From X-22 yesterday.

This is a crock of Schiff. A “WE DIDN’T KNOW” excuse. Remember it was the UK’s man in the White House, Kissinger, that facilitated this and it was ALL about destroying the USA.

https://nitter.poast.org/DrJStrategy/status/2073547711521997194

• The damage was done when China was accepted into the WTO and then implemented mercantilist trade practices while global technocrats sat idle. The bet was that China’s integration into the rules-based system would liberalize its politics and normalize its economics. Instead, subsidized overcapacity, managed exchange rates, and aggressive export targeting gutted large parts of U.S. manufacturing and weakened the broader Western industrial base.
• What elites treated as efficient globalization was, in practice, the offshoring of productive capacity, the hollowing out of industrial regions, and the strategic empowerment of a geopolitical rival. That insight shaped everything that followed.
• Trump argued that the era of frictionless globalization was over, that trade deficits and supply-chain dependence mattered, and that national strength would again rest on productive capacity, industrial depth, and control over strategic resources. Trumps America First strategy, anchored in the Hamilton–Clay tradition, treated tariffs, trade reviews, and infrastructure as instruments of statecraft.
• That was dismissed as crude protectionism. It now looks like early recognition of the world we’re actually in. Operation Epic Fury made the geopolitical point even more starkly: Pax Americana is dead. The evidence is now coming not just from Trump’s allies but from the broader political and intellectual class. Even Paul Krugman has conceded that “conditional tariffs” on Chinese cars are “probably going to be necessary” and warned that Europe cannot allow its auto industry to be hollowed out by Chinese overcapacity.
• When a progressive Nobel laureate starts agreeing with Trump that tariffs and industrial capacity have a legitimate strategic role, the old consensus is gone. The argument now is no longer over first principles, but over how far and how fast to move. That shift is showing up in North America as well.
• The Trump administration’s refusal to extend the current trade pact on existing terms codified what Trump’s worldview had already implied: the age of automatic continental trade management is over.
• The agreement remains in force, but it is now under deliberate strategic review. Trade is being judged less by abstract efficiency and more by whether it strengthens industrial depth, energy security, and continental resilience.
• Canada is now being forced to adjust.
• The next round of U.S.–Canada trade talks should deepen integration where it already makes strategic sense, energy, critical minerals, power, and industrial inputs—while targeting the old protected zones of the Canadian economy where reciprocity with the United States still does not meaningfully exist: supply‑managed agriculture, softwood lumber, sheltered finance, and telecom.
• Canada’s dependence on U.S. downstream refining capacity for heavy crude shows how real continental interdependence already is, while its openness to subsidized Chinese EV imports underscores the same danger Krugman identified in Europe: allowing Chinese overcapacity to hollow out domestic industry.
• Trump saw that first.
• He understood before most of the establishment that the global economy was shifting from efficiency to security, from comparative advantage in the abstract to productive capacity in the real world. Now even his critics are conceding the point. The only serious question left is whether governments are prepared to act on what Trump understood long before they did.

Care of X-22

Spencer Pratt just eviscerates Mandammi. And yes the SOB is sitting at George Washington’s desk!

https://nitter.poast.org/EricLDaugh/status/2073545689464815905

The desk is a real historic artifact: George Washington used it in Federal Hall (the first U.S. Capitol in New York) during his presidency in 1789. It was later moved to NYC City Hall’s Governor’s Room in 1844, where it has been displayed as a museum piece and historic furnishing for decades. 

It is a partner’s desk (double-sided design), intentionally made so two people can sit facing each other across it. This explains why it appears “backwards” from the camera’s/viewer’s perspective in the video—the drawers face outward toward the audience when the speaker sits on the opposite side. This is not a deliberate flip or symbolism; it’s how the desk is built and typically positioned/filmed. Many replies to Pratt’s post correctly pointed this out.

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Eric Daugherty @EricLDaugh
Jul 4

🚨 HOLY SMOKES. Spencer Pratt just OBLITERATED Communist Ugandan Mayor Mamdani for 5 minutes straight “F*CK YOU, COMMUNIST! This is OUR HOME and YOU CAN’T HAVE IT.”

“Commie Mamdani’s ancestors NEVER BLED FOR THIS COUNTRY. He has no history here. So he has no attachment to our home. He has no place to rewrite our history and lecture us about what our country stands for!”

🔥🔥🔥 “We aren’t cowards. We don’t turn our backs on the painful memories because they make us who we are. Be proud of our country, damn it!”

“We all had to sit and watch that vile commie mayor sit on the wrong side of our founding father’s desk to try and lecture us about our own history!”

“Notice how the communists always attacks your history. The communists must attack YOUR history.”

“Why? Because history is what anchors you. It’s what makes us attached to something.”

“Erasing history is how you demoralize people, how you unmoor them, and detach them from their society, so you can take it from them and rewrite it in your image!”

“Communism is an evil anti-human religion. So it must destroy what makes us human. The Communist destroys your history so he can take your home and rebuild it in his image.”

“That’s why it’s your patriotic duty to celebrate today unashamed. It’s okay to love America. Not only is it okay to love America, it’s necessary to love America.”

“Our history is violent. F*ck yeah it is. And that’s why we love it!”

“Not only is it a miracle that this radical experiment itself, governance even survived past 1776. But we are the champions of the world. Be proud of that.”

“Be proud of your history. Millions of your ancestors fought and died to preserve it.

“So celebrate today. Show some American pride. Honor your history. Raise your flag”

“Today we celebrate our Independence Day. God bless America.”

Those who do not have a history of violence are either dead or slaves. (As the Brits about whether or not they are actually free.)