Politics

Tucker On Tariffs

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Well said.

Commentary 
Does the Left Support Worker Exploitation?
It’s no secret that the stock market has reacted poorly to the Trump administration’s “Liberation Day” tariffs. It makes sense why. Investors hate uncertainty, and America ushering in an entirely new economic vision, regardless of what that vision is, was always going to cause a shock. 

One of the conglomerates experiencing a nosedive is Nike. According to Schaeffer’s Investment Research, the company’s stock sank to a six-year low after the tariff announcement and now carries a 23.5% year-to-date deficit. 

The reason for this is straightforward. Nike uses cheap foreign labor to create its products, exploiting international markets to get away with paying its workforce a fraction of what American laborers would require. This is no secret. Nike reportedly employs 108,000 Chinese workers, paying them an average annual salary of $10,000. Its American employees, by contrast, tend to make nearly seven times that sum. 

This makes Washington’s new effort to incentivize companies to manufacture their products in the U.S. a bad situation for Nike. And they’re not the only ones. Reutersreported on Thursday that “Shares in Nike, Adidas, and Puma dropped sharply after Vietnam was targeted with a 46% tariff rate, Cambodia with 49%, Bangladesh with 37% and Indonesia with 32%, while Trump hiked tariffs on China by an extra 34 percentage points, following the earlier 20% tariffs.” 

Take a step back and ask yourself what this really means. A $10,000 salary is not a livable wage. It equates to less than $5 an hour, and that’s if the worker doesn’t take a single minute off all year. No vacations. No sick days. Nothing. Just a life of thanklessly slaving away in his employer’s overheated mines. 

Among other things, the White House’s pursuit of “fair trade” aims to end that inhumanity. The U.S. should not reward companies for treating human beings like soulless cogs, easily replaceable and whose hours are worth nothing more than five measly dollars.

Is that what American neoliberals want? Whether they realize it or not, Democrats complaining about the Trump tariffs are by definition advocating for the West’s continued exploitation of effective slave labor. They may attend pride parades and post social justice graphics on social media, but they quickly jump ship as soon as a policy that will drive real change threatens their precious wallets. 

Emphasizing this could be a good way for Republicans to regain the high ground in our country’s economic debate. Will the tariffs create jobs? They should. Do they put America first? Without a doubt. But they’re also moral. America is no longer interested in subsidizing the treatment of workers as worthless servants. Companies that refuse to oblige? Fine. Enjoy your big, beautiful tariff.

JD Vance Says the Right thing

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Even when he is out of the spotlight.

Even in Private, JD Vance Puts America First
A key detail from Atlantic Magazine’s story on the Trump administration accidentally leaking its plans to bomb Yemen is being overlooked.

The content of JD Vance’s messages.

In case you haven’t seen the report, administration officials accidentally included Atlantic’s editor-in-chief in a Signal chat dedicated to discussing this month’s airstrikes in Yemen. This gave the journalist unprecedented access to the government’s process that led to the attacks, pulling back the curtain on what America’s most powerful figures are really like behind closed doors. 

The chat included well-known power players like Pete Hegseth, Mike Waltz, Marco Rubio, Stephen Miller, Tulsi Gabbard, and yes, Vice President Vance. It reveals why Vance was such an excellent choice to be a heartbeat away from the presidency. 

“Team, I am out for the day doing an economic event in Michigan. But I think we are making a mistake,” he messaged in response to the group’s gung-ho sentiments about launching the strikes. “3 percent of US trade runs through the [Suez Canal]. 40 percent of European trade does. There is a real risk that the public doesn’t understand this or why it’s necessary. The strongest reason to do this is, as POTUS said, to send a message.”

Vance also argued for delaying the attacks for a month and lamented the fact that, as usual, America was doing Europe’s dirty work for them. 

“I just hate bailing Europe out again,” he added a few minutes later.

Let’s take a step back. Yes, the Vice President’s hesitations may seem insignificant because the strikes wound up happening anyway. But they’re not.

Firstly, the dialogue shows that real, substantive policy debates are happening inside the administration. Its highest members are not afraid to spar with one another over issues that matter. The chat was not an echo chamber. Dissent is allowed.

Even more importantly, the messages reinforce the fact that the Vice President and likely future commander-in-chief is genuinely wired to want to avoid American interventionism rather than recklessly drop bombs all around the world to flex his manhood like so many of his predecessors. That doesn’t mean the Yemen strikes were examples of such recklessness. It shows that Vance’s antennas were up to make sure they weren’t and that his anti-war messaging isn’t just a public front.

Imagine what would have happened if previous Republican VPs currently held the post. Would Mike Pence have pushed back against the strikes? Please. Dick Cheney? He probably would have been furious they hadn’t happened already. But not Vance.

