The Not Trump Candidate
September 29, 2024 Leave a comment
Let’s say you are all in on the Not Trump candidate being elected. The trustworthy and unbiased media and DOJ have endlessly vilified the other candidate. Based on this, you see yourself above that “foul” candidate and his supporters. Your image – self and public – and your world must be protected.
Let’s say you have chosen to accept what people in the media are saying: “Trump and Christian Nationalists are a threat to Democracy.” And though Democracy didn’t fall during Trump’s first term and the nation didn’t become a theocracy and Democrats, the democracy-must-be-destroyed-to-Save-Democracy party, perverted Democracy to steal the 2020 election, you have chosen to believe that Democracy is now threatened by Trump and his kind because there are those who say so.
Let’s say you’re all in with the Not-Trump candidate and the “Save Democracy” party, the self-proclaimed protectors of democratic norms (that ensured that there would not be an open Democratic primary . . . so democracy can die in darkness).
Let’s say you are OK with all this and you will look-in-the-mirror-of-your-world and see yourself as respectable for voting Not Trump. You’ve come to view your version of Christianity/Progressivism as not all that destructive. It is simply a way to be open-minded and to “Love Your Neighbor.”
Economics is over your head but you’ve heard the Not Trump candidate say “equity” “fair share” “price-gouging” and “opportunity economy.” And though under the Not Trump administration, inflation has reached its highest point since 1981, the high cost of living burdening millions of Americans, and the country has entered a recession, and the Not Trump candidate is clueless about economics, you go with the Not Trump flow because Not Trump.
Abortion, borders, and national sovereignty are annoying issues the Right brings up and so you avoid them. You have a higher calling. You are all in on existential and emotion-driven causes: climate change regulations, racial power structures, “unity”, “being nice”, “creation care”, and welcoming all illegal migrants without worrying about how to care for them.
Let’s say you are all in on the Not-Trump candidate and The New Way Forward. What does that look like?
Imagine. You own a business with employees and overhead to pay for and government comes in and says your pricing is too high. (Would they do this to Harvard?) You are accused of “price-gouging.” What do you do? To avoid expensive and extended litigation, you drop prices. Revenue is subsequently reduced. But, labor, materials, and overhead costs haven’t changed. To keep your business operating you cut employee benefits. You then cut the labor force. You then sell assets. Not hard to imagine. The New Way Forward is government saying it owns you and your business.
Accusing companies and corporations of taking advantage of people (Kamala, AOC, Liz Warren, et al.) with “price-gouging” verbal attacks is a ploy by autocratic politicians to take control of your bottom line in order to make them and their governing policies look good.
For, government will never accept responsibility for the high prices created with its enormous spending and dollar printing. The Fed has printed an incredible amount of money to buy the debt the US Treasury issues. And every time it does it expands the money supply, devalues the dollar, and drives up interest rates and inflation.
But, it’s the “price-gouging grocers” — as Team Harris would have you believe — and not the excessive government spending.
Remember: Vice President Harris cast the tie-breaking vote on the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 (IRA) which increased inflation of prices.
Joe Biden said, at a New Mexico fundraiser, that “[The Inflation Reduction Act] has nothing to do with inflation.” “It has to do with the $368 billion, the single-largest investment in climate change anywhere in the world.”
Price-gouging? That is what Biden-Harris economics have done to all of us with their policies.
Since Biden took office, prices have risen nearly 20 percent, a number that, when checked against stagnant wage growth, puts the real effect of inflation at some of the worst levels we’ve seen in decades. Inflation is often described as the “hidden tax” because it takes away purchasing power from citizens not through taking away money directly but via a devaluation of the money that citizens already have.
One of the major stressors for families is cost of living. From a recent report issued by the surgeon general:
Over the last decade, parents have been consistently more likely to report experiencing high levels of stress compared to other adults. 33% of parents reporting high levels of stress in the past month compared to 20% of other adults. When stress is severe or prolonged, it can have a harmful effect on the mental health of parents and caregivers, which in turn also affects the well- being of the children they raise.
The report, in general, mentions several stress-inducing factors including “financial strain and economic instability.” It doesn’t mention the price-gouging inflation caused by the Biden-Harris regime. It just talks about more government solutions.
(Aren’t laws that impose an increase in the minimum wage also “price-gouging”? Labor costs are passed on to the customer.)
Not hard to imagine the major stress created by the Not Trump president.
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Imagine. You are watching a debate and your choice of presidential candidate, the current Vice President, is asked, “Do you believe Americans are better off than they were four years ago?” and she responds saying, “I was raised as a middle-class kid.”
Kamala Harris couldn’t provide a coherent response to during the debate.
(BTW: Harris was raised by two parents with PhDs and lived in a well-off neighborhood.)
