2026.04.14 Daily Thread: The World According to Trade(Bait)

In honor of a day in America that led to slavery of all tax paying citizens, April 15, we dedicate this opener. It will not delve much into the history of the income tax’s origin, Gail has already handled that quite well and I urge you to read her works related to it. In them we revisit the period around 1913 and its many federal government related acts of aggression against We the People with the income tax being a big one.

I want to focus more on the way out of it, which #47 and Scott Bessent are orchestrating, now that we know tariffs are going to stay in play. We know the Fed is in process of being neutered and in the process, our petro dollar based fiat currency reserve will change to a version closer to what we had pre 1971 when gold was still the standard bearer and markets were less volatile with their bubbles and busts. Those were the days that brought us these immortal words that are still how it all should go,

#47 already told all of us how our nation can earn it – by him and future Presidents using tariffs.

So, let’s focus on how Trade thinks this may be positioned to go.

National Piggy Bank

Very few people will deny that it seems the entire world has used us as one. My goodness, the tossing money at illegal aliens, NGOs, fraudsters, foreign nations, and a sundry of criminal causes and enterprises of the moment for decades has been mind blowing. Most of us had no idea that trade imbalances were being built through unfair trade practices as long as that cheap shiz from China, Bangladesh, Meh-i-co and such kept showing up on our doorsteps. Once it was starting to be exposed, most of us could not get it off our minds how we have been lied to and used continuously for questionable to horrible purposes that had less than zero long lasting benefit to us. The worst part is it has resulted in a $38+ trillion and climbing national debt. We have all been paying excess taxes to support thieves and war pigs the entire time going back to the Vietnam War.

That is coming to an end. Many simultaneous actions are being undertaken by #47 which will stem the tide and then seemingly all at once, eliminate it. Our role is to keep the pressure on elected officials and the judiciary. We need to help Trump be Trump, to be followed by Vance being Vance, Rubio being Rubio, etc.

Who holds the largest amount of the debt? The same entity that will have #47’s hand pick take over as Chairman soon. Expect things to radically, but quietly change at the Fed and with the changes the national debt picture. Besides lower interest rates, it will probably include the spin out of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac into private entities that removed contingent debt from our collective books, marking our strategic reserves of gold and silver to market, market moves internationally to sell some debt, and possibly bankrupting a few complicit mega national banks and even Fed banks that have insufficient cash to meet their requirements.

That is even leaving out the effects of the potential use of stablecoin with blockchain tech.

All of the planned and already staged actions reduce inflation and interest rate volatility. So why is that so important? Simply, for every 1% reduction in the fed funds rate, there is a reduction in debt service interest of $500 – 600 billion. The current rate is 150-200 basis points (1.5 – 2.0%) higher than debt markets, economic activities, employment, and inflation indicate it should be. This has gone on for the entire first plus year of #47’s term. That tells us that at the time of this post that close to $1.5 trillion of our annual deficit is bogus just on that one issue. Why? The Fed has been doing it because some large international banks, their masters, have been running out of cash liquidity. Cutting to the chase – it has been an ongoing manipulation that hurts We the People in exchange for propping up their elitist scum bucket friends.

The dirty, not so secret, secret is they are upside down on derivatives in the big banking world. The Fed with their mega bank cronies, including the Euros, are trying to keep enough cash in the connected banking system to stay afloat. They do that by keeping the Fed Funds rate higher than the economics indicate plus while rolling the currency printing presses. You do not have to be a financial expert to tell which banks are most endangered. Just consider the individual responses to #47 and Bessent’s policies and statements. The move away from fiat currency puts holes in and in some cases sinks many of their boats. Even with that, many nations and mega banks are capitulating worldwide starting in Switzerland and progressing through the EU as Bessent turns the screws. Add in the effects of taking Iran out as a lever of their power and it seems tough times are ahead for many EU globalists. Spain has been particularly offended of late. Oh well…

The obstruction led by Jerome Powell has been criminal and even treasonous in my book. He has been screwing all of us, not just #47, in an effort to save the globalist cabal’s kingdom. America Last has been the Dems and Fed’s mission for many years.

The major ratings agencies have been telling the world for years that our growing national debt is a huge problem. It has not been a secret to anybody. Despite knowing that, the world invested into the debt of America, Inc. Instead of seeking funds from selling debt, It seems that the #47 generated trillions in investment into America to avoid tariffs. That spikes fed revenues over a relatively short period of time and leads to the win in The Golden Age that follows once the old guard’s thieving is kaput.

So what does all of that mean for We the People?

Trump Accounts & More

Now that we have identified a relatively easy solution to $1.5 trillion or more in annual deficit just with Fed interest rates being normalized, let’s look at another big ticket annual cost. How many reading this know how much of the federal budget, not the annual overspend (deficit), is comprised of the entitlement program of Social Security?

It is approximately 21% ($1.5 T) of the expenditures annually. Funny, that amount appears again.

One way to look at it is that it is a pretty big chunk that makes up much, if not all of the annual deficit even with the efforts of DOGE and other savings have kicked in. You do understand that the feds do not really lockbox your Social Security contributions, right? It all goes into the same pot and is used for the same grifting even with the separate accounting. They are Ponzi scheming. They are using a growing population’s contributions (including a previously exploding illegal alien population using fake ID’s/SS numbers) to fund existing enrollee funds allocations. Please tell me you remember they just removed over 12 million SS account recipients over the age of 110 or so. All were recipients of monthly checks and likely “voted” in our elections. You do know that most of that money was going to fake ID illegals who funneled it back to their handlers who fund the crooked politicians and government criminals.

Which is one major reason why the cabal members wanted a lot of older people to die with the COVID plandemic (scamdemic, hoax, whatever you want to call it). Scare enough of the sheeple into taking clot shots that accelerate the death rate to improve the actuarial tables to help fund the projected outflow to the criminals.

The problem they experienced has been that more people began to be skeptical about all of the COVID boosters and the fear porn they used. Fool me once applied as the resulting health issues of jabees became ill and died. The first two clot shots did some damage to the 70% or so of Americans who took them. However, to achieve the full kill effect they targeted, they needed far more sheeple to have 5+ shots. You know that is the number from PAVACA’s incredible research.

Meanwhile, MAGA patriots saw through it even when our germaphobe leader still backed his Warp Speed program. He read the tea leaves and backed off somewhat. He went on to have Bobby take over HHS and fully supported him to complete his personal withdrawal from weighing in on the issue, thankfully.

Now, a large number of younger MAGA patriots are doing what Charlie Kirk said to do all along – love Jesus, love country, get married and have babies. #47 along with JD became close to Charlie. They believed in him and the mission of TPUSA. So after he was elected he saw that TPUSA could help save America short and long term. Now the only defense that have are paid fake MAGA influencers who are rapidly declining in influence as their shilling is revealed.

We all knew the enemies of America would drink their own kool-aid and kill themselves off eventually, they always do. The Karens and Kens of baby making age are not into having kids anyway. Most Karens cannot even get a Ken interested in them. much less a MAGA male. Once the illegals were heading home, the left has effectively been isolated and continues to destroy themselves in incredibly stupid attempts to stay relevant.

Enter Trump Accounts and increased BBB child tax credits. Trump Accounts are rewards for baby making to encourage a return to understanding capitalism and the American Way. Funding initially will come from entities and private business people such as Michael Dell and wife. Promises from #47 indicate there is more on the way and it appears funding can even come from future “dividends” he declares from the coffers of America, Inc. Those revenues would undoubtedly come from, drumroll please, tariffs.

If families also invest funds in to their children’s accounts and the feds manage the funds as proposed well, the index accounts they use to produce anticipated historical returns of 8-15% over time will allow our young people to roll the dice and leave the funds invested. Or they can use for education, buy a home, and so on. Program details will be coming in advance of the July roll out.

But wait, there is MOAR!

Back To Social Security

Building Trump Accounts into the psyche and lexicon of the American public opens the door for younger adults to seek personal investment and private retirement funding exclusive of the current Social Security methodology and delivery because they doubt it will exist when they get there. For the record, I doubted as well some four decades ago and yet, here we are still receiving benefits.

For some of of us oldsters, we remember when many employers stopped offering defined benefit pension plans as 401-k style plans were first developed and approved by the federal government. The standard bearing, universally employer offered Defined Benefit Plans are very expensive for employers to maintain and as the average American lifespan increased, even more so. To protect recipients who worked many years to earn good ones, the federal government established an agency, the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (PBGC), to insure all plans. Employers pay fees to the PBGC that insures all recipients will receive their pensions even it there becomes a situation that there are insufficient funds available in each employer pension plan.

Employers sought a less expensive answer for retirement and the 401-k was devised along with other similar plans. Most employers stopped offering defined benefit plans and offered 401-k plans to replace. Benefits for existing participants in the former were frozen at their current levels for existing employees. The employees then began contributing to their own retirements in the latter. Many employers began offering some level of match of the amount an employee contributed subject to individual plan parameters and federal regulations. The better the employer did financially, the more some would contribute. The employee would choose their investments from a smorgasbord of options in mutual funds, bond funds and money market rates. Over time the vast majority of retirement plans have evolved to this type.

At this point, you should be seeing what may be coming with “Social Security” in the future.

Trump Accounts are the educator, the government does the investing for you, just in index funds instead of interest starved Treasuries. So, instead of the low risk, low ball fake SS investment model; they get to prove themselves worthy of the new method that will still be regulated. Unlike Social Security’s Ponzi scheme, Trump type accounts are actually invested into equities and bond markets using index funds. That helps fuel our capitalism based economy. Win-win applies. The returns people receive based on historical performance of index funds far exceeds inflation, treasury bond rates and bank interest on savings instruments.

Again, the current Social Security program is nothing more than a Ponzi weirded Defined Benefit Pension Plan with the federal government tax revenues funding it based on antiquated ways to take care of the income needs of senior citizens. By giving all adult citizens the option to go with a federal government version of a 401-k, which is what a Trump Account resembles, the government no longer has to fund the SS program for those who seek to have better returns and control over their money and futures. The SS funding gets shored up as needed through tariff revenues as all of the old users pass away.

Independence matters. Making market returns is important. Fueling education and investment into capitalism is crucially important. We did not become the greatest nation on earth by being Marxists and compliant sheeple. Patriotic Americans are bold innovators and hard workers.

Your Budget

I hope I do not have to tell you what lowering the interest rates and increasing the fuel and power generation supplies in America does to the costs of household budgets. Then add in what the BBB did to personal income taxes. The snowball rolling downhill has already begun.

It matters to us in flyover country what happens in the Strait of Hormuz. Destroy the sponsors of terrorism and the world gets flooded with oil that we already have more than ample supply of domestically. What does that tell you about future energy costs, which flows into the cost of products and services?