America could have avoided its disasters in Iraq and Afghanistan if the Vice President’s kind of thinking was present inside the Bush administration. The same goes for Korea and Vietnam. As the world plunges deeper into its nuclear era, it’s a relief to know Vance is where he is. He may wind up saving us all.

Tucker on Kamala

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Something about Kamala Harris’s concession speech felt off.

It wasn’t her language; the vice president said roughly what you’d expect of someone in her position. It was the vibe.

The media billed the address as the second coming of Hillary Clinton’s 2016 speech after her electoral defeat, but the two spectacles were completely dissimilar. As a former first lady, senator, and secretary of state, Clinton carried an aura that at least felt grand, leading most listeners, even the former Democrat candidate’s detractors, to conclude that she would at a minimum remain somewhat pertinent in America’s public discourse. 

The same cannot be said for the vice president.

No one had ever heard of Harris until 2018 when she became an establishment darling by harassing Brett Kavanaugh during his confirmation hearings. The then-senator’s attempt to capitalize on her newfound stardom fell flat, however, when her subsequent presidential campaign failed so miserably that she ran out of money and dropped out before the first primary.

Then, despite being the past target of Harris’s thinly veiled racism allegations, Joe Biden tapped the Californian as his running mate because, as Biden repeatedly said, he wanted “a woman to be vice president.”

A qualified woman? A woman who would be an effective president? No. Just “a woman.”

Next, Harris’s vice presidency went as one would expect for any affirmative action hire thrust into a position for which she was deeply unprepared: Disastrously. Harris oversaw the federal government’s biggest dereliction of duty in history at the southern border, unpromptedly baited Russia into invading Ukraine, and perpetually humiliated herself with mind-numbing media appearances that portrayed her as a babbling and incoherent halfwit.

Kamala’s performance as vice president made it abundantly clear that she was not destined for a promotion to the Oval Office, and despite her party’s 100-day push to brainwash the country into believing otherwise, she will not receive one. 

She’ll also no longer receive media inquiries, celebrity treatment, or any attention when she weighs in on the country’s biggest issues. No one will care.

With Harris’s impromptu presidential bid over, some Democrats will be surprised to see how quickly she reverts to inconsequential obscurity. They shouldn’t be. Harris isn’t suddenly returning to being irrelevant. She was never really relevant in the first place.

The Dark Side of Illegal Immigration

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Too many people talk around or ignore the dangers of illegal immigration.

1. Unvetted migrants.

2. Increase in crime.

3. Possible terrorists entering our country.

4. Forcibly changing demographics.

5. Cheap labor.

6. Lower wages.

7. Less jobs for Americans.

8. Increase in welfare expenses.

9. Drugs crossing the border.

10. 300 k Unaccounted for minors in our country

Now we look at who benefits.

1. Drug Cartels/ smugglers.

2. Corrupt politicians on both sides of the border.

3. Child and human traffickers.

4. Democrats condoning this and Republicans not stoping it.

5. Drug producers in Mexico.

6. Government funded NGO’s.

7. Foreign governments who want their jails emptied.

8. Companies wanting cheap labor.

9. The welfare state.

10 The deep state.

I could go on for hours but this will give you a Segway to finding information regarding this crisis and with a little research you can find out who really benefits. Our forefathers came here with no welfare state and no free anything from the taxpayers. They had to work hard and earn it or they went hungry, so the comparisons leftists make between now and then are not relevant.

We should not blame these immigrants for coming, what is happening is not their fault. it is the fault of politicians not enforcing our immigration laws for nefarious reasons.

Here are Some Clues

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Thank you Ralph. “Things you must know to be informed”

*YES, THE GOVERNOR OF MICHIGAN USED TO WORK FOR GEORGE SOROS.*

*YES, CALIF GOV. GAVIN NEWSOM IS NANCY PELOSI’S NEPHEW

* YES, ADAM SHIFF’S SISTER IS MARRIED TO ONE OF GEORGE SOROS’ SONS.

* YES, JOHN KERRY’S DAUGHTER IS MARRIED TO A MULLAH’S SON IN IRAN.

* YES, HILLARY’S DAUGHTER CHELSEA IS MARRIED TO GEORGE SOROS’ NEPHEW.

* YES, ABC NEWS EXECUTIVE PRODUCER IAN CAMERON IS MARRIED TO SUSAN RICE, OBAMA’S FORMER NATIONAL SECURITY ADVISER.

* YES, CBS PRESIDENT DAVID RHODES IS THE BROTHER OF BEN RHODES, OBAMA’S DEPUTY NATIONAL SECURITY ADVISER FOR STRATEGIC COMMUNICATIONS.

