We are in a bit of a lull right now. Trump is announcing appointments for cabinet positions, some of which will run into trouble right away (like Gaetz). The Left is hunkering down on social media, with many fleeing Twitter/X to BlueSky. I created an account over there (@arthursido.bsky.social) just to troll them, I will likely get banned pretty quickly. Most posts are liberals congratulating themselves for their stunning and brave courage for running away from Twitter. Honestly it reads like Poast did for a few weeks after the mass exodus from Gab with most posts griping about how bad Gab has become (not without reason) and how awesome Poast is.
This lull won’t last long, even assuming nothing happens between now and January 20th while people are focused on black Friday (now all month in November), Thanksgiving, Christmas and the New Year. If what is being said is true, there is a lot that will happen right away on Day One. Most of it will be reversing prior Trump orders that Biden reversed upon taking orifice but there are some new items and some significantly escalated areas as well.
If Trump’s domestic policies come to fruition in any significant way, it will cause some significant ripples that might get a little hairy.
What the cheerleaders of Trump’s plans don’t quite seem to understand is that there will be costs and consequences. Iy won’t be morning in America and Making America Great Again like magic. That doesn’t mean we shouldn’t do it, just that it will be painful making it happen.
Our economic system has been carefully and intentionally undermined for decades, going back at least to FDR and the creation of the Fed. In order to roll that back it is going to get worse before it gets better. Trump is inheriting a shit sammich of an economy that the media has been carefully covering up with kitty litter for four years: “They Just Got Handed Fraudulent Books” – Ed Dowd Confirms Our Warning That Trump Is ‘Inheriting A Turd Of An Economy’….
The real economy has been rolling over, and we are just waiting for the financial markets to figure this out.
When they do, Trump is going to inherit a turd of a financial market crisis.
Government statistics will be updated, and it will show we started a recession sometime this year…
The incoming Trump Administration has to get out in front of the narrative. This was already baked into the cake. They just got handed fraudulent books. So, they are basically going to get blamed for what is coming.
They have to get in front of the narrative and talk about what they were handed. They need to talk about how the stock market is not a real indicator of economic health like it was before the days of raw manipulation.”
It is a ticking timebomb set to explode once Trump is sworn in and the very same Lügenpresse that said things were great under Biden are going to blame Trump for it. Add in the warning from the same article about the millions of excess deaths and severe injuries from the “Covid-19 vaccine” and you have some of the elements in place to cause widespread fear and massive panic among the normies.
I assume my readers already know the basic facts. America went from being a manufacturing juggernaut to a place where low paid retail workers sell each other cheap crap manufactured overseas. You cannot overstate how significant the difference is between an economy based on adding value to raw materials versus one where profits are derived simply by marking up the prices on consumer goods made in China. Now we make very little in America, although the capability to do so remains.
My post from July 2023 looks at The Manufacturing Myth, the idea that Americans can’t make anything these days and that it is just too expensive to manufacture in the U.S., by examining the firearms industry where Americans make guns by the zillions in price points from super cheap to really expensive.
What this tells me is that Americans can indeed manufacture competitively, especially if our laws were designed to aid our manufacturing base like most nations instead of letting our companies try to compete with subsidized industries overseas. Can we make the sort of consumer goods on sale at Amazon Slime Days, cheap chink crap that will fall apart after a few uses? Maybe not but who the hell wants that stuff? We end up buying the same thing over and over because they fall apart. Clothing shrinks and the seams give out, shoes fall apart after six months, household goods break after a short time of usage. I am confident U.S. manufacturers could make higher priced but still competitive products that would last longer. After all, we can make guns and those are pretty complex. An AR has what, 200 pieces and parts counting all the springs and crap, and we can make those by the millions.
An economic populism that protects American manufacturing as a national security and quality of life issue would be a powerful political platform. Trump sort of talked about this but ended up getting distracted by personality squabbles, terrible personnel decisions and letting his daughter and son-in-law interfere with governance. The economy of a nation should work for the interests of the people of a nation, not just for the profit of corporations and shareholders. That is important but it shouldn’t completely overshadow the people who actually work in America. We would be far better off with more people making stuff than having everyone working at meaningless service economy jobs or selling cheaply made Chinese crap at dollar stores. As the gun industry shows us, we can do it if we can only find the political willpower to do so.
That sounds great but of course there is a hitch. In order to bring manufacturing back to America, you will need to make it no longer economical to buy from China and Mexico. To do that we will need to increase tariffs on those goods and that will in the short term cause even more inflation and likely significant supply chain disruptions. John Wilder had a good post about tariffs the other day you should check out: Tariffs: A Bad Idea Whose Time Has Come. My personal scheme would be to use the threat of even higher tariffs to make Mexico take back the millions of illegals Trump says he will deport.
