright. And you're right, to keep things in perspective we have to regularly remind ourselves how catastrophic it would have been if Kamala had become President
She was a ridiculous candidate. It says so much about the state of the Democrat party that they would foist the corpse-puppet of Joe Biden on us in 2020, and then in 2024 foist by bait-and-switch that foolish and incompetent woman upon us, pretending that either one of them could be any sort of executive, much less leader of the free world.
The Democratic party can not come back from this. They went way, way, too far.
The only way they could come back, is for us to abandon our job of talking one-to-one with the liberals we know to pierce their information bubble and wake them up. No one of us is responsible for the "total conversion" of any particular liberal, and we may do better talking with people who are not our family (i.e., not holding "termination of relationship" over our heads). But each of us (which are MILLIONS and MILLIONS) can regularly choose to not hide from conversations and can interject points here and there, and recommendations of better news sources. All of us communicating widely means liberals will encounter lots of different people consistently pointing the way to waking up. This can be very effective.
👏🏻 Bravo!
Never forget. Anything.
Be the elephants the R party was named for. And sound the trumpets about it.
I only have one problem with your synopsis. The good vs. evil. God uses or allows evil by blinding the eyes of evil unbelievers so that they destroy themselves. (A homosexual relationship can't reproduce and its physically and mentally unhealthy.) The whole purpose of our fall into debauchery is to cause adversity for the elects sake that they might persevere. So its not about the U.S. staying solvent. God always wins as He wills and moves in this world preparing His Bride for the Wedding Feast. Even so Lord come quickly.
i find it hard to believe that businesses are having a difficult time hiring because illegals are going home. 45 million are on snap (ebt cards). 100 million are on welfare of some sort.
a free lunch isn't free. someone somewhere is always writing that check. as some would say, america doesn't have an income problem, it has a spending problem.
I learned about TANSTAAFL at about 12 and my first job doing a mans work farming from cant see until cant see.
Marlan just diagnosed the disease and its Rx: work for your living. Adam and Eve learned the hard way.
Made me look up TANSTAAFL; good one to know!
I learned that one from Heinlein. Good job, Marian!
My Mantra for years. 🎵 It's time to wind up masquerade. Just make your mind up, the piper must be paid. Even freedom is not free. And then Dandy Don would sing The Party's Over. RIP< lunatic left.
The product of the Charlotte Blue Line is bringing consumers to Charlotte businesses.
If a commercial firm created the Charlotte Blue Line light rail system, baiting customer with free or low cost rides without the slightest protection it would be financially bankrupt in addition to being morally bankrupt. (It’s a self protection free zone, without effective law enforcement)
Back in the mid-seventies, I was having a discussion with a very smart friend, who had a degree in engineering from RPI and was running a machine shop business with his older brother. He was very concerned about our loss of manufacturing. If we don’t manufacture, all that’s left are low paying service jobs he said to me. At that time, we had mayors that didn’t want smokestack jobs, but clean electronics manufacturing. So steel mills closed and the Japanese and Nigerians made our steel. I remember how our manufacturing base turned out planes, tanks, ships, guns, etc. during WW2. How can we do that today when Germans, Japanese, and Koreans make most of our cars here? Chrysler is owned by a crazy French conglomerate, leaving only GM and Ford as our only American auto manufacturers. US Steel is for all intents and purposes Japanese owned and Bethlehem Steel is long gone. If war breaks out we’ll have to nationalize all foreign owned facilities. This is why the Trumpster has to rebuild our manufacturing base and tariff the crap out of these foreigners who have locked us out of their countries for the past eighty years. It is imperative that Republicans retain control of Congress. Keep that in mind and vote early and often, like Democrats.
Minimus, thou art maximus in my eyes!
And thankfully his first name is not Gluteus.
Hah! 👍
Democrats and the media hate people like me. I am old enough to remember the inflation of the sixties caused by LBJ and Jimmy Carter. And Nixon (I just want to be loved) to a lesser degree. It took Reagan 6 years to reign in inflation. My first mortgage rate was 12.25% in 1985, four years into his term.
And we expect Trump to solve all our economic woes in 7 months? The economic ship-of-state moves slowly. Sometimes glacially. But it will change course if we just keep the faith that our current leadership is pointing us in the right direction. Such faith worked for Reagan and it will work for Mr. Trump. I, for one, trust Trump far more than I do the New York Times!