Lower interest rates do not just apply to home mortgages, car loans, and credit cards; the lower rates apply to funds borrowed by businesses as well as government. The fuel and power costs lowers prices the same ways including transportation costs. Less taxes paid are obvious. All of if increases available consumer spending for more and more American made products, which increases jobs and related wage rates and benefits. Meanwhile illegals are going home, who have been taking many jobs at below market wages without paying taxes, yet, voting and receiving government and medical services

All of the activity increases fed tax revenues, reduces government borrowing (bonds), and reduces the interest cost in the federal budget. That accelerates the elimination of the annual budget deficit as well as national debt over time. More international business investment and growth decreases wars just as all of PDT’s economically driven peace deals have done.

Conclusion

By supporting common sense moves the entire annual deficit at current levels should be eliminated at a good, measured pace. The moves even leave ample room for the support of PDT’s proposed military budget increase as the funding flows into job creation as well as preserving our freedom. That expands our national influence and prevents foreign aggression for decades to come. Peace through strength again proves to be the best deterrent there is.

The war pigs still lose along with all of the forever war politicians aligned with them.

Is that lead AI generated pig Lindsey Graham?

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2026.03.31 Daily Thread: The World According to Trade(Bait)

Today we are going to discuss – BUDGETS! Yeah! Everybody loves a budget. Right?! No?! Wut? You don’t love having a budget or even talking about them? Dang. Maybe I can change your mind. Maybe not.

With all of the unnecessary drama about the funding issues caused by Demoncrap politics and R-con pansies primarily in Club Senate, we need to remember all of it can be fixed if We the People keep the hammer down on ALL elected officials. I will be suggesting a couple of methods further down in this text for when America First MAGA decides to wield its power on the elected officials nationwide.

But first, let’s see what The Word has to say about a related subject. First from the Old Testament in Proverbs 21:5.

“The plans of the diligent lead to profit as surely as haste leads to poverty.”

The next is from the New Testament in Luke 14:28.

“Suppose one of you wants to build a tower. Won’t you first sit down and estimate the cost to see if you have enough money to complete it?

We see that the prudent person makes plans that leads to success while the impulsive goes broke. In keeping with that, if you are planning to build or do something, you need to know how much it will cost or else it may not get done.

So plan for success. Check. Determine the cost and how much money you need to get it done. Check. Yeah, you know that means to BUDGET.

Simple concept to understand and execute if we are disciplined enough to do it. The problem is the majority of humanity rarely does. The attitude is “We don’t need no stinkin’ budgets (badges)!”

Budgets

I am not going to bore readers with a discussion on how to budget. You know how, you need to just do it. Below are some recommendations of types if you need them.

https://www.thrivent.com/insights/budgeting-saving/types-of-budgets-5-most-popular-methods-examples-who-theyre-best-for

Wifey and I have never budgeted annually. Instead we plan and do our version of the No-budget Budget continuously as in the link. Which means planning long term for purchases, investments and other major uses while controlling spending to build surpluses. Then we spend the money at the right time and always look for the low point in pricing of whatever it is, which can be on sale, seasonal, negotiable, etc. We do not agonize over spending the funds since we planned and did our due diligence about a product or purpose. This method works for even emergency usage purposes. You simply think through what could happen and plan for possible emergency needs along with allocating funds to savings over time.

However, the budgeting I am primarily discussing today is our nation’s.

Federal Budgets

When was the last time a full budget of our federal government was approved by both houses of Congress and signed into law by the POTUS on time before the fiscal year began, which means without use of continuing resolutions (CR’s)?

No fair cheating and asking AI. Well, OK, go ahead if you must.

The year was 1997. Yup, about three decades ago. So let’s revisit some headlines from those days.

Slick was still doing the dirty with Monica.

Sorry, couldn’t resist. 😂

Ireland granted a divorce for the first time in its history, Notorius B.I.G. was shot to death at an LA stoplight, Heaven’s Gate cult members committed mass suicide in SoCal, Timothy McVeigh was convicted of the Okie City bombing,

Tiger Woods won his first Masters. Shockingly, he is still alive after winning more and blowing up his body and personal life multiple times.

Hong Kong was returned to China, Princess Di died in that Paris car crash, John Denver died in a private plane crash, Elton John hit the top of the charts with Candle in the Wind, and the Titanic mega movie hit theaters.

The economy was buzzing. Newt’s Contract with America was paying big dividends and Slick was staying out of the way while taking all the credit; which was always the Clinton’s favorite move. The GDP had grown to a dazzling (for them and then) 3.75% range and markets were good with the Dow Jones Industrial Index closing at 7908. My own small business banking career was beginning to take off. Life was good in general for much of our population. The following Fed annual report can inform anybody who wants to know more about our nation’s financial condition.

https://www.federalreserve.gov/boarddocs/rptcongress/annual97/ar97_02.pdf

Fast forward a half dozen years and the trends may start making you depressed as you remember then and now. Look at how much the deficit has increased since the last annual budget surplus was achieved in 2001. Since that point our nation has experienced 9/11, forever wars, the debt markets collapse and Great Recession beginning in 2008, Russia Russia Russia, the COVID scamdemic, openly stolen elections and lighting a match to more money than we can count supporting Nazis in Ukraine. It has been almost like we were in a controlled state of demolition as a country. Right?

Well, what nation or nations rose during that period? Yup. What elected officials aligned with those nations during the period? What industries and companies benefitted the most from the answers to those questions? What events distracted We the People from the answers to those first two questions?

It has been as simple to analyze and understand as answering those type questions.

Today

We the People have learned much through those 25 years. We learned that the old rules, thoughts and ways of doing things are no longer productive or necessary. Citizen ownership of guns and concealed carry permits/licenses have exploded. We learned that many kids did not succeed in public schools or live well after getting shot up with endless vaccines. Prepper supplies and info sold like hotcakes. We have learned that Big Pharm, CDC, FDA, NIH and a sundry of medical professionals as well as related industries, organizations and schools are extremely dangerous scam artists and liars who are willing to commit genocide for a buck. We learned that some believe there are dozens of genders with matching pronouns, you can mutilate a human to make it a different sex to affirm the “dignity” of the person, that sexual perversion is cool and normal, that you can dress like an animal and use a kitty litter box instead of a toilet even in public schools, that baby parts and blood help old human demons stay alive, and so on.

You get the picture.

We also learned about a guy named Trump. Boy, did we ever learn. The entire globalist world upchucked on itself when #45 happened. We MAGA types could scarce believe our good fortune. We knew we were cooked as an independent nation without a force such as him and the patriots taking over. He brought incredible economic growth despite all of the skullduggery of the wicked globalists who opposed his every move and tried to take him down.

From these experiences we also learned on a more mundane business of We the People level that the nation does not need an annual federal budget since there has not been one that mattered even when eventually one would get done well into a fiscal year THROUGHOUT THE ENTIRE PERIOD.

A few years of stupidity is one thing, a quarter century of it should be enough for everybody to admit that things have to change.

It no longer mattered because the federal government ALWAYS spent far more than the revenues they forecast or received because investors and other countries continued to invest in our debt (Treasuries). At least they did when the Treasury and Fed were not issuing and buying back their own debt. Say hello to quantitative easing. Had the inflow and creation of funds out of thin air stopped, the excessive spending would have stopped and the complicit businesses that caused the fiscal nightmare to the economy would have hit the bankruptcy courts. But the politicians could not have that because there personal incomes would take a hit.

America provided foreign investors a perceived safe harbor such that they made an acceptable rate of return orchestrated by a compliant and complicit Fed, which is not controlled by the POTUS or Congress despite being technically under the U. S. Treasury. That was the brilliant evil that came from the globalist ghosts of Jekyll Island. Ot course the politicians have been all too happy to play along with the scam as they became richer and richer.

Some created funds usage went for nefarious purposes of weakening our nation’s economic condition to the delight of the Uniparty, War Pigs and other enemies of the Republic who benefitted. Trump and patriots are dismantling one of their primarily beneficiaries – the Islamic Republic of Iran, before our very eyes today. The international corruption became business as usual, entrenched and built into the system that eroded the wealth of our middle class. The national debt and annual deficits exploded.

The submitted budgets from Congress and Presidents never practically balanced and there have been no restraints. They were fantasy and lipstick on the pig. It was all SWAG based using phony baloney projections and assumptions cooked up by partisan political hacks and backed by the Dem controlled Congressional Budget Office (CBO) and other swamp critters. The Republicons never cared enough to clean house when they won elections, they wanted theirs as well. Congress continued to spend like drunken sailors with no thoughts of tomorrow or We the People because most were in on the money grab. Explain the massive fortunes these elected officials accumulated during their times in office any other way. Their operatives made out like bandits as well in high paying, fake government jobs which led to the radical blue area support in DC, northern VA, Maryland, Delaware, etc.

All of it proves we do not need to keep doing annual budgets in our status quo halls of Congress since they have been weaponized against We the People. It will remain that way to some degree until/if a balanced budget amendment is passed. Until then, I suggest we think outside the box and upset the Deep State apple carts permanently with the following.

Perpetual Budgeting

Sometimes known as a continuous budget in the spirit of our personal budget model discussed above; the perpetual budget provides for updating on a regular, usually monthly or quarterly, basis as well as when major plans and changes in budget are approved and implemented. In this case that latter point would happen as major legislation is passed that requires budget adjustment. As an example, when one month or quarter is completed another is added. There would be no requirement that a budget of that type be done only on an annual basis. It could be for two or four years as examples, if at all after the initial one is passed. There is no Constitutional requirement for an annual federal budget. That is an outgrowth of the House of Representatives being granted authority over the purse. It is a practice that is lawful, but without specific provision.

https://law.stackexchange.com/questions/101136/does-the-united-states-constitution-impose-an-obligation-on-congress-to-pass-a-b

For what it is worth, in my best Scott interrogation of Chat GPT, I took it down and made it apologize for saying there was a Constitutional requirement with its first response.

😂

To effect the change would mean legislative approval would be required to modify the process from the existing selected method of practice and procedure. Which is a timing issue for when a white hat GOP group of patriots gained control of Congress. When explained to American citizens it would become another 80/20 approval of the measure. The continuous haggling and posturing over budget matters would end. The fake news media would hate it and oppose. They might have to actually work as journalists to survive instead of the profiting from the Kabuki Theater we see today.

When used with a Balanced Budget Amendment (BBA) the perpetual budget would require significant proof, not faked estimates, of funds and revenue stream availability to justify any additional allocation or increase in appropriation as well as the increases in costs and expenses. There would need to be approval from Congress to make budget changes to ongoing appropriations and allocations That could potentially slow “progress” down, not a bad thing in some cases as it would slow the mischief of the Uniparty.

With the dynamics of our huge budget that has so many moving parts and the rapidly growing tariff revenues, the flexibility of continuous budgeting would put a headlock on the current and future political gridlock in Congress over CR’s and “annual” budget appropriations.