* YES, ABC NEWS CORRESPONDENT CLAIRE SHIPMAN IS MARRIED TO JAY CARNEY, FORMER OBAMA WHITE HOUSE PRESS SECRETARY.

* YES, ABC NEWS AND UNIVISION REPORTER MATTHEW JAFFE IS MARRIED TO KATIE HOGAN, OBAMA’S FORMER DEPUTY PRESS SECRETARY

* YES, ABC PRESIDENT BEN SHERWOOD IS THE BROTHER OF ELIZABETH SHERWOOD, OBAMA’S FORMER SPECIAL ADVISER.

* YES, CNN VP VIRGINIA MOSELEY IS MARRIED TO TOM NIDES, FORMER HILLARY CLINTON’S DEPUTY SECRETARY.

THIS IS WHAT YOU CALL A “STACKED DECK”. IF YOU HAD A HUNCH THE NEWS MEDIA WAS SOMEWHAT RIGGED AND YOU COULDN’T PUT YOUR FINGER ON IT, THIS MIGHT HELP YOU SOLVE THE PUZZLE.

Now you know why no one is investigated. They all have their hands in the cookie jar!  You might remember James Comey who investigated the Clinton email scandal and the Clinton Foundation, and made the final decision to not recommend prosecution by the DOJ.

It turns out that the Clinton Foundation was audited by the law firm DLA Piper. One of the executives there was in charge of the Clinton Foundation audit.

Who was it? Peter Comey, James Comey’s brother. Peter Comey held an executive position with the Washington law firm that did the audit of the Clinton foundation in 2015.   Peter Comey was officially DLA Piper “Senior Director of Real Estate Operations for the Americas,” in 2015 when the Clinton Foundation scandals first broke and Hillary was preparing her Presidential campaign.  Not only was DLA Piper, the firm where Comey’s brother worked involved in the audit of the Clinton Foundation, but according to the foundation’s donor records, DLA Piper has given between $50 – 100k to the Foundation

It gets even cozier. DLA Piper executive Douglas Emhoff is taking an extended leave of absence from the firm. Who is Douglas Emhoff?   He is the husband of KAMALA HARRIS! Just a coincidence?   Amazing if it is. You can’t make this stuff up!

 This “Family Tree” will make your head spin ..

Dominion (voting machine provider) serves 40% of the US market. It is in 30 states – – The state of Texas rejected the machines.


– Admiral Peter Neffenger is on Biden’s transition team.
 
– Neffenger was the President of the board of Smartmatic
 
– Smartmatic (another voting machine supplier) entered into an agreement with Dominion in 2009
 
– Smartmatic counted votes in Venezuela
 
– Smartmatic is connected to Philippine voter fraud
 
– Smartmatic is run by Lord Mark Malloch Brown who works for George Soros (-he and Brown are life-long friends)
 
– Brown chairs the Boards of a number of non-profit boards including the Open Society Foundation,
 
– Brown chairs the Centre for Global Development.
 
– Open society of course is owned by George Soros
 
– Smartmatic partnered with DLA Piper Global
 
– Douglas C. Emhoff works at DLA Piper Global
 
– Douglass C. Emhoff is Kamala Harris’s husband
 
– Guess who owns Dominion? – -Blum Capital Partners, L.P.
 
– Guess who is on the board for the company? — Richard Blum.
 
– Richard C. Blum is Dianne Feinstein’s husband.
 
– Nancy Pelosi’s husband is also a major investor
 
– An aide to Nancy Pelosi, Nadeam Elshami, was hired by Dominion Voting Systems
 
And it goes on…..
 
– Dominion Voting Systems is listed on the Clinton Foundation website.
 
– Dominion Voting is listed as a $25,000 -$50,000 donor to the Clinton Foundation in 2014 by The Washington Post
 
– Georgia Governor Kemp used Dominion Voting after Texas and Florida rejected them
 
– Dominion has a lobbyist named Jared Thomas
 
– Jared Thomas was Governor Brian Kemp’s chief of staff and press secretary from 2012 to 2015
 
– You must remember the Feinstein-Kavanaugh-Soros connections to understand this next information
 
– Debra Katz (Christine Ford’s lawyer) worked for George-Soros at the Open Society Foundation.
 
– Debra Katz (Christine Ford’s lawyer) also worked at Project on Government Oversight (POGO).
 
– POGO is funded by Soros’s Open Society Foundation.
 
– POGO is the co-signer of the letter Diane Feinstein presented against Kavanaugh’s nomination.
 

– Kamala Harris did not prosecute OneWest Bank for their fraud when she had the authority – Soros owned OneWest Bank.

Now you know why a woman who placed 7th in own her State when running for President is now VP (and soon to be president?)!