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Imagine. You are at an Economic Club of Pittsburgh event that is hosting the Vice President. She is there to talk about her economic agenda and says:
“We need to guard that spirit. We have to guard that spirit. Let it always inspire us. Let it always be the source of our optimism, which is that spirit that is uniquely American. Let that then inspire us by helping us to be inspired to solve the problems that so many face, including our small business owners.”
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Imagine. Our “serious thinker” Vice President as President and she can’t explain her economic policies because she doesn’t understand economics (only how to repeat ideological jargon) and “wholistically” speaks Kamalawocky:
I am the eggman, they are the eggmen
I am the walrus, goo-goo g’joob
Imagine Not Trump in a room with world leaders.
“I am Kamala Harris, my pronouns are she and her, and I am a woman sitting at the table wearing a blue suit.”
So, price controls are still on the table?: Jesse Watters (youtube.com)
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Imagine a candidate for president who hasn’t released any tax policies. The candidate’s s New Way Forward is based on tax provisions in Biden’s 2025 budget proposal, which include a tax on unrealized capital gains, as reported in Axios, The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal .
As proposed, the UCG tax applies only to individuals with at least $100 million in wealth who do not pay at least a 25% tax rate on their income (inclusive of unrealized capital gains). There are exemptions. Basically, it would not apply to the holdings of most startup founders or investors or on real estate based on certain conditions.
But nothing happens in isolation.
Certainly, a more complex tax code would burden the IRS (and likely encourage more tax money for the IRS) and would discourage investment in growing businesses. Many would invest in safer financial instruments such as government bonds rather than in risky new technology and innovation (energy sources, biopharmaceuticals, etc.) that produce great benefits.
Florida Atlantic University College of Business professor Siri Terjesen wrote in July 2024 that the UCG tax would act like a “kill-switch for entrepreneurship.” She said that “Investors may be less likely to invest in growth-oriented ventures due to greater swings in valuation compared to larger, established companies.”
The new tax on unrealized gains could hasten the selling of assets by investors for tax reasons rather than legitimate business reasons.
The new tax would penalize individuals for owning assets that appreciate, regardless of whether those assets are sold.
Behind the money grab is the argument that tax-free accumulation of wealth over generations intensifies income-and-wealth disparities in the U.S. (When government takes control of people’s wealth and plays favorites, the income-and-wealth disparity is exacerbated.)
It’s not hard to imagine that the Not Trump candidate’s administration, by taxing the “paper” gains, the unrealized gains of the top 0.01% of taxpayers in the country, will not use that tax revenue to pay off the enormous budget deficit but will instead, redistribute the money for “votes.”
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Imagine. Someone removes the firewall and all network security designed to monitor, filter, and control incoming and outgoing network traffic from your computer. The firewall sits between a trusted network and an untrusted network.
Imagine, as president, a Border Czar that presided over a disabled firewall and refused to protect the border, the country and its citizens from untrustworthy traffic.
Biden-Harris Released 13,000+ Convicted Killers Into the U.S. (thenationalpulse.com)
Imagine a candidate so inept and careless that the best thing she can do is cackle when asked about the U.S. border.
Hell is empty and all the devils are here:
Flooding small American towns with a diaspora from the most violent, economically deprived nation in the Western Hemisphere is, for the Democrats, the best answer to economic stagnation in Middle America.
A Warning to America – Restoration, with Ayaan Hirsi Ali (restorationbulletin.com)
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Imagine. The 2024 Democratic presidential nominee and current Vice President claimed during a debate that, “There is not one member of the military who is in active duty in a combat zone in any war zone around the world for the first time this century.”
Was she not aware of “war zone” troops currently deployed?
The Biden-Harris regime did recklessly withdraw from the major Afghanistan War in August 2021. But there are U.S. troops stationed across the Middle East and other countries, mostly in counter-terrorism roles, according to a December 2023 White House War Powers Act report.
Thousands of U.S. troops remain in harm’s way. Hundreds have been under attack this year alone. Three died in January.
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Imagine a Not Trump president who supports censorship.
So far, Ms. Harris and Mr. Biden have said absolutely nothing about this attack on free speech in Brazil, and now we likely know why: they approve of it.
This video clip below is proof that Kamala Harris would support Brazil’s nationwide ban on X. And if you don’t think the same could happen here, you haven’t been paying attention.
Video proof that Harris would support Brazil’s nationwide ban on X… – Revolver News
What’s coming under Not Trump: “Democracy” defined as one voice and one narrative coming down from above.
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Finally, imagine the Not Trump candidate as Lemony Snicket’s failed actor Count Olaf and the New Way Forward as a series of very burdened by what has been unfortunate events. Imagine the transformation of America into a one-party socialist oligarchy. Imagine yourself as a serf in your own country all because of Not Trump.