What some folks miss is that many programs and departments in the federal government have “end” (termination) dates that are forgotten or intentionally ignored. Instead they get continually renewed through CR’s and inattention. This keeps operatives employed and making mischief throughout the system to enrich the participants. In perpetual budgeting they are automatically ended unless extensions are approved in advance by Congress. We the People will know if we are provided transparent access to the financial workings of our nation, which is a goal of DOGE and U. S. DOGE Service.

It would also be an ideal weapon for PDT and future patriot Presidents to respond to opportunities throughout the globe as well as a deterrent for excessive spending by any elected officials. As an example, if American citizens got stupid and voted more criminals into power, the codifying of perpetual budgeting and the BBA would provide a good defense.

The operations of America, Inc. would take a more business as usual approach that would kill the Uniparty’s hellbent desire to spend other people’s money (ours) for personal and NGO gain. Political battles, holding payroll hostage and posturing in the media over CR’s would end as well. CR’s that have been a plague on our nation for 25+ years would have no reason to even exist.

Perpetual budgets would reduce the numbers of non-productive budget personnel in every area of government. With the new AI based operating system that is envisioned and being implemented there are less “hands” in the process as well as the till. The archaic always wrong, Demoncrap controlled CBO would be revamped to reflect current and proposed methods that actually work as well as using real time financial activity. Forecasting would become much more accurate and predictable, which would benefit all of us.

Our elected officials need to be more responsive to a rapidly changing, dangerous world while being much more responsive to We the People. The old ways and games they play need to come to an end. The Fed report I linked near the beginning is the type report and analysis they still do today. It is passé. PDT is trying to force the federal government and Federal Reserve into current times since what formerly was, is no more. Scott Bessent is being a hammer in Treasury and on the world stage. We do not need the old business as usual to throw a monkey wrench into The Golden Age. The unelected Fed would be completely removed from policy making, a goal of #47’s admin. Along with the proposed changes in the CBO, the Uniparty and Deep State would lose serious levers to their ages old political stranglehold on power and access to money to fund their devious schemes and activities.

I have provided a balanced look at Perpetual Budgeting in summary form in the link below for those who want to know more, while at the same time knowing that many readers will not do so. 😂 Perpetual budgeting does not have to be strict and narrow, it can be adapted to government accountability needs that make sense. Think practical and pragmatic, not political and corrupt. Think innovatively, not stuck in what seems to have always been. If 1913 taught us anything, the paradigms can be changed for good or for evil.

https://www.accountingtools.com/articles/what-is-a-perpetual-budget.html

Think about it (or not).

Krazy Karen & Ken Korner

For what it is worth, if you are unaware of him, brandonjamal is brutally honest with a potty mouth.

This one is potty mouth truth telling.

😂

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2026.03.24 Daily Thread: The World According To Trade(Bait)

Slow Guy is ahead of the game. 😀

Posts from 3/21 Daily Thread:

“Along those lines, I offer another big revelation.

Lloyd’s, London, England…manipulating the world.

  • THIS will end.”

And…

“100%. In the very short-term, Lloyd’s will deliver the insurance.

Then American capitalism will, take over the market. T A W.

Yup. I am just surprised more have not figured it and the bigger picture out yet.

Game over, redcoats.

It’s about America, Inc.

When a world leader is an elite businessman and deal maker, most paradigms will change. Historical context becomes limited in value except when dealing with detractors, seditionists, etc. such as the hurdles caused by the Uniparty and SCOTUS. However, there are historical processes that actually have worked successfully in the past such as tariffs that can be brought forward to orchestrate a paradigm shift.

President Trump told everybody as #45 that peace would come from being successful. He believes in the same thing I have been posting from my own life experiences – abundance over scarcity. It is a Biblical concept that has been proven true forever. You will find good, white hats, love, acceptance, peace, security, prosperity and so on – success – from sharing within the abundance approach. God provided for everybody. More than we ever dreamed possible is sitting right at our figurative feet. Satan, his demons and all of the black hats sell scarcity. They want people to believe there is only so much. They then go about taking all of it they can by whatever means they need to use. That promotes feelings of insecurity and impotence, which makes their looting even easier.

Explain what you see from the Democrat Party any other way. They are after power and money at all costs. Screw everybody and anything else.

That is until they breathe their last breaths.

We have arrived at our nation’s inflection point. Definition – “A moment of dramatic change, especially in the development of a company, industry, or market.” Except in this context it is a nation and world inflection point.

#47 has been taking America and its allies back to the big time growth stage of the life cycle. Some are being forced while kicking and screaming like spoiled brats. America was in a major decline stage. So many Americans were in that same sad condition as many Europeans.

Think Bell Curve – left to right. Emerging, Growth, Maturity, Decline (Dead Dog – hence “we were a dead country and now we are the hottest” comments from #47).

Life Cycle

#47 is taking us from a deep dive on the right back to about mid point of the trajectory up on the left. When radical moves like that are made, which we voted for, it requires radical change to build the foundation for the growth that is to come. We pushed the button, #47 implemented the America First master plan. All of it is well underway today. The top of the curve is the sweet spot for the elimination of all national debt. At that point, we will be loaded and flush with funds just as this country was in the later quarter of the 19th century. We the People receive the ultimate benefits, but the rest of the world that plays along also greatly benefits.

Forward Prediction

The world as we know it will be about regional polarity. Donroe is for our hemisphere – our sphere of influence and leadership. Europe gets to slug out theirs with Russia. China and India take Asia and the pacific rim other than Japan, Philippines, etc. Our ancestors bled out too much to walk away from them and their strategic value. We will always counter balance aggression with strategic alliances throughout the world including Africa.

As an example, Australia and NZ have been cozying up with China for quite some time. NZ is the desired escape destination for many wealthy leftists, who are in China’s pocket as we know. As a result Five Eyes should die along with the move away from propping up NATO.

The other major world leaders will not be hostile enemies in this scenario. However, they will be in the ‘verify before trusting’ category. Our resources will be reserved for our interests and not be given and thrown away as they have for over a century. BRICS will become unnecessary now that the globalists are being vanquished. The world economy will implement blockchain. As long as adequate, preventive capabilities and provisions are implemented against hacking, it creates a level playing field worldwide. It eliminates intermediaries. It also destroys the central banks of the world’s power and control. If the downside risks from electronic/digital criminal activities are addressed, the exchanges can take place in nanoseconds worldwide as well as be based on agreed worldwide exchange standards whether that may be gold, silver, oil, whatever.

It is easy to see a future where peace and productivity are greatly rewarded instead of penalized by taxes, government/NGO graft and fraud, and forever wars.

Abundance is win-win. Win-lose is scarcity. Choose life, not death. Choose abundance.

We continue to fight, fight, fight. Do not get weary, the effort will be worth it.

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KMAG DAILY THREAD 20260114 & LaRouche’s physical economy

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Although I am not an economist, I have observed that as mankind harnessed increasingly better sources of energy, civilization exploded. Mankind went from literal manpower – slavery & subsistence farming — to the first agricultural revolution, using animal power, and to the second agricultural revolution with mechanical power provided by factory-made equipment and tractors. As people were freed from having to scrounge for food, leisure time increased and innovation took off.

Where are we now? It has become obvious since President Kennedy’s death that the United States economy is deliberately being hamstrung.


“In fact, giving society cheap, abundant energy at this point would be the moral equivalent of giving an idiot child a machine gun. With cheap, abundant energy, the attempt clearly would be made to pave, develop, industrialize, and exploit every last bit of the planet—a trend that would inevitably lead to a collapse of the life-support systems upon which civilization depends.”

—  Paul R. Ehrlich “An ecologist’s perspective on nuclear power”, Federation of American Scientists Public Interest Report vol. 28, no. 5-6 (May-June, 1975) page 5.

And from Obama’s Science Czar.

That brings us to POTUS Trump and his cabinet’s work on the economy.

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent says at 16 minutes:

I think we’re going to see big employment growth this year. And these GDP numbers. I think the real vindication here, Chris, is that the 4.3% GDP number for the third quarter was really 4.7% or 4.8% in the private sector. We shrank the government by 3 to 4 tenths of a percent of GDP. So that [4.3% GDP] was a muted number. The private sector of the United States of America is going gang busters and I think we’re going to see it in 2026. So yeah, President Trump has these hats in the oval that say Donald Trump was right about everything. He was definitely right about economics this time.

(Video 18 min)


What Is Gross Domestic Product (GDP)? — Investopedia

Gross Domestic Product (GDP) includes consumer spending, government spending, net exports, and total investments. It functions as a comprehensive scorecard of a country’s economic health. GDP may be adjusted for inflation and population to provide deeper insights. Real GDP accounts for inflation, while Nominal GDP does not.

It [GDP] functions as a comprehensive scorecard of a country’s economic health.”

I am not an economist, but I absolutely have a major problem in calling the GDP (as defined) the “scorecard of a country’s economic health.”

What does the spending on bureaucrat salaries do to our economy? It stifles it!

6/21/2013 — Federal Regulations Have Made You 75 Percent Poorer

U.S. GDP is just $16 trillion instead of $54 trillion… in the absence of six decades of accumulated regulations—a median household income of $330,000 instead of the $53,000 we get now.

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I was aware that Susan Kokinda and the people at Promethean Action did not like either Keynes OR Mises. Iwas re-listening to a fiveweek old interview of Susan Kokindaand she mentioned LaRouche’s physical economy, and asked myself the innocent question, “What is LaRouche’s physical economy?” OH! Boy, did I fall into a major rabbit hole thanks to my curiosity bump.

I was aware of Keynesian Economics of British Fabian origin.

H/T Investopedia

And Ludwig von Mises and Austrian Economics

H/T Investopedia


Tradebait2 has brought these two short videos to the Qtree on occasion. Hayek & Mises were both from the Austrian school of economics.

March 2011 Fabian: John Maynard Keynes, the stealthy enemy of human freedom by Sanjeev Sabhlok

He is a science graduate who went into economics. I thought I had a poor opinion of Keynes, however this guy reams him.

…Without firm roots in classical economics, I believe that modern economists tend to rapidly move into statist solutions.

Keynes still has a significant presence in the academia through New Keynesianism (e.g. Stiglitz, Kruman), and receives prominence each time the US government agencies and Federal Reserve Bank – that have diligently followed his ideas – mess up things.

Indeed, that’s the other point – that Keynes is still very prominent inside government agencies. Keynes is the cause of serious government failure across the world and significant devaluation of currencies. The (Fabian) London School of Economics, the League of Nations, the New Deal, the welfare state, various international central bank concepts that led to the International Monetary Fund, the World Bank, the Brettonwoods system which led to the collapse of the gold standard, and even the United Nations – all have been strongly influenced by the Fabians, but more particularly Keynes. 

Hence his ideas MUST BE OPPOSED. Till today I only opposed his ideas. From today, I now oppose his person, as well. Keynes at Harvard has opened my eyes….

However I had never hear of physical economics before and wondered if it was close to my observations. I started my search by looking up ‘Physical Economics’ in Brave.

