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Good point, Trump is a scoundrel. If his policies work for the good of the country will you welcome that? Perhaps more importantly to you and I, Sayin vs Keinholz? Red shirt St. Clair?

All jobs are American. Workers defined based on nativity.

Born in US, PR, US territories, or abroad to American parents vs not born in US such as naturalized citizens, green card holders, temporary visa holders, refugees, and undocumented immigrants.

The June report from the labor department stated that since the beginning of Trump’s second term, there have been 2.1M native-born jobs added and a drop of 543k foreign-born jobs. Kind of dispels the talking point about Americans not wanting to do the jobs being done by migrants. Employers are just going to have to raise wages. Win for the working class.

Watch how the tariffs on these countries being mentioned come tumbling down when they move to decouple from China. Their economic prosperity and security are also harmed by China’s economic strategy. They need the American market. Trump has the leverage.

It’s all about China. As Oren Cass outlined China’s economic strategy harms American security and prosperity. Decoupling is not enough. The US needs partners who also decouple from China and it must use the leverage of access to the American market to accomplish that.

By Jove, I think you’ve got it!

Today’s Doomberg piece is particularly sobering. China is helping to fund ongoing climate law fare with the goal of hindering US energy development, while at the same time liberally using coal to build the world’s largest, most advanced energy grid. This is being translated into military advantage.

https://www.wsj.com/opinion/texas-flood-guadalupe-river-climate-change-national-weather-service-d2a9319d?st=1hdJxf&reflink=article_copyURL_share “Some are blaming DOGE and federal budget cuts, but there’s scant evidence that staffing shortages at NWS affected events. The local NWS office had extra staff on duty last week and upgraded its precipitation models and forecasts repeatedly, from seven to nine inches on Wednesday night to 20 inches on Thursday evening.”

Thanks for the color. Were cuts indiscriminate? People voluntarily took buyouts. If their staying could have saved lives, are they in some way at fault? I know there was talk of eliminating the climate research arm. Going further Project 2025 called for dismantling NOAA and dividing its functions into other agencies, privatizing, and relegating to states. Who in the world knows if this would be better or worse? Are we to throw up our hands and say it’s too risky to optimize government and cut costs. If we wanted to try would there be a partner across the aisle? I remember Clinton cut some jobs, programs, and agencies. Obama and Biden were more about increasing efficiency hand waving. Now I don’t think there is much will, since Trump is seen as such a boogeyman.

Is it a sinking of or a right sizing? Are you saying competent executives will leave if a bloated workforce is optimized?

If these deaths were due to horrifically executed DOGE cuts, it would not be cuts to overpaid, lazy, tenured bureaucrats. No it would be cuts to qualified competent executives. Lazy bureaucrats would not have been key to providing the timely alerts which would have saved lives.

Let me know if you get to the truth, because if true this would be unconscionable! I think we can admit the not unlikely possibility that these sorts of talking points would be advanced without any substantiation. My hope is that, like Buffett’s approach to being hyper attentive to costs in running a business, we can, while allowing for inherent differences between public and private concerns, hope to continually prune where possible and provide taxpayers with the best government for their hard earned tax dollars. I would hate to think we are obligated to accept forever hypertrophying government.

Speaking about the Texas floods which involve the hill country, where LBJ is from. In the first volume of Robert Caro’s wonderful biography of LBJ “The Path to Power,” he describes the thin clay rich soil over limestone which made farming there a heartbreaking futile enterprise. In the recent flooding it has played a tragic role because it can hold so little water.

The OP doesn’t like his neighbor because he is MAGA. He describes brown people (implying his neighbor is racist), and mentions that his neighbor cannot speak Spanish (like him). The whining and sanctimony is like fingernails on a chalkboard to me. We need an intelligent policy to settle this. Eventually pressure in the labor market will hopefully force this. And I don’t think that the OP should assume that his neighbor doesn’t desire the same outcome. What he and just about every sane person doesn’t want is a completely undefended border with tens of millions of unvetted migrants pouring across the border.

Preach! Milei is just the kind of politician Brussels would do all in its power to undermine. Silly Dems in NYC nominate a communist. Gee, I wonder what will happen to the supply of apartments?

Yes many great ones in that period. He didn’t make it a priority to achieve notoriety. A no greater authority than Aretha Franklin considered him the greatest white soul singer.

Thanks Cubs, I have to resist responding when I see sanctimonious people point out supposed hypocrisy in others while missing their own.

The guy across the street from you is putting his money where his mouth is. I just had my place painted. The head of the crew, a Guatemalan, and I are on friendly terms. He showed me pictures of his town. He’s looking forward to going back after he has made enough money here. Instead of doing all that work yourself, hire and pay them.

They said to themselves “why is this mericoon bringing attention to us”. He can’t help us only give us problems. He just wants to feel better about himself. What does he really do for us? No es una buena cosa!

Guys everyone, even his supporters, know exactly who Trump is. If you think shining a light on all this will snap people out of their apathy or whatever you want call it, continue on with your mission. The truth is people feel better off with his policies. Well, maybe not single white women.

I’m rooting for Argentina. Celebrated my 50th birthday in Buenos Aires. Vamos Javier, tu puedes!

If you don’t like Trump, I ask what is the alternative? For some I suppose it was Kamala…obviously. I don’t see Ike walking through the door or JFK or even William Jefferson. So until knucklehead Dems can give me better than Cackles, AOC, and Mamdani I think I’ll stick with secure borders, intelligent energy policy, capitalism, etc. A friend is convinced the Kentucky governor is the answer. He actually thought the guy had a chance in this Democratic Party.

2024 tariff intake was $86B. Tariff revenue taken in March $9.6B, April $17.4B, May $22B, and June as of 6/25 $27B. Where does this annualize? >$400B. ”Big beautiful bill” projected to reduce Federal revenue on a dynamic basis by $4T over 10 years or $400B per year. Could all this work? Throw in more intelligent energy policy and permitting sanity. Just wondering.

People are easily manipulated by mistruths because they so want them to be true. https://www.wsj.com/opinion/taking-hegseth-seriously-on-fake-news-iran-report-media-014bfe27?st=9eN2xM&reflink=article_copyURL_share “It concerned a preliminary, thinly based and cursory analysis by the Defense Intelligence Agency (one of 18federal intelligence agencies) with a pessimistic account of the Iran strikes even as more valid information was pouring in about the recently-completed bombing mission. One might even ask if the essentially worthless review was commissioned to be leaked.” “Even a decade from now some Americans will likely cling to the dismissive DIA report just as they cling to the Steele dossier because they want it to be true.” “Such stories aren’t the product of journalistic enterprise. They are products of leakers who know a reporter will let them get away with an illegal leak and not embarrass or expose them even if it becomes clear the source was lying.”