AMERICAN SPIRIT- Not just surviving but prevailing!
UPDATE 4/5/25: Wring your hands, follow the hysterical mob or go with the guy who has the nerve to do what all his predecessors needed to do but feared doing. And what needs doing is compelling foreign countries to lower their exorbitant tariffs at which point we are ready to graciously match them, tit for tat. THEY are already able to make profits selling their products here thanks to OUR relatively low tariffs while WE foolishly allow ourselves to operate at a deficit selling to them thanks to THEIR ridiculously inflated tariffs. No longer. America First, right?
Nope. It’s Blame America First. Or rather, blame Trump first. He is the bad guy even though it’s all their choice, not ours. Don’t count on a rational response from an irrational world, and that includes spooked Wall Street and its stockholders all villainizing Trump for finally ending OUR self-negating policies in international trade.
No good deed goes unpunished. Blame Trump First.
UPDATE 4/5/25: As someone has written, there have been more opinions spouted this week about TARIFFS than there are grains of sand on the beach. Out of the veritable tidal wave of confusion and anxiety washing over us, a single approach offers up a comforting mix of hard realism and justifiable optimism: drop your tariffs, we drop ours. Long live free trade! Those nations early to sign up to Trump’s offer get to do business today in America at the lowest rates; the hold-outs will risk missing out on the bargains currently offered. Remember who wrote The Art Of The Deal?
It’s been on his mind for a LONG time. This is 1988.
UPDATE 4/3/25: It’s been an unsettling week or two with a Wisconsin election (and resultant gerrymandering) threatening in short order to return the House to the Dems. Lawfare obstruction from planted activist stooges in the lower judiciary continues to pop up against anything that moves from the White House. The Dems have gleefully deputized violence-prone, useful idiot lowlifes in their ranks to trash Teslas and intimidate their owners. “Respectable” Dems, pretending to be above such messiness, quietly yearn for ANY Trump failure that might enable a return to the good old Woke wrecking ball days of BrandonWorld. Of primary concern: Will awakened new Trump voters who got him elected prove shaky and flee back to the dark Blue side come the midterms?
Most troubling of all, after a three month honeymoon of repeated winning, there is now a fissure within the MAGA base thanks to “tariffs.” Most of us are not versed in the ways of hardball economics, and it’s imperative that the administration go overboard to make things clear and instill confidence in this roll of the dice.
O’Reilly provides a blessedly clear explanation for the big gamble Trump is taking with this upheaval, a move bolder than any taken by a White House occupant since Teddy Roosevelt brandished his Big Stick against the Robber Barons…and won. The issue is whether America will continue to allow foreign products to be affordable here while our own exports are made unaffordable by the tariffs and regulations imposed by those same countries taking home billions (trillions!) from their American sales.
To add insult to injury, those same countries like China & Mexico, profiting mightily from relatively low tariffs entering American markets, have managed to lure American investment and production to themselves by providing cheap labor, sometimes literally unpaid slave labor. Trump’s vision is to bring back those businesses and investment en masse in determined pursuit of a reborn, industrialized, self-sufficient America. We’ll still be happy to buy coffee from Guatemala and cheap tchotchkes from China, so no seller need go without a consumer. We just won’t be operating at a loss while they thrive.
Will it work? Or are we doomed to a jittery electorate stupidly ceding power back to the Dem/globalist alliance itching to resume its plans for “Transformation,” reducing America permanently to a quiet, subservient place alongside every other enslaved nation overseen on the WEF plantation?
An awful lot riding on this one.
UPDATE 4/2/25: It’s easier to dig a deep hole than climbing out of one. This is the plight of the welfare/government subsidized state aka socialism which America started shooting up like heroin beginning early in the last century. Now addicted to government hand-outs, too many Americans find themselves panicked at the necessity of earning their livelihoods in the private sector. No wonder the Left is finding it so easy to rile up the mindless masses against Elon/Doge and Trump/tariffs despite the fact that, given the chance for full implementation, this vision will provide an abundance of good jobs, low taxes and lower costs for Mr. & Mrs. Average American.
Previous Presidents who very well knew better never have taken these bold and necessary steps precisely because of the short-term political risks: a shaky stock market and outcry over the loss of government subsidies. Going even against many on our side, does one dare believe that it is time to throw that caution aside? Naturally, the predictable fearmongers in DC and their lapdog media have everything to gain from Trump’s failure and are busy spreading outright lies, claiming Social Security and Medicare are on the chopping block. But then we all know how Dems love to lie and push panic buttons. They operate exclusively on fear and division in service to absolute power.
This clip from President Trump may be the most important from the entire Rose Garden speech.
Yes, the markets are going be jittery in the coming days, weeks, and months. But those same people telling Trump he's wrong, have been wrong about nearly every major geopolitical and… pic.twitter.com/QWczwW0bBZ
— Charlie Kirk (@charliekirk11) April 2, 2025
Ben Shapiro expresses well the doubts even diehard MAGA supporters have regarding the tariffs. BUT he gives Trump the benefit of the doubt based on his long history of being a flexible, results-oriented dealmaker. Likewise, other articulate pundits confidently state there is a highly refined method to what seems to be madness, refusing to panic reflexively at dips in the market. Lacking a crystal ball, the rest of us hold our collective breath and hope for the best. If things clearly aren’t working, one hopes he can shift course without sacrificing the mission, ultimately proving all doubters wrong.