Physical Economics

In economics, physical economics is the study of economic phenomenon from the point of view of physics.

POLITICS

In politics, a version of “physical economy” is often found promoted by Lyndon LaRouche, or his followers, but is a version of physical economics that is a barely digestible rewritten spinoff of what seems to be the biosphere-noosphere ideas of Vladimir Vernadsky, employed for nothing more than polemics. [4]

4. LaRouche, Lyndon H. Jr. (2009). “The Science of Physical Economy”, BiblioTecapleyades.net.

EXTERNAL LINK
● Physical economics – Wikinfo.org


This is the cited reference & I found it very hard going because I felt as if I was dropped into the middle of a PhD discussion of a subject I never even knew existed. The following are the few pieces that made sense to me.

The Science of Physical Economy — Economics as History

Introduction

IN THE IMAGE OF THE CREATOR

…That is the science of physical economy which must now be adopted as the standard of practice used to replace what is already, since September 2007, the hopelessly failed versions of what are taught as “economics” seemingly everywhere among professionals and politicians today.

  • For example: Let us begin the presentation of the subject of this chapter by considering the physical form of economic capital in its primary character as technology, as technology is defined, rather than as a nominal value of money, in terms of qualitative degrees upward in both productivity and in the requirement of the effective equivalent of orders of increase of energy-flux density.   Consider the consumption of an investment in physical capital, from the time of its “birth” as a type of physical-functional factor in economy, rather than matters of price, considering the time until that capital investment might be considered as “used up,” as by age, wear, or technological obsolescence, in its presently invested incarnation as an actual feature of the process of production of physical wealth. Consider the value of that capital to be expressed as the relative rate of increase of productivity, per capita and per square kilometer, with which the rate of related consumption by that body, is correlated in practice.   Locate this aspect of that capital, similarly, in respect to the losses incurred, as through technological attrition, as a result of failing to supersede previously established technology by a new technology which increases the associated, relative productive powers of labor, and, also, provides the benefit to society of the consumption of the related product.

     
  • Then, ask yourself: when, in time, was the gain actually produced, and when, in time, for example, was the loss which is realized as the effect of failing to invest in that capital, as capital so defined? What does such a question evoke concerning the use of the term “physical space-time” in the field of a science of physical economy? When is what value earned, and how?

    What does that say about the follies of financial accounting, on principle? What does that say about what is presently taught as economics? What does presently taught, monetarist economics suggest itself, mistakenly, to be?…

…Today, lost time being lost time for our culture, so, we must try to make up for that, even decades later, here and now, before it is too late for present and foreseeable future generations combined. The matter of the principles of a science of physical economy, is now become, suddenly, a most urgent affair for crucial decisions to be made at each new passing point in time, including crucial decisions which must be made by society, top down, in not more than some weeks ahead, even, in the worst case, more and more, some days.

The substitution for this approach, by one based on deals, compromises, and what-not, connived at over several months to come, would be clinical insanity in the measure of their effects….

That Constitution was built on the cornerstone of the establishment of the U.S. constitutional credit-system, “still on the books” of our original Federal Constitution, which, as all witting actual patriots know, bans monetary systems, constitutionally, from the sovereign practice of the United States…

…in the late 1960s, the space-program as fostered by the dramatic initiatives of President John F. Kennedy, was advancing by proverbial leaps and bounds within the aspect of the national U.S. economy focused upon the space-program itself, despite the otherwise reigning moral and physical decay of the U.S.A…. 

In that limited sector of our economy, by about the time of the Moon-landing, we were generating an fairly estimated ten cents’ worth of growth through science-driven progress, for each penny spent. It was the other parts of the economy, not the aerospace venture, which were the already looming threat of failure, since about 1966-1968. Since that time of the Moon-landings, there have been no more such U.S. manned landings on that Moon, during four decades, up to the present day….

..the U.S. economy failed, first under the effects of the Kennedy assassinations of the 1960s, the utterly fraudulent launching of the protracted U.S. war in Indo-China, in 1964, and in the rising tide of “environmental” contraction of the U.S. economy’s net investment in basic economic infrastructure during the 1966-1971 interval. 

Thus, since March 1, 1968, the U.S.A. itself has undergone more than four decades of self-inflicted, net rot and ruin, all this chiefly the result of trends in policy-shaping guided by each and every Federal government which was installed from 1969, on, as extended to the presently accelerated moral and economic mass-insanity of the presently utterly truth-free Obama administration… and also Tony Blair-copied death-care policies…

After poking around this first time, I gave up and asked Yandex AI:

Lyndon LaRouche’s physical economy is a concept that aims to increase the relative potential population density of society by applying new technologies based on the discoveries of new physical principles. The key economic criterion, according to LaRouche, is not to buy cheap and sell expensive or to acquire rare goods, but to increase what he calls the “La,” i.e., the carrying capacity made possible by the constant introduction of new technologies1, 4

Some of the principles of LaRouche’s physical economy include:

  • Integration of international credit into a global set of fixed-exchange-rate systems to prevent significant fluctuations in exchange rates. 1
  • Regulation of prices and trade based on long-term physical investment. 1
  • Increase in energy-flux density produced per capita, per unit surface, and per gram of material used. 14
  • Use of nuclear energy as a reliable and cheap energy source. 5

LaRouche’s ideas are considered by some to be a form of pseudoscience. 3


This is from the Schiller Institute, the LaRouche organization that Susan Kokinda and Promethean Action are NOT a part of.


Jacques Cheminade: The LaRouche method of physical economy

TRANSCRIPT:

….the conception of Alexander Hamilton, the founder of the American System of political economy, which is little known in Europe. Hamilton introduced Article 1, Section 8 into the U.S. Constitution, which gives power to the U.S. Congress to issue letters of credit on the Federal government in favor of the Public Treasury, which in turn calls on the National Bank to coordinate the allocation of these credits. This concept of public credit redefines the very nature of debt: It reflects the intention of the government to pursue an action it deems necessary and to incur debt to achieve it. There is a “debt” incurred, but with no money circulating in the process, as the credit- money is just the means by which state credit is transferred and is not “liquidity.”

Hence, this system of public credit defines “value” as a means to increase the productive powers of labor (again, per capita, per unit of surface area, and per unit of materials employed). We have a physical economy in the service of man, in which the physical production of tangible goods resulting from the income generated by the project itself will supply the means to pay back the debt. Money only has a value if it is linked to the issuance of credit. Therefore, it can be called an “antiusury” system.

Abraham Lincoln said, “Man is not the only animal who labors, but he is the only one who improves his workmanship.” It is on such improvement, in contrast to monetary speculation or hopes of financial profit, that the entire Hamiltonian system is based, a system expanded and further developed by Lyndon LaRouche.

This approach is totally contrary to what has prevailed in the United States and Europe since the suppression of national banks and the public credit system. In the United States, it is by perverting the Constitution that the system was handed over to the megabanks and Wall Street. In Europe, it was the destructive development of the European Union which forced the nations to depend on credit from the same megabanks. The result is what we have defined at the beginning of this presentation: financial looting and a world, just as in the 1930s, headed straight toward war if nothing is done to stop it…

The World to Come

LaRouche’s approach has been partly taken up in the agreement of the Eurasian Economic Union and the Chinese “One Belt, One Road” project of the New Silk Road, with their credit institutions, such as the BRICS New Development Bank which has recently doubled its capital and intends to sign contracts in the currencies of the member states rather than in dollars or in euros. Therein lies a hope, and not in our transatlantic world that is running into a wall.

Therefore, let us leave behind the world of before, and fight for the world to come. Let us imagine teams of scientists, engineers, qualified technicians and workers, combining their skills and know-how on the scale of Eurasia and the world, and given the resources needed to use and permanently expand them.

Imagine how they will spark a new spirit of co-development and win-win partnership, and Lyndon LaRouche’s method of physical economy. Imagine the United States and us Europeans rediscovering our sense of mission and our constitutional principles. Is that not what the Ode to Joy, although it has become banal, really expresses? We must take Europe back from those counterfeiters of the European Union, in order to build a real Europe of projects and fatherlands and beyond, an entente, détente and cooperation among the countries of the entire world. It is with such a project, and what it inspires, that we will find in ourselves the selfrespect needed to to finish off the dominant predatory system.

LaRouche’s challenge is to muster in the 21st Century all means of a physical economy devoted to mankind to build peace through mutual development, exactly those means which were mobilized for war during a 20th Century which was financially imperial and ideologically Russellite.

Physical economy can become the most beautiful of all sciences since it will produce and transmit the good. It is the science of the human mind. LaRouche shows us the road to hope, which will not be made of roses but of combat…

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FINALLY after a lot of digging I actually came up with a decent description written by Lyndon LaRouche, Jr. It is only 2 pages. I will include a few snippets.

The Meaning of the Term ‘Physical Economy’
The Larouche Publications

Although modern physical economy was an outgrowth of the development of what was called “Cameralism,” from the work of Georgios Gemistos (Plethon) during the 15th century, through the work of such as Jean Bodin, and through the circles of Jean-Baptiste Colbert, Leibniz, Alexander Hamilton, et al., physical economy itself may be said to come into existence with Leibniz’s 1672 paper on “Society and Economy,” and was developed by Leibniz thereafter around the themes of the interdependent roles of heat-powered machinery and transformations in technology in increasing the productive powers of labor per capita and per square kilometer.


…Leibniz’s work in physical economy was introduced into the American English-speaking colonies and the United States during the 18th century…  relevant portions of Article I of the U.S. Federal Constitution, and corresponding features of the reports of U.S. Treasury Secretary Alexander Hamilton to the U.S. Congress on the subjects of Credit, a National Bank, and Manufactures are exemplary of this influence….

The division of labor can be illustrated by histograms. Thus, in the case of successful economy, the changes in the allocation of the full histogram will be consistent with the set of inequalities b). In that case, the primary inequality, a), describes the action which produces this successful result.

The practical primary work of the physical economist is devoted principally to determining, through aid of empirical studies, the appropriate scaling, and refining of this twofold set of inequalities. The secondary practical work of the economist is to map the interaction between physical economic processes, on the one side, and financial and monetary processes, on the other.

8) The crucial feature of the practice of physical economy today is the not-entropic quality characteristic of the primary inequality. The following summary suffices for purposes of broad definitions.

The characteristic feature of successful physical economies is the increase of the potential population-density of society, in per capita, per household, and per square kilometer terms. The cause of this increase is predominantly those changes in the productive powers of labor which are typified by investment in improved technologies, as the possibility of such (physical) investment is conditioned by requirements for use of sources of power and improvements in the development of the environment used for this purpose.

This measurement defines individual productive labor in terms of biophysical and cultural demographic functions of households, and defines existence of households, of individual productive labor, and of output of productive and other labor in terms of per household, per capita, and per square kilometer terms. What is measured is the production of the per capita productive powers of labor by means of the process of production so defined…

In these terms, the characteristic inequality, is:

That the continuing increase of the ratio of “free energy” to “energy of the system” is contingent upon a continuing increase of the intensity of “energy of the system” per capita, per household, and per square kilometer.