This is going to be similar to ripping off a Band-Aid. It is going to sting something fierce initially but it needs to be done. Get ready for the shocks now, especially as some stuff might come in and out of availability for a while. It is also why Orange Man needs to hit the ground running and HARD right out of the gate before the traitorous GOP can start to undercut his mandate.
Between the intentional implosion of the economy coupled with the planned civil unrest (some jogger out there is about to become the next George Floyd and has no idea), and the very real difficulty of making systemic economic changes, the first six months of 2025 promise to be pretty nasty.
Gaetz and Kennedy are the two most Dangerous Men that the ‘Swamp’ can possibly Face; Trump appointing them signals that He is actually going to work to ‘Draining the Swamp’. Unfortunately, the (((banksters))) have the ability to Crash their Ponzi Scam in a matter of Minutes, resulting in Screaming Chaos and (((their))) ‘media’ will Instantly Blame Trump for the ‘Market Crash’. The Only Way to ‘correct’ that would be to use the proven NaSDAP Program of Printing Treasury Notes, and Disenfranchising the (((banksters))).
Not likely to Happen, so Buy more Ammo….
A CPUSA (D) RAT POS vermin?
Not my comrades and never will be.
There is opportunity in chaos as comrade Lenin said and this soft weak queef femmeboy soy society won’t be able to handle it.
Others will thrive and be happy like Crazy Earl from FMJ.
Ponzi Replacements will be the wild card.
Ready the shit filled pinata.
Yes and no.
Art – most people – even curmudgeonly skeptics and dissidents – would be knocked over senseless if they ever got a real figure for flat out theft by our overclasses. If they ever DID see an accurate accounting I strongly suspect you’d see Holocaust 2.0. A LOT of our overlords would be fleeing for their lives and the slower ones would face their own Nicolae Ceauşescu moments. Just just stopping the hemorrhaging of money from that alone could turn the economy around on a dime.
Restoring a common sense meritocracy would catapult the west back into good times too. It might not be as hard as you think either… when these lefties and shitlibs go hungry, or spend a few nights outdoors or skipping meals… money will be real again. Having a supportive family will be a priority again. People will have to take interest in their communities again. The trash HAS to be taken out. There is no other choice now.
A lot of very good things are going to come out of the impending adversity… but adversity is the price for indifference. We let this happen, this is our fault.
Getting rid of China’s (Clinton) Most Favored Nation status would help as well as trimming back all the regulatory burden on business here. Of course the biggest boost to the economy would come from a Paul Bunyan ax job on the Federal bureaucracy. All well within the Constitutional limits of course which would be an even bigger cut than Musk took to Twitter.
MAGA – Make Anti-federalism Great Again
Ditch the EPA, OSHA, other manufacturing 3 letter stranglers, and the business ‘license’ Stasi.
It’d be the 1950s again.
0% corporate income tax?
Foreign companies/manufacturers would bump illegals off planeloads arriving here.
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Is this gonna be a stand-up fight, sir, or another bug hunt?
Aliens (1986)
I read today the fed is quietly stripping money out of banks to make them less solvent. Not sure I believe the article but it was interesting.
I just put up a bunch of tinctures, they last without refrigeration. Got enough jars and lids to can everything in the freezer and a couple years’ worth of food, so there’s some trade stock as well.
The wife said she upped her “retirement contribution” from her paycheck, I just said “OK” since it’s all funny money anyway.
Traffic is pretty light, and the railroads have idled 40-foot container cars at various sidings up in the swamp here for a few years now, at least there will be plenty of those not worn out for the boom times to come when I’m dead if anti-gravity isn’t a thing.
Some sagacious military man once said “If everything is going according to your plan, you’re walking into a trap.” The communists have no intention of relinquishing control, the deep state has no intention of facing justice, and the globalists still have a vision of bringing lucifer to the earth so they can worship him as their god. The next 1-4 years are going to be wild. Rest assured of that.
^^^This advice is particularly prudent.^^^
At minimum, an economic policy ought to be better than a call for more crime.
If all you are seeking to do is raise prices of foreign goods, piracy would accomplish the same as a tariff, but with the added benefit that Congress would not get their grubby little hands on more money to give to Israel. And we wouldn’t have to foot salaries and pensions to run pirates. Just stop spending money fighting them.
I’m not saying I know what the answer is, just that it’s not tariffs.
Yup. Recession incoming.
Arthur, what is the background to the ‘mass exodus from Gab’ that you refer to?
Curious because I hope the platform makes it, but I’ve never found it enjoyable or user friendly, and I quit going to it altogether, soon after I opened an account, with the exception of looking for your posts, and those of Pat Condell.