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Michael Walsh Exposes the Corporate Media
Host Scot Bertram talks with Paul Moreno, the William and Berniece Grewcock Chair in Constitutional History, professor of history, and dean of social sciences at Hillsdale College, about Kamala Harris’s proposed reforms to the U.S. Supreme Court. Michael Walsh, journalist and screenwriter, discusses the dangers of the evolving media landscape and his new book Against the Corporate Media: Forty-two Ways the Press Hates You. And Elizabeth Edwards Spalding, ’88, chairman of the Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation and founding director of the Victims of Communism Museum, tells us about her work and accepting Hillsdale College’s 2024 Elizebeth Smith Friedman Freedom Award.
Home – Hillsdale College Podcast Network
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https://modernity.news/2024/09/12/cnns-tapper-slams-kamala-for-dodging-questions-during-debate/
DANA BASH: “You’ve been Vice President for three and half years. The steps that you are talking about now, why haven’t you done them already?” KAMALA: “I’m very proud of the work we have done.”
The Significance of the Passage of Time – Kunstler
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Tyranny Priced In?
November 17, 2024 Leave a comment
You likely don’t gauge your economic future with economic charts, indicators, and theories. You don’t watch CNBC or Fox Business programs. You sit down at the kitchen table, go over the monthly bills, and see reality – there are forces at work driving prices up. So, when you heard Kamala Harris talk about “price controls” what did you think?
If on the Left and a Progressive, you might agree with the fiery rhetoric of politicians Kamala Harris, AOC, Liz Warren, et al. pronouncing corporations and grocers as “price gouging greedy bastards” and that they need to be controlled. You would be OK with government intervention.
If on the Right and a conservative, then you would balk at “price controls” talk. You want the government to be hands off knowing that when government gets involved a great imbalance is thrown into the market. You understand that politicians do not know how to solve inflation. They just create more problems with their fixes’, including price fixing and price freezing.
It’s bad enough (terrible, really) that the U.S. Treasury and the Fed mess with the economy, making the rich richer, the rest of us poorer, and throwing our future up in the air with their ‘adjustments’.
Remember the 2007-2008 financial crisis. The Fed created the real estate bubble. By lowering interest rates to record lows it drove a huge increase in home prices as many jumped on board the balloon ride.
The home lending market “financialized” high-risk subprime mortgages to low-income homebuyers. Wall Street firms became heavily involved in collateral debt obligations (CDOs) and mortgage-backed securities (MBSs).
The housing boom in the early to mid-2000s became extremely unstable as interest rates increased on ARMs and housing prices began to fall. Many subprime borrowers began to default on their payments. As a result, financial institutions worldwide suffered severe damage. There was an international banking crisis. On September 15, 2008 the Wall Street brokerage firm Lehman Brothers sought Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection.
The subprime mortgage crisis devastated financial markets and contributed to the biggest economic downturn since the Great Depression. Read or see The Big Short for a sense of that economic disaster.
It’s not just the economic czars of the U.S. Treasury and Fed that screw things up. Congress not long ago passed spending bills with the Orwellian names “Cares Act” and “Inflation Reduction Act.” Both Acts have added to a massive deficit that is financed by the Fed’s creation of new money which increases the money supply and ergo inflation, the “price gouging” culprit that “price controls” would only exacerbate because nothing happens in isolation.
Talk of “price controls” is nothing more than government avoiding accountability for its lack of spending control and its disruptive fiscal policies. And when you don’t understand that the seemingly complex and multitudinous causes of inflation boil down to too much money chasing too few goods and you are insulated from consequences, you continue the “price controls” rhetoric. You go on picking winners and losers.
I raise the “price controls” issue as a way to raise awareness as to how our lives, our monthly bills, are influenced by outside forces and to address an ominous scenario on the horizon: a dictated, regimented, and authoritarian economy is in the works to “price control” us into place.
Wherever you are on the spectrum of “price controls” – hearing what you want to hear or hearing alarm bells – be aware that The Great Reset’s Globalist policies are a monolithic version of Kamala’s “price controls.” They encompass not just how businesses do business (who to employ, for how much, social and environmental impact, etc.) but what is to be valued – by everyone.
Simply put, our ‘betters’ will determine who does what and why. They will “price control” our lives with their values. That Kamala mentioned “price controls” shows that she was signaling Big Brother intimidation – pressure on specific industries against specific price increases. This same bullying will be exponentially greater under The Great Reset globalist ‘economy’.
Under The Great Reset, we will be made to swallow an alphabet soup of “price control” values and the institutions producing them, including DEI, CRT, ESG, LGBTQ by the UN, WEF, and WHO.
We will be told to value safetyism and therefore to prioritize world health at all costs to our individual liberty, national sovereignty, common sense, and actual science. We will be made to value One Health.
Who can forget the COVID madness? Lockdowns, closed schools and churches, forced vaccines, families separated, businesses destroyed. All the COVID mandates were price controls. Government mandated value.