The increase in the productive powers of labor in this way, correlates with required increases in power- and water-density, with a shift from a primarily rural production, a continuing increase in basic physical infrastructure of production, and with a shift within the composition of the urban labor-force increasing relatively the ration of producers’ goods over households’ goods, of machine-tool component of producers’ goods, and with an increase in the ration of employment in “pure science and technology.”

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The following LaRouche article is care of Matt Ehret’s Rising Tide Foundation.
Matt does Breaking History with Ghost (Gordon) at Badlands Media. Now I understand where Matt got some of his ideas.


From Matt:

…The term “a rising tide lifts all boats” was first popularized by America’s 35th President John F. Kennedy who used this poetic image as a means of conveying the idea that true wealth raises everyone rich and poor alike. Describing the construction of energy projects across America, JFK said in September 1963:

When we develop these resources in the Northwest United States, it is just as well that the country realises that we are not talking about one State or two States or three States; we are talking about the United States. Our people move freely from east to west and even once in a while from west to east, but in any case, the country becomes stronger. There is an old saying that a rising tide lifts all the boats, and as the Northwest United States rises, so does the entire country, so we are glad.”

In recent years, this phrase was revived by China’s President Xi Jinping, who used it to convey the benefits of all nations’ participation in the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) as a comprehensive plan for win-win cooperation and inter-cultural connectivity centering around energy projects, rail lines, new cities, telecommunications and education.

Just like JFK’s program which involved exporting scientific, industrial and technological progress to poorer nations in order to help others’ help themselves, China has also begun extending the BRI program to Africa, Middle Eastern, Eurasia and even Latin America. And, just as JFK extended olive branches to “enemies” such as Russia and China to work together on great infrastructure and even space exploration, China has extended olive branches to the west with multiple offers to join what foreign minister Wang Yi has called a chorus of nations working to create a beautiful symphony.” —


Another Rising Tide Article: How the ‘Real’ America Is in Harmony With the Belt and Road Initiative

2025.12.09 Daily Thread – American Stories: When in the Course of human events – Part 33

This overall Trumpmania lead will have a second part next week. Hang in there, I know these require more reading than you would ordinarily want to do. Maybe you need reading material during the start of the winter doldrums. 😀 At least I hope you do as some of the subjects are pertinent to the times we live in and some of the signers discussed this month are exceptional as we wind this down.

Next year’s dailies from American Stories will be shorter and more celebratory. To better appreciate what We the People will have accomplished with our patriot leadership, we need to “see” them planting the seeds of liberty from which our beautiful nation later grew as well as review the trials and tribulations of these real people, who were just like us.

PDT’s admin is doing so many incredible things it is hard to keep up. Yet, the few negatives are always the first some people run to point out. Human nature I guess. If you want to know more how the rubber meets the road for We the People with the big stuff, please read this and the next part a week from today.

Or you can pass and focus on the fake pipe bomber, Epstein, the sport of blowing up narcos, the commie in NYC, color revolutions and other bright shiny objects from both sides.

However, it is America and you are free to play hardball or softball.

For those still reading that I have not offended or bored yet, going back a month, NYC/VA/NJ have been blue for a long time. It is a hive for unproductive, self centered sheeple and foreigners who deem themselves your betters because they are employed by the corrupted federal bureaucracy and its private support system, which you the taxpayer funds that gives them perceived importance and power. They truly treat the tax payer and Treasury’s borrowed funds as their personal piggybanks to raid for whatever they think of they want. I am not trying to disparage everybody who lives there, just the applicable, which happens to be a strong majority. I intend to disparage them. They are leeches whether they know it or not. If they had any sense of decency at all they would stop and assist #47’s administration, or, quit their fake jobs and leave the area.

I know because I spent a number of years visiting, working with and observing these people and the area of our nation’s capitol. I saw some of the inner workings of government and politics tied to the industry of my career. It did not take long to figure it out, most everybody on the Qtree would do so as well given the opportunity.

For example, we already knew northern VA would carry that state with 90+% of the federal workers who reside there with their families being donkey Dems for life going back to their father’s fathers. However, seeing the long view we know that the federal layoffs and dismantling of their gravy trains spills over. Despite their scummy candidates winning, their personal economic pain will continue, not lessen. Many of those federal jobs are not coming back or will be on the chopping block in the future. The Trump Admin will also leave jobs unfilled and allow attrition to handle some of it. The downsizing and decentralization of the federal government will continue. Federal worker unions are being neutered through judiciary decisions. The donkey Dems and their networks will eventually have to find real jobs that do not exist in that region over the next few years. It will take a couple of election cycles for a significant number of them to move out or cry “uncle” before the GOP can assert itself there and take VA into the MAGA fold. Once you head away from the hive to the central and western side of the state you realize MAGA is healthy. Patience is urged, but will be rewarded. Even NJ will gradually come into play because of the same paradigm changing moves of the #47 administration. It is two states anyway – north and south are different.

Some people on our side are missing the timing of all of what #47 and the patriots are doing for the midterms and beyond. To simplify – keep the powder dry until it is time as Q posted and has been done by successful military strategists since gunpowder existed. The attention span of many American citizens is short enough as it is. Many are in the “what did you do for me today?” camp due to impatience or greed. However, for another segment there is real economic pain. The reason for that was summarized quite well by VP JD Vance in the recent cabinet meeting that was televised.

For non-citizens who have also been illegally voting the span of time left to take advantage of We the People is much shorter. They have to make what they make and do quickly before leaving or getting deported. Their days of ripping us off are numbered. We are in the early stages now that will continue to trend well. Those struggling to make ends meet will be seeing that strain ease as that issue is handled and the BBB benefits are realized.

My advice for some MAGA and fence riders is to stop giving lip service about taking the long view and start working with the Patriots to accomplish the long view. The long view is not the midterms or immediate product price relief. The MAGA economic development plan is not being built and implemented based on lowering the price of eggs and providing more affordable housing. Those are benefits of developing and building safeguards and legal protections around an economy that provides those and many other good byproducts from doing things Constitutionally in a capitalist economy. Focusing on micro to the exclusion of macro is what got us into this mess. PDT is bringing a full bore strategy of abundance to all people of the world who seek peace and success. The leftist idgits always operate on power seeking and scarcity of wealth that they can hoard.

Sometimes it all seems too much to comprehend to know how to help. Simply calling the ICE hotline on suspected illegals helps you and your fellow citizens. The link to that number and a summary of what they do is below,

https://www.ice.gov/tipline

Volunteer as an election worker where you live. You will get to visit with folks and observe. If you see something, say something.

It all adds up and you will be contributing to the success of America.

Product Prices

The current prices that average Americans pay should not be expected to drop significantly except for those costs that are tied to fuel prices. If they do drop like egg prices have, great, will take it. What matters most is the drop in crude oil prices as that long term strategy impacts product costs worldwide. Worldwide effects are important because of how much we import from other countries and use as consumers. For economic sanctions to work to help stop forever wars and commie aggression, the supply of crude oil has to be increased and domestically controlled. Once some of the international warring is handled by PDT, the world oil supply will strongly increase and with it, significantly decrease fuel costs to users. That is when food and household items will start moving down in price more because they are interrelated. Supplies increase, lesser number of buyers as illegals depart, wars stop so market disruption is less, and as a result prices trend down.

However, there has been a wildcard to address. The corresponding supply of final product fuels being produced from refineries in our country has not been materially increased for decades. We need more refinery capacity to get it to the pump in sufficient volumes to drop the prices to where most Americans can really benefit. #47 and the GOP are on it, the plans and development for it are being completed behind the scenes and out of the fake media. Another factor in why the gas prices have not dropped even faster is that PDT has been refilling the strategic oil reserve that Brandon depleted to pretend gas prices had stabilized in the lead up to the 2024 election. When that is finished there will be less crude oil demand and more supply available, which drops prices. But for now, national defense matters. PDT is using the current positive momentum to take care of our security needs as a nation.

This point is important. The first major new refinery since 1976 – a half century – is being built in Brownsville, TX and will come on line in 2027. It will add 160 K barrels a day to the nation’s supply. That is a roughly 1% increase of current domestic production. As discussed above we need more refining capacity to replace aging facilities and add capacity to existing wherever possible. To accomplish they had to neuter the EPA and state government resistance. That takes some time. About 20% of domestic refining production is in blue Cali under Newscum. So, who do you you think has been undermining the overall industry there? Yup.

The primary, macro way to clear the restrictive decks to increase capacity and thereby lower pricing at the pumps is through deregulation and declaring a national energy emergency. That cuts the red tape and leftist ability to obstruct. Well, guess what happened on the first day of #47’s term? Yup, refining was included in this EO.

https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/01/declaring-a-national-energy-emergency/

Moving on, if prices of food and household items only stabilize or drop moderately in the short term, what else can we expect? With vehicles as an example, #47 and cabinet already handled the emissions issue that drove up prices by a $1000 + per average vehicle with even more costs to be added to comply in the future with the onerous (or is that odorous?) manufacturer fleet mandate that forced EV on the nation. He also opened the doors to the small, cheap car industry at the same time. You can expect more of the same with appliances, HVAC, furniture and so on. For what it is worth, the mandate away from freon was one of those scams as well.

As a result we can expect big ticket items to stabilize in price where they are and possible drop a little. If that happens, how does the average American who cannot afford them now get by? The answer is Increased income, which is primarily real wage increases plus reduced taxes. The sources for that increase in available household incomes are; the federal income tax bite is much smaller, child tax credits went up, long term interest rates are trending down, the manufacturing sector wage base is strongly increasing in job quantity and compensation, illegals taking jobs and housing is strongly declining, reduced legal immigration taking available jobs is happening and so on.

More good jobs with benefits + smaller labor pool available to work said jobs + much stronger economic activity overall + lower tax bill = Rising wages, personal incomes and greenbacks available for average Americans across all aspects of the economy.

Trojan Horse Issues

#47 and patriots are addressing the employer use of non-citizens at an increasing pace. Deportations, reductions in quotas, and revoking of visas, and raiding and fining offending employers is happening rapidly. So, let’s not make the mistake of believing the lack of fake media attention and patriot updates on the numbers means the deportations, reductions, and revocations have slowed or are not happening. Remember, the enemy does not need to know everything, just stuff that influences a reaction that benefits MAGA in some fashion.

The fake media has long been an important mercenary for the enemy. You will see an example of this going back nearly 250 years ago concerning an amazing founding father that finishes this series at the end of the month.

