UPDATE: This whole video is well-worth watching but at 35 minutes, the disaster that is illegal and totally incompetent truckers is horrific. Incompetent illegals comprise 600,000 truckers out of national total if 3.5 million truckers. The 600,000 include multitudes of untrained and completely inexperienced truckers. And they are causing many fatal accidents. ABN
THE ONLY HEALTHCARE I WILL SUPPORT OR APPROVE IS SENDING THE MONEY DIRECTLY BACK TO THE PEOPLE, WITH NOTHING GOING TO THE BIG, FAT, RICH INSURANCE COMPANIES, WHO HAVE MADE $TRILLIONS, AND RIPPED OFF AMERICA LONG ENOUGH. THE PEOPLE WILL BE ALLOWED TO NEGOTIATE AND BUY THEIR OWN, MUCH BETTER, INSURANCE. POWER TO THE PEOPLE! Congress, do not waste your time and energy on anything else. This is the only way to have great Healthcare in America!!! GET IT DONE, NOW. President DJT
Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins on Thursday said the Trump administration is planning to have all Supplemental Nutritional Assistance Program (SNAP) beneficiaries reapply for the program due to alleged fraud.
The secretary said after receiving data on SNAP recipients from 29 red states that “186,000 deceased men and women and children in this country are receiving a check.”
“Can you imagine when we get our hands on the blue state data what we’re going to find?” she asked during a Thursday appearance on Newsmax’s “Rob Schmitt Tonight.”
“It’s going to give us a platform and a trajectory to fundamentally rebuild this program, have everyone reapply for their benefit, make sure that everyone that’s taking a taxpayer-funded benefit through SNAP or food stamps, that they literally are vulnerable, and they can’t survive without it,” she added.
I was actually not aware that Trump was being exclusively targeted this badly in these new Epstein files.
Okay so my thoughts on this.
I think the TPS [Transnational Private Sector] views Trump as;
unpredictable to their regulatory interests (antitrust, tariffs, tech control) despite operating according to what has been asked of him.
They view him willing to impose disorder on alliances (NATO funding, Ukraine hesitations, trade hostility).
And they see a major trigger for domestic volatility (Jan 6 legacy, institutional distrust, judiciary confrontations).
I don’t think the TPS wants Trump to be destroyed, just weakened enough that policy continuity is preserved in a predictable manner.
Leaking Epstein material obviously chips at the moral legitimacy of Trumps values-driven voter base.
It does not require courts or congress.
It exploits pre-existing distrust within conservative blocs around corruption, elitism, and moral hypocrisy.
This is a standard approach when the TPS prefers reputational attrition over direct confrontation.
Its creating maximum late-cycle damage when Trump cannot rebuild trust while it frames the conversation into “character integrity”, which hits his evangelical + traditionalist segments the hardest.
See I think Trump’s true “fortress” is not policy.
It’s identity.
His base tolerates corruption, aggression, chaos.
What they do not tolerate, is child-abuse associations.
Hence its highly politically radioactive.
Morality fractures this demographic without interrupting the economics.
It makes sense to me.
With these leaks, you shave off 3–5% of hesitant or values-based conservative voters.
You reduce enthusiasm while increasing abstention rates, and shift swing-state margins enough to control the outcome.
Evan has made some good predictions based on inside information and many good analyses based on experience in the Middle East. His posts typically ignore ethnic, racial and religious loyalties, which is a limitation in my mind, but also a plus because it keeps his analyses free from those complexities. ABN
When China got a break: Deng Xiaoping imported the Japanese high growth formula
After nearly three decades of ideological campaigns on the people of China, and likely more than 60 million people killed in the process, even the died-in-the-wool communists had after the death of strongman Mao become tired of party-political programmes (see Part I for more on those). Consequently, it was an uphill battle for Mao’s chosen heir, Hua, to generate any enthusiasm and support. Instead, a growing majority in the upper echelons of the Chinese Communist Party felt keenly that continuity was not attractive, as things had not panned out that well. Instead, the decision-makers ordained that it was time for a change in direction, namely by allowing a reality-oriented pragmatist to take the helm who would focus on delivering results – such as economic development, strengthening the nation and making the Chinese people better off.
Every so often there are moments in world history when the senior decision-makers over nations are neither incompetent agents serving foreign agendas, nor evil, genocidal psychopaths.
The time was ripe for Deng Xiaoping, who had joined the early Communist Party of China in the 1920s and had been on Mao’s Long March in1934. Moreover, he had already been in positions of influence before, but had been unceremoniously deposed several times, sent to labour camps or had otherwise been suppressed. Known as a calm, able and even-handed administrator who had not been involved directly in the cynical anti-human policies of the previous decades, Deng was rehabilitated in 1977 and appointed Vice Chairman of the CCP. He was also appointed Vice Premier of the State Council and member of the Politburo.
Deng picked up the pieces and restored economic order. He was now generally supported, especially as Hua’s unsuccessful attempt to pin the blame for the biggest policy disasters on particular people, such as the “Gang of Four”, had merely driven home the realisation that China had lost many years, even decades in terms of prosperity.
The remainder of 1977 and much of 1978 were a time of preparation for Deng Xiaoping. Then, in December 1978, he gave a key speech, which has since been interpreted as Deng officially taking over the leadership in China.
We are under sanctions, financial sanctions of European Union because we don’t let the illegal migrations to come to Hungary and to the European Union as well.
So we have to pay, just to inform you, we have to pay every day one million euro as a punishment to the Brazilian budget, because we stopped the migrants. This is the absurd world we are living now in Europe.
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