The World Health Organization is scrambling to push a “Pandemic Agreement (Treaty)” – a global health control agenda that will override U.S. sovereignty. The WHO wants unprecedented power to declare “health emergencies” whenever they choose. And that could mean forced vaccines, lockdowns, and sweeping mandates—all justified under the guise of a so-called “emergency” of whatever nature.
The WHO Pandemic Treaty would give these Global Elites the power to:
-Globally authorize untested vaccines and pandemic products, pressuring governments to purchase and enforce their use on you, your family, and your friends.
-Dictate when and where you can travel, what you can eat, whether you can gather for worship, and even what you’re allowed to say online.
-Strip away your country’s ability to decide how to respond to future health crises, putting these decisions into the hands of WHO bureaucrats who do not represent you.
Again, if you are on the Left, recent history shows that you were OK with Big Brother forcing people to wear masks, social distance, and be vaccinated. And, if people didn’t obey, you were OK with people losing their jobs, businesses being fined and shuttered, and the COVID-positive being sent off to quarantine camps.
People were to be isolated, given only food and some cleaning supplies. They would be banned from participating in any religious services. The plan included contingencies for preventing suicide. There were no provisions made for any legal appeals or even the right to legal counsel.
The CDC Planned Quarantine Camps Nationwide ⋆ Brownstone Institute
Interim Operational Considerations for Implementing the Shielding Approach to Prevent COVID-19 Infections in Humanitarian Settings | CDC
If you are on the Left, you believe in forced degrowth because of a “climate crisis.” You follow “the science” wherever it goes. You believe in censorship, and everything else that “price controls” people. A Karen on the Left ‘price controlled’ the life of Peanut the squirrel.
If you are on the Left, you are OK with the Globalist agenda of the UN, WEF, and the WHO. You are OK with tyranny being priced in to all you do.
If you are not on the Left and are an independent critical thinker and have expanded your personal bandwidth to include history, you are aware that there are those who, in the bubble of their superior intellectual, moral and humanitarian enlightenment, see themselves in a superior position to make choices for you and me. If they can elevate choices to an existential level (pandemic, climate, etc.) then they believe they have a right to do so. Tyranny will be priced in.
Will the Fed convert the U.S. Dollar to Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC)? If so, it would be only a matter of time before CBDCs are linked to a global database controlled by the UN, IMF, the WHO, or God forbid, the WEF.
I write this to warn Christians about what is ahead. Stop looking for Signs of the End Times in the Mideast. Forget the “Rapture” and “Left Behind” fantasies. Get prepared for the onslaught of “price controls.” Christians will be put under immense pressure to conform to the imposed values. Know what you will do when that happens. And get prepared for the Lord’s return. “Stay alert. You have no idea when the Lord might arrive. (Matt. 25: 1-13)
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Prices are important not because money is considered paramount but because prices are a fast and effective conveyor of information through a vast society in which fragmented knowledge must be coordinated. – Thomas Sowell
If politicians stopped meddling with things they don’t understand, there would be a more drastic reduction in the size of government than anyone in either party advocates. – Thomas Sowell
No government of the left has done as much for the poor as capitalism has. Even when it comes to the redistribution of income, the left talks the talk but the free market walks the walk. What do the poor most need? They need to stop being poor. And how can that be done, on a mass scale, except by an economy that creates vastly more wealth? Yet the political left has long had a remarkable lack of interest in how wealth is created. As far as they are concerned, wealth exists somehow and the only interesting question is how to redistribute it. – Thomas Sowell
The most fundamental fact about the ideas of the political left is that they do not work. Therefore we should not be surprised to find the left concentrated in institutions where ideas do not have to work in order to survive. – Thomas Sowell
It is hard to imagine a more stupid or more dangerous way of making decisions than by putting those decisions in the hands of people who pay no price for being wrong. – Thomas Sowell
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American Citizenship and Its Decline: The Global Elite
On this episode of The Hillsdale College Online Courses Podcast, Jeremiah and Juan discuss how much the COVID Pandemic changed their understanding of government overreach before introducing Dr. Victor Davis Hanson.
Citizenship is rare in human history but essential to free government. Today, the constitutional rule of citizens in America is threatened by a new form of government, unaccountable to the people, in which power is held by a ruling class that seeks to transform our society. In this eight-lecture course, students will examine the origins and history of citizenship in the West and the grave challenges American citizenship faces today.
There is a growing movement to surrender American sovereignty to international bodies. This effort—championed by a global elite—excludes the participation of the American people and threatens our national security.
Topics include the globalists, the Great Reset, the WHO and WEF
Hillsdale College: American Citizenship and Its Decline: The Global Elite
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Trump picked Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services. Hopefully he can get rid of the “price control” lobbyists who have shilled their unhealthy junk to Congress and the American people. MAHA.
Trump pick is Al Gore’s worst nightmare.
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