For examples today, have you noticed how little they talk about Ukraine now? Ukraine no longer commands the attention and money flow they crave. No little blue and yellow flags everywhere including the halls of Congress. The fake news industry helped the uniparty neocons siphon off $350 B of tax payer funds we did not have with Ukraine alone. The spigot turned off and they moved on to the next scam. A similar deemphasis is occurring with COVIDiocy and the jabs. The remake of the CDC and FDA is well underway. They may not be perfect, but they will be much improved. Truth and research is beginning to flow into the public domain more often. For example, say goodbye to the recommended 72 jab childhood vaccination schedule forced on physicians and staff to sell to unwitting families.

The fake news absence has been happening with DOGE media reporting. Their and leftist politician attacks against DOGE have all but died out. They lost the fight against it. SCOTUS ruled and DOGE continued retooling the entire operating system of the federal government in addition to addressing fraud, waste and abuse. It is completing its mission and has inspired some states to incorporate their own versions into their operations. So, the fake media’s leaking sources are easy to draw out as well. Below is an example.

Put out a fake story within the patriot admin, see which azzhat leaker(s) hands it off to the enemy (fake news). If nobody does, leave it laying on a desk where somebody from the enemy can see it when they are in the vicinity. Boom – you get to have some fun at their expense.

As Q said, these people are stupid.

Do you fully grasp what all DOGE is doing (in Trump time) means? The reworked operating system will provide much more legit, real time information instead of the dated, wrong, manipulated BS of the past using far less leftist, make-work deep state bureaucrats. Enter the age of AI and effective government.

Also, no more of SD’s silos. They never existed anyway. Everybody on the Demoncrap side knew what the other agencies and departments were doing because they have been coordinated for decades. The financial side was buttressed by the donkey Dem controlled Congressional Budget Office (CBO) as well as General Accountability Office (GAO). Sundance made up an issue and term that MAGA could grab and run with to attract attention and clicks. Anybody who has worked in federal government or lobbied them knows what I just stated is truth. The nonessential and essential staffers moved between departments and agencies as needs and administrations changed. When 90% of them are Demoncraps there are no needs for silos, just processes and secrets being kept out of the public domain. The latter has always been assured when future employment is at risk if you talk combined with the uniparty GOP’s indifference. You know this is true with many horrible incidents occurring In recent years such as staffer Seth Rich being murdered for not staying silent. He was just a speck on the tip of the iceberg.

What made it appear as silos operationally was the lack of coordination of operating platforms with each other. Again, this was a feature and not a bug. It was an intentional design to create massive opportunities for fraud and corruption. So, ask yourselves who benefitted? Yup – the uniparty and their globalist masters. They already had the real data fed to them directly through a shadow system we are not supposed to know existed.

Surprise! We knew. OSatan taking up residence in DC right after #45 taking office gave it away. We know how it worked because Cankles already did it at home with the kitchen closet computer.

There is now much more efficient processing of inter-agency information, auditable financial dealings and reporting of same, removal of corrupted staff and activities from the system, reductions in workforce, and so on. It is like the federal government now must think and act like a big, successful business would. Which is exactly what they are emulating.

The X post below is a recent example of the fruits of their work. Think about the impact. The media will never discuss because it is not headline grabbling or work to the favor of their pariah owners. Private business would think what has been done as just being normal operating practices. Yet, our federal government did not do these type things for over a century and there were obviously nefarious reasons for it being the way they were based on all of the fraud, waste and abuse that has already been found.

Multiply times hundreds, perhaps thousands of issues such as these throughout government. Another…

By the way, it is interesting that the DOGE.gov website – the bright shiny object – is no longer used. August 13 was the last post. They use X now. So what does that tell you about X? Oh yeah, who owns X? What does that tell you about Elon and #47? The crims have been played and it is glorious.

Keeping government operations disjointed and not “talking” to one another is what criminal communist mafias and deep staters do. It serves their purposes, not We the People. The over taxation, misery, deaths, and destruction are opportunities to gain wealth and power for them.

The same is occurring with the removal of illegals. They are being exited at an increasing pace as DOGE conducts research and interconnected the operating system with other applicable agencies. DOGE has been a very valuable resource in that. They identified aberrations and fraud. ICE, DHS, DOJ, Treasury, and gang handle the evictions and arrests. Look at how many have been removed from the rolls of SNAP in just the 29 states that complied with USDA’s data request. How many more are there in the rolls of the remaining 21 blue states that did not comply whose enrollees will not receive benefits until they do? My hunch is at least three times more. You know the overall total has to be at least 15% of funding was stolen, it is sort of a rule of thumb when the crims are involved.

Less existing illegal human bodies in the nation and no new ones coming in means less ability for Dems to cheat in elections. Which explains this public pronouncement.

https://www.newsday.com/news/nation/election-security-cisa-2026-secretaries-state-midterms-d10354

Forensic analysis has been expanding into the state systems with federal election safety providing the entry point. For cheating to work, human bodies need matched to residencies, social security numbers, citizenship, and census even if mailed in. EO’s and court actions will address to pass muster at the SCOTUS level along with existing cases before the courts. As the illegals disappear the criminals have to use existing citizens who never historically voted to replace. That complicates their efforts and leads to more exposure. One of the key cheat methods is before SCOTUS now. Mail-in voting is going to be addressed. Once it is, Harmeet Dhillon of the DOJ and other patriots will take over addressing the result of the decision.

Redistricting in the states will be finished and the GOP will net more seats in the House as a result. The GOP’s job is to advance strong, electable MAGA candidates in every area where they can win and use the bulk of their funding for that purpose. No MAGA supported candidates floated means the ones that are have uniparty stamped on them. That means a strong ground effort needs to be underway to have the uniparty criminals fearful of the methods they use and how much they cheat. They may throw caution to the wind and go crazy – that is likely as it is their last stand – but with FIB and DOJ retooled with patriots it will cost many of their soldiers prison time and give the basis (STANDING) to overturn election results as applicable. Less are likely to step forward to do the dirty and be prosecuted.

Just an FYI – to have a good indication as to what is happening in every area of emphasis and what to expect, you have to look back to look forward. Always check out what actually happened after the fake media headlines and initial politician driven ruckus to understand the real status of an issue. You know the opposite of what is reported is usually true.

2026 is all lining up for the economy to be humming, employment numbers strong, and inflation low along with with key household item prices stabilized to down by early spring. People with 401-k’s, pensions, IRA’s and other stock related investments – about half of American citizens – are seeing their portfolios jump. Do not miss this regardless of your personal situations. The markets being at record highs leads to people becoming more positive and spending money. Since we have a consumer based economy, when they spend money more jobs are created and incomes increase for everybody while reducing the deficit due to collection of more related tax revenues. That means no needed tax rate increases at the state and local levels should be necessary or even desired in addition to the reduced federal taxes delivered by the BBB. Save some cash for investing if you possibly can. Even a small amount can grow to help your situation over time.

The midterms are the short term target. The primary question will become, again, are you better off today than you were under the Maggot as KK calls him? We know the answer already, we just need to make sure the independent and swing voters get to the polls as well. Add in parading of more of the charged and convicted high profile Dem criminals that has begun. This needs to be an earthquake election that swallows that criminal party whole. That is where every America First MAGA supporter comes in. Vote, work to get others to vote, and work in local districts.

Do Not Miss This

In the big picture, what PDT has been doing is redefining the role of the POTUS and executive branch through the courts and his EO’s back to what the Constitution and law provides. The legislative and judiciary branches have been weaponized against the GOP executive branch. Now when leftist lawfare judges rise against the rule of law, it provides an opportunity to reaffirm in the appeal process and at the SCOTUS level. That is why he probes and pushes the buttons on legal and Constitution issues constantly. There is no such thing as settled law in this country. The Constitution was written without many enforcement and punitive provisions that quite frankly were not anticipated to be needed. Rules, procedures and practices added through the years continued the potential for circumvention.

PDT and patriots are actually reestablishing the role and value of the judicial system and branch in the process as well. With a 90+% win rate on appeals, which has never been achieved by any other POTUS in American history, the rules to the game are being defined in many respects for the first time. There has been renewed attention on the SCOTUS members being Constitutionalists as compared to the leftist/uniparty criminals and hacks that led our country astray in the past.

In the next phase JD and Marco will continue the direction and build on it. They are integrally involved in the entire process. As an accomplished attorney, JD is well versed in Constitutional law in addition to his tech business and military background. Marco knows government inside and out. They both know the King of Kings. So, the rest of the GOP better get on with the program and stop hiding behind rules, procedures and practices.

Multi (regional) polarity of independent nations is the end game for these times. More on that later.

It is a revolution. The Golden Age awaits. Trust Trump.

Francis Lightfoot Lee

Born in 1734 in Westmoreland County, VA on the Stratford Hall tobacco plantation, Francis (Frank) Lightfoot Lee, was the fourth son of the eight children of Thomas and Hannah Ludwell Lee. The Lee family were of English descent and among the first families of the state. His middle name came from the name of his father’s best man in the wedding to Hannah. Young Francis was tutored at home by a Scottish minister for his education.

Lee’s great grandparents emigrated from England in 1639. They became wealthy from trading activities related to furs, tobacco and other goods in the colonies as well as England. They purchased large amounts of land as as a result. The older brothers of Francis participated in the family business and were educated in England as they traveled to and from there with each trading voyage. Francis was too young for the trips and remained home with his tutor, which was a disappointment to him at the time. It got worse, in 1750 both of his parents died while his older brothers were in England. The children inherited everything, which included land, money, slaves, and company stock for land speculation.

Francis inherited an estate in northern VA named Coton. It was located in Loudoun County, so his brothers began calling him Loudoun. He continued to live and study at the Stratford Hall library with his brother and fellow Declaration signer, Richard Henry Lee. They used the period to debate each other on various political and legal issues. By 1758 he had moved on to his Coton estate. He was soon elected to the General Assembly.

In 1766 he signed on the Westmoreland Resolutions that his brother, Richard Henry, drafted that challenged the King’s authority and the Stamp Act. At the time it was considered a seditious act, yet, later served as a basis for the Declaration of Independence. Three years later at the age of 35 he married the love of his life, 16 year old Rebecca (Becky) Tayloe of Mount Airy. The couple built a home in Richmond County where Francis was also elected to the House of Burgesses. It was in that public service role that he became close friends with two of the greats, Patrick Henry and Thomas Jefferson.

Both Francis and Richard Henry joined the state’s Committee of Correspondence in 1773 and joined the state’s Convention a year later. In 1775 he became a member of the Second Continental Congress. He and Richard Henry traveled to Philadelphia and stayed with a sister and brother-in-law there through the build up to the Declaration. Richard Henry was called back to the Virginia Assembly in June before the vote. Francis wrote a letter to keep him informed and expressed concern that the Congressional members were fighting over matters less important than the need to declare independence and be about addressing their enemy.

He signed the Declaration on August 2 and Richard Henry arrived and signed on September 4. They are the only brothers to have signed. Francis participated in the creation of the Articles of Confederation as well and is only one of 16 who signed both documents. During 1777 he did all he could and was instrumental in securing vitally necessary supplies for the military during its darkest hours. He continued to serve in Congress for four years into 1779, before returning to Virginia. He served both in the Senate and House before retiring from public service in 1785.