Honest doubters include all those who want what’s best for our country, not those mired so deeply in TDS-fueled hatred that they couldn’t applaud a Trump-supporting 13 year old cancer survivor or wish success for a politician totally focused on bringing a war to an end, removing hardened criminals from our midst, restoring common sense and rationality (eg., the existence of two and only two sexes) to everyday life and creating an economic goldrush benefiting all Americans.
MEGA (Make Europe Great Again)
MEMORIAL DAY AND D-DAY
MAKE AMERICA ACCOUNTABLE AGAIN (OPENTHEBOOKS.COM)
DOGE-Dept. of Government Efficiency (Major Work In Progress)
UPDATE 4/5/25: Next on the DOGE docket: ILLOGICALLY rich members of Congress. Uh oh. They might stop liking Elon and Trump.
UPDATE 4/2/25: What do you do all day? If everyone approached by the DOGE crew would and could answer that question honestly backed up by hard evidence of productive activity, there might be fewer reasons to hate DOGE as the usual suspects do.
UPDATE 4/1/25: The now-infamous DC Judge Boasberg has become the go-to guy for obstructing anything from the White House. Sure beats earning an honest living.
Like father, like daughter. Seems getting rid of violent illegals is bad for Boasberg family business.
(In search of) AN AMERICAN MARGARET THATCHER
UPDATE 4/2/25: In our giddiness over the Trump restoration, we forgot that the metastatic Woke Mind Virus is not easy to extract from the poisoned American blood stream. Most TDS sufferers (unfortunately most Dems) quietly applaud the criminal assault on Teslas, but Elon is just the inconvenient guy standing in the way of their real target.
And you’ll also find your moral compass in the lost-and-found.
CASSANDRAS-WARNINGS FALLING ON DEAF EARS
ELECTION FRAUD-America In The Balance
UPDATE 4/3/25: The latest bit of lawfare madness is a suit filed to block Trump’s EO requiring U.S. citizenship to vote.
FYI…if the law matters.
JANUARY 6-Deep State Tyranny vs A Nation of a Trillion Sparks
PLANNED PARENTHOOD/SELLING ABORTED BABY BODY PARTS
CALIFORNICATION/DETROITING OF AMERICA
CLASSLESS, GENDERLESS, RACELESS, FAITHLESS-Erasing all defining lines
CORONACRAZED/MEDICINE COMPROMISED
UPDATE 4/3/25: Covid tyranny, in terms of lives ruined and prematurely ended, ranks high up on any historical list of attacks on fundamental American rights. Most disturbing is the willingness of the masses to play along with having been played for sheepish fools and still refusing to admit to it.
And don’t forget all the money to be stolen by culprits ranging from smalltime grifters to massive hospital systems, helping themselves to the whole huge Federal gravy train let loose in the name of “helping people.”
MEDICAL HELP FROM
FRONT LINE COVID-19 CRITICAL CARE (FLCCC) ALIANCE
ASSOCIATION OF AMERICAN PHYSICIANS AND SURGEONS (AAPS)
MARIJUANA HARMLESS? THINK AGAIN.
THE TRANSGENDERING/OMNISEXUALIZING OF AMERICA
SUPREMES-Different faces, still a Leftist Weird Sister act
WAR & PEACE: LENIN’S (and fellow Socialist HITLER’S) HEIRS
ORWELL-OBJECTIVE REALITY/TRUTH
ALICE’S PC WONDERLAND/REALITY BEYOND PARODY
THE GREAT RESET-The Clocks are striking 13? Can you live with this?
THE POLITICS OF DEPENDENCY (and INDEPENDENCE)
GREEN MONSTER-Environmental Tyranny
ID/WOKE POLITICS, Obama’s Permanent Civil War of Transformation
I’M A VICTIM! YOU’RE A VICTIM! EVERYBODY’S A VICTIM!
IAVT-I’M A VICTIM TOO! (Successful Black division)
BLACK LIVES MATTER…but only selectively to the race baiters.
BALTIMORE=FERGUSON=GEORGE FLOYD REDUX: The Next One
ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION/ OPEN BORDERS-Creating a Permanent Democratic UniParty Majority
UPDATE 4/3/25: Most of us interested in current events have the luxury of being armchair observers and not living out firsthand the terrors and tragedies experienced daily by people like the Israelis. Journalist and invaluable pundit Douglas Murray writes in his new book OF DEMOCRACIES AND DEATH CULTS about his willingness to go where the story is, often at his own mortal peril.
AMERICAN JEWRY-Brightest & Dumbest People On Earth
JEXODUS-Sensible Jews leaving the Dem Party
THE LIBERAL MIND and THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY OF PROJECTION
UPDATE 4/4/25: Those of us in MAGAWorld accused of being purveyors of “racism and hatred” have long ago resorted to carrying around pocket mirrors and sometimes, literally, making our accusers get a good look at themselves. It’s not reasonably termed The Party Of Projection for nothing.
MARXIST MANDELALAND aka SOUTH AFRICA
CLINTON (The Thing That Wouldn’t Leave)
FAUCI and the curse of the “EXPERTS”
SUPREMES-Different faces, still a Leftist Weird Sister act
UPDATE 4/5/25: At the risk of being branded a paranoid conspiracy theorist, it is becoming increasingly believable that Chief Justice John Roberts is a Deep State crony, keeping close social company with one Norm Eisen, a chief architect of the whole ongoing lawfare campaign to destroy Trump personally/financially/politically. This is subversive corruption at the highest level of our legal system. Roberts has already taken sides against Trump in the pivotal Boasberg affair, and special attention must be paid to him as the case reaches the Supreme Court.