Francis was known as a well-read man “of gentle reasoning and quiet persuasion” by his peers. While Richard Henry and brother, Arthur, were controversy prone, Francis was considered the opposite. Even Arthur called him “calmness and philosophy itself”. However, his political beliefs and commitments were every bit as radical as those of his brothers. John Adams described Lee as “a man of great reading, well understood, of sound judgment and inflexible perseverance in the cause of his country.”

From constitutionalcenter.org comes this statement:

“The 19th century writer, Mark Twain [Samuel Clemens] wrote of him: “He did no brilliant things, he made no brilliant speeches; but the enduring strength of his participation was manifest, his fearlessness in confronting perilous duties… was patent to all, the purity of his motives was unquestioned, his unpurchasable honor and uprightness were unchallenged.” Perhaps the epitaph offered by Lee’s niece Nancy Shippen put it best: “Thou sweetest of all the Lee race / That ever adorned our shore.”

After retirement into private life he was known for his happy demeanor and as a person who enjoyed helping others. Frank and Becky as they were known in the area, had no children. As a result when they both passed away in January 1797 they left their inheritance to the second son of Richard Henry Ludwell, as he had an interest in politics. Ludwell became an attorney and did successfully enter politics on the state level. The couple were buried in Mount Airy.

Francis Lightfoot Lee was an important, dedicated patriot who gave his full commitment to the cause of independence and his fellow citizens both in public and private life. We are forever grateful for his efforts.

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Be blessed and go make something good happen!

2025.10.14 Daily Thread: TB’s Investment Column Advice – 🇺🇸

Well, not really. I am no day trader or Wolf of Wall Street. I am too lazy to work that hard to make every last penny I could. However, I can share what has worked for me, which is a long term strategy that led to no debt and an early retirement.

As we head into this one, these are the ground rules for TB’s take on this and any other subject. I am not you and you are not me. As always take what I say and apply only after thoughtful consideration of whether it works for you and your situation. My purpose is only to inform for what has worked for me or that I otherwise have legitimately beneficial knowledge to share. If any of this can help you or loved ones in some way(s), my purpose has been fulfilled.

To get to the financial, which is not complex or ground breaking, you need to handle the prerequisites first. Skipping the part that stabilizes your life and gives it meaning circumvents the good that comes from wealth accumulation. If you skip it, you either lose the wealth you do accumulate at some point, or, it becomes your idol or god because you are not grounded in truth.

Intentions

Start with first things first. Live a life of fulfilled intentions. Not just in financial matters – in everything. FAFO’ing through life is not a good way to approach it. You know this.

Per definition, intention is an aim that guides your actions to achieve an objective. You aim yourself as a weapon is aimed at a target. Anything or anybody that gets in the way is a distraction. Sometimes the distraction is good, it can cause you to rethink things. Sometimes the distraction gets in the way of you hitting the target. You need to decide the best course of action with the distractions and react accordingly.

Stay focused on the objective. Once the target is lined up, do not flinch and over think. Pull the trigger to get it done.

Most importantly, to fulfill intentions requires that you have some. Intentions give purpose to life. Do not go through life aimlessly.

It does not matter how old you are or your personal situation to fulfill your intentions.

Understand that God created the way the world was created – and you are not Him. Don’t fall for there is no God, no creator, bullshiz regardless of whether you are religious or not. Accept somebody greater than you created all of this by intention and move on to understanding your role and purpose within your circumstances. That means you really should ask Him, but that is your choice. If your life seems aimless or unproductive, start there.

You live in a country that provides for fulfilled intentions. Be grateful everyday and realize you have been blessed to be in the place you are. You have been given personal liberty secured by the Constitution that was executed within the providence of God as it states. When oppressors come against you, stand firm within your rights as an American citizen and counter their aggressions. Our founders and many patriotic Americans have bled out and died to provide that right. You owe it to them to give it your all and even do likewise if called upon. Do not go down without a fight. Fight, fight, fight!

Financial Freedom Basics

Work until you can retire, if you want to retire. Preferably, make money doing something that you love if possible. Sometimes that is not possible. So, whatever you do, do as unto the Lord. That is scripturally supported. If you do those things you will live within your means.

Do not spend more than you make. Getting the big eye is for kids, do not act like a kid as an adult. It’s dumb.

Compounded interest and returns are your great friends. Seek them. Make sure it is more than inflation and your personal tax burden. The more you make above the inflation rate and tax burden the better. It is doubtful you will achieve that depositing all of your funds in a bank or credit union. That is like floating around in a pool, you will never really get anywhere. I will address this below. There are no sharks in a pool and that makes it more safe and relaxed. It also makes it less productive for your financial gain purposes.

Again, avoid spending more than you make or borrowing excessive sums that cannot be repaid easily. Be risk averse when it comes to borrowing money.

Combine all of that understanding by first building a rainy day fund that is sufficient to pull you out of a loss of job, major household or auto expense, a medical emergency, and so on. Go for a minimum of 6 months income invested into savings. Buck up and have some discipline. If your current income is stretched to the max and you cannot cut any more expenses, find a second job or other legal method to increase income. As an example I know medically disabled people who make nice second incomes from just dog or invalid sitting. Figure it out, it doesn’t have to be a forever thing.

Give to your house of worship and others in need. It is a tenet of the faith that is between you and Him. If you do not believe, giving to others in need brings fulfillment personally.

Financial Freedom Intermediate Steps

Now, it is time to go bigger picture. Gaining knowledge, wisdom and discernment while continuing the basics are the next steps. This will be current and practical.

What has PDT told you (as well as the entire world) and what are big money world leaders doing in response relating to the plans for our economy?

Bonus points for the correct answer.

The answer is investing in America. How many trillions of dollars have you seen committed and already being spent by business and governments around the world within our borders? That informs your big picture. So stop being scared of the big, bad Democrat coyotes howling through their media pups. World business and governmental leaders are investing massive, previously unheard of sums into our nation. They know more than any of us do. Trust your eyes and ears.

Into what industries are they investing the majority of the funds? That would be Artificial Intelligence (AI) and anything that supports it or can directly benefit from its implementation. That should inform your decisioning.

They do not care if you like it or support AI. It is going to be a thing whether you like it or not, whether you participate or not. To Christians, we are to be about life and living it in accordance with what Jesus told us up to His return per scripture. So you should continue to live life accordingly while being wise to not fall into any Satanic traps.

AI is a tool. Use it for your purposes while realizing it can be easily corrupted. That is where wisdom and discernment come in.

A major intention of AI is to build an accurate knowledge base for many applications. This is intended to remove the mistakes and lower productivity coming from humans. So AI is combined with many robotic applications in business, industry, medical fields, defense, education, etc. in addition to intellectual use. That is why some jobs handled by humans will cease in the future. However, how well it does at those things is dependent upon human input. Expect hiccups along the way. Lots of them.

Two Opposing Sides & Lots Of Traitors

Now you see another blatant means for the globalists with depop – to corrupt the intention and twist it to their advantage. So, the two sides are clearly represented. One side reduces world population and uses AI applications to replace human productivity where it can. Sort of like culling the herd to only who is necessary while making sure the remnant do as trained. That is where digital ID and social compliance scoring comes in. They have more for themselves with less inconvenient rebellion that way as they replace God and march on to transhumanism where they believe they will never die. You have heard and read this from numerous developers of it including world leaders. Believe their intention even if you know it is all bullshit.

The other side uses AI to increase productivity, but believes humans are necessary for the continuance of the world and further exploration of the universe. They see life as transitory until death and passing into paradise with a Creator, so they want to leave things better for those that follow along the way. Their use of AI gives benefits to all humanity including financial, medical, educational, occupational, etc. advantages. They believe in doing good and caring for their neighbor.

I think you already know which government, business, industry, political, etc. leaders support which camp. Do not be overly concerned about the details in each, just focus on the big picture. One believes in the scarcity of worldly assets and the other believes in the abundance of worldly assets. The culture that develops from that is death for the scarcity crowd and life for the abundance folks.

That informs your investment decisions. Who is winning and what do they support?

In America you will also know them by their political affiliation with infiltrators that attempt to push things off course. Your role today is to work against our common opponents and invest in America as PDT has arranged.

If you have chosen to follow the money (investment), you know America is going to widen its lead the world in business and industry. Our military will continue to provide the protection we and our allies need for the foreseeable future as they are retrained as war fighters instead of woke nation builders, perverts, and baby sitters. This makes them more cost efficient as well as lethal. That scares the bejeezus out of our enemies. It is unlikely there will be any frontal attacks. However, there will be infiltration attempts, sedition and treason. There will be the Chynas of the world that attempt to stir the pot. Don’t fall for the fear porn it gins up in the media.

Our return as a nation in the form of the secular and religious Great Awakening only provides more support for the Golden Age as we justifiably give all of the credit and glory to the Lord for his provision for us as American citizens, as well as all believers around the world.

As a result we go about our lives and business with intentions that fit our world and kingdom view that we intend to fulfill.

Investments

Few adult American citizens are competent individual investors in the stock and bond markets. So, it would be foolish to do that as an investor of your hard earned money without the knowledge necessary to do so successfully long term.

The good news is you do not have to do it yourself. You can invest through funds with managers that do have the experience and knowledge, that make a living at successfully doing it for large numbers of people and institutions. That simply means to invest into good mutual funds with solid investment companies long term.

Consider using the Morningstar website. They review the performances of mutual funds and provided useful information about each. Start there if you are going to invest larger sums. It started over 40 years ago and does deep research. if you are just starting out or doing it smaller, just look for Morningstar ratings and info associated with mutual funds in which you may be interested. It would be safer for you to look at well known large financial providers such as Schwab or Fidelity. The link below gives a sample of their recommended ten best from Forbes.

https://www.forbes.com/advisor/investing/best-mutual-funds

My first point is to not fall victim to conspiracy theories and purity motives. Sure, you may find the investment choices of some funds to be distasteful if you investigate them. Refrain from investing in them if you feel that way. Check each fund’s prospectus and choose funds that are more what you would approve; just realize you have no control and there are bound to be some slugs, thugs and duds mixed in with the good ones in most funds.

That leads to you choosing your financial weapon(s). Pray about it and think it through.

Knowing the huge amounts of capital being invested into America informs you on how you need to invest long term. The S&P 500 index is comprised of the largest, better performing companies in America. It represents 80% of all of the market capitalization of American public companies. These are the companies that can and are investing into big into AI, all things that support it, all things that benefit from it, and other planned American economic growth drivers relating to energy and power production, tech, automotive, defense, etc. As a result you know you probably need to invest into already successful mutual funds that are largely comprised of the companies in the S&P 500, or by the index itself.

This index has performed at an average of about 10% return since its inception in 1957. Think about all of the things that have hit America hard during that period, yet, the average return has still been a strong 10%. For example, in the past ten years there have been a couple of loss years and far more good return years that has led to an 11% overall return. So you do not freak out if the markets decline for a year or two. You sit tight and wait for the rebound.

Average inflation has been around 3.25% over a 100+ year period in this nation. The goal per the Fed and PDT is 2%, which it has been for several months and was (and less) throughout #45’s term. So deduct your inflation assumption from the 10%. Next up is federal and any state taxes that may be due. Only you know your current tax rate. We have no state income taxes in TN, so our effective Federal tax rate is all that applies. By any measure, you learn that a 10% average return of a mutual fund will accumulate a substantial amount of wealth over time. How much is dependent upon your commitment to making additional deposits to it and refraining from taking funds out of it, which allows your contriutions and returns compound.

That does not mean you ignore the NASDAQ, Russell, or any other index with mutual funds. The participants are different in each one. The listed companies are generally smaller in market capitalization, so they are more subject to overall economic conditions of the economy. In good times they may perform better than the S&P. In stagnant or bad times they may be more susceptible and perform worse. The mutual funds associated with them will also have track records for you to review. They will also benefit from the massive investment into America.

Once you start you should basically forget you have done so. Leave it alone unless there is an emergency. That’s it. If your choice of funds does not perform well against peer funds, you can always move it to a better one. You now know a relatively safe path to wealth accumulation. You just have to be willing to pursue it and fulfill the intention to take advantage of the opportunity.

For those who are still a bit queasy, the industry has an insurance fund that covers potential individual investor loss if a fund provider goes bankrupt. Its link is below.

https://www.sipc.org/for-investors/what-sipc-protects

The Future

OK, now that you have your rainy day fund, you are living within your means, you have a low debt load, you are contributing to any 401-k retirement plan you may have at work, and you are now investing for wealth in the stock and/or bond market through at least one good mutual fund; it is time to talk about the future and how it could all go in America for you as well as your children and grandchildren.

Below is a link that is a MUST WATCH (8:41 long) interview by Larry Kudlow with Vivek Ramaswamy. Both are PDT allies and very knowledgable about all of this. Vivek will be Ohio’s elected governor after their next election. Kudlow served in an economic advisor role in #45’s term. They are in the inner circle. They both know how government, politics, business, industry and foreign investment works. They are MAGA.

https://www.foxbusiness.com/video/6380305244112

There is much to unpack there. I hope you picked up on it because those two know what is coming. Ambitious expectations. All within reach of those who prepare accordingly.

It has been my expectation that we will finally see an eventual successful push to have Social Security funds invested safely into the capital markets, which has been prohibited. Think about it, had a significant portion of Social Security funds been safely invested into just the S&P 500 index, a great deal more funds would have been made available and the SS fund would now be self sustaining after many years of 10% compounded returns. Instead, the talk every year is about its future solvency while they use these dedicated funds to make the budget deficit appear smaller than it actually has been. Who has used that fear porn talk to fuel voter turn out for their candidates through the decades? Who benefits the most by keeping it and Medicare in a flux at all times?

The American public has been scammed far more than they ever realized. Collectively we had the power to end it all along. We just needed to become a movement of like minded patriots who held the politicians to account while keeping elections clean. The politicians have known and participated in the scams for many years. They kept selling the public on the lack of safety in investing public funds in capital markets. The same markets that the entire country uses to fuel its capitalistic economy. Ironic, huh? It has been infuriating to those of us who have seen the deception and corruption in plain sight for decades.

If you ask yourself why the answer is obvious. If the public were made aware they would have become outraged when the politicians intentionally overspent the budget or caused bubbles in the stock market or debt markets (2008 mortgage collapse) that caused booms and busts. The politicians knew these activities caused losses in the investment returns of the stock market that would endanger Social Security’s viability. If we had found out about their scamming it would mean the uniparty’s forever wars and depopulation efforts would have to come to an end. Using their media lapdogs they knew they could always sell the less informed sheeple about a potential shortfall in the SS and medicare funds in the future while at the same time approving increases in withholding rate, moving back the age to full retirement, restricting the amounts people could earn before being taxed, etc. That put even more money at their disposal to steal and misappropriate.

I will not spend much time discussing the truth that Jeff Childers of C&C recently brought about PDT and Bessent revaluing America’s gold reserves to more current market values. That impact alone would send the markets into the stratosphere. For once it would be nice if marked to market for something meant that gold could go back to being the reserve that supported the dollar to help it work for the common man’s benefit. Imagine the benefits to the retirement plans of We the People.

The answer for national solvency that included well funded retirements for all Americans has been sitting there all along. There was no political will power or citizen understanding to accomplish it.

Now there is.

Take Control

Once you identify how you want to invest, know that there are literally hundreds of funds that have no loads. Spend some time looking at reviews, ratings of funds, investment emphasis, fund expenses, 10 year returns and so on. The safety is in the S&P with the historically largest upside for growth in the NASDAQ index. Less risk with S&P, more risk with NASDAQ. More stable, proven acceptable returns in the S&P. More upside for returns with the NASDAQ.

Study it, work on it, budget for it and just do it. As wealth accumulates you may choose to move funds into crypto, precious metals, real estate and so on to diversify and reduce risk if you desire. It is never too early or too late to take the plunge. Actually, it can be good fun. For example, giving to children under aged 18-25 (depends on state law) is made easy with the Uniform Gift to Minors Act account. You can remain custodian until they hit the age limit and if you have taught them how investment works through the years they may choose to keep it invested and become millionaires later in life from a relatively modest investment in their youth. Linked below is an IRS update on the effect of the tax law changes on minors.

https://www.irs.com/en/do-minors-have-to-pay-taxes

You can also set up your personal account as a regular investment, traditional IRA or Roth IRA depending on your needs and situation.

Use the calculator below to play with the investments, rates, years, returns, etc.

https://www.gigacalculator.com/calculators/compound-interest-calculator.php

Conclusion

It is time to invest in America. Why let this golden age go by with nothing to show for it? If you have hit your senior years like us, beyond the additional personal income it provides it gives you an investment outlet while you are alive that will survive and be of benefit to whoever or whatever you designate when you pass.

For us that represents a fulfilled intention.

Please remember Wolf’s rules for our community. In general that means to be respectful to each other and to pull no shenanigans that your mom might find offensive or otherwise cause jail time. That said, free speech is honored here.

Be blessed and go make something good happen!

2025.10.07 Daily Thread: Ground Report

As our family’s very excellent beach adventure nears that we call our Fall Frolic, I felt it was time to give an updated Ground Report from this neck of the woods since it is in a tourism mecca for the eastern US. Literally millions of “leafers” will be on the prowl into this region to enjoy the beautiful colors and pleasant conditions of hillbilly country in Autumn.

They will be faced with frequent traffic issues in the form of bottlenecks on the main interstates and highways. I expect some “off the beaten path” travels and adventures, which will be of economic benefit to some smaller communities in the area. I will address a few of the primary road issues later in this report.

But first…

Bud

Thank you very much for your prayers and concerns for Bud. I am very happy to report his surgery went as well as we all hoped. Bud’s dad called me after he made it back to his room. Doc #2 did exactly what he said needed to be done and would do. He did a resection of 10″ of the diseased/dead part of his colon, closed, and sent him to recovery. The procedure took less than an hour. He was out of recovery three hours later with a normal meal, well, as much as hospital food can be normal, waiting for him in his room. He was told he could eat whatever food he wanted that did not cause him discomfort. He will be in the hospital for a couple more days and released if it all goes as expected. He will have a no heavy lifting restriction for three months.

The surgery was identical to my father’s from sixty years ago. The result is similar as well. We are all encouraged by the results and God’s provision. He dodged a bullet with idgit Doc #1. The lesson being always to pray first and then get a second opinion if you have any doubts whatsoever with anything medical.

Chemtrails Again In The News

Below there is a link with MTG coming off the top rope on chemtrails. Like or dislike her, the awareness she is bringing to the issue is a very good thing. I am still amazed at the people who will accept and agree that the jabs turned out to be a bad thing for humanity since they have been obviously injuring and killing people worldwide. But mention this subject and they go into denial and think it is BS or another annoying conspiracy theory even with the government itself admitting that it has been done for over 80 years.

It’s just another tool in the belt of the globalist criminals with depop and creating chaos for business opportunities. Your injury or death means nothing short of a celebration to them.

https://www.infowars.com/posts/mtg-blasts-chemtrails-we-never-voted-to-have-chemicals-sprayed-into-our-skies

Anecdotal observations for our region have been that weather patterns are returning to the 1980’s and early 1990’s patterns in the eastern part of the state, which means normal to you flatlanders. Call it a regular old climate cycle. Precipitation has been historically normal without many extremes of deluges or severe droughts that had become common for the past 30 years. Temps have dropped as a trend overall. Local insect population has declined from its unprecedented annoyance level of the past several decades and is now more typical of this mountainous area. Wildlife remains abundant. One other pleasantry has been that we enjoyed cool nights in the 50’s for nearly two weeks in mid-late August before warming up moderately into September. That has not happened since the late 1980’s. We have returned to “mild” and pleasant conditions for which this area was formerly noted, along with the brilliant blue, non-chem trailed skies

All of that says the fall colors could be spectacular in the region unless the remaining government criminal embeds pull off more wildfires.

It also means the potential for some major snowfall events, which have not been seen around here for a long time. The old farmers’ weather predictions related to fogs in August bringing snow in winter will be scary this year if proven true. It was very foggy in the mornings for over half of the month of August, as in so dense you could not see more than 20 feet in front of you type foggy at times. Will see how it goes. I am thankful for my tri-fuel generator just in case. In the 1980’s and early 1990’s we had some dandy winter storms that paralyzed the area.

Effects of Helene

Less than two weeks ago there were local news reports about Helene’s on-going effects that blew many of us away. Of course the national fake news would never report it so I am doing so here. There was a feature story from the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) that controls the waterways and lakes in our region. Their leadership and engineers discussed openly on local newscasts that if they had not opened the dams more and lowered the water levels of the lakes a few weeks before Helene hit, there would have been two or three dam failures in east TN as the volume from the storm increased water levels in those affected lakes by 21 feet. Their assessment was that both Knoxville, Chattanooga and everything within the vicinity would have been been flooded. More than 2 million people would have likely had their lives signficantly impacted. The DOD, DOE and Oak Ridge National Lab reservation would also have been affected as it sits along the Clinch River basin that is in this discussed TVA controlled flood zone. Same with the University of Tennessee main campus that is located on the Tennessee River in downtown Knoxville.

Once again by the providence of God, a regional calamity was avoided by the wise acts of unseen engineers, who had no idea an event was coming of Helene’s magnitude in just a few weeks. They believed that precipitation in the weeks prior to Helene was above normal and raising lake levels more than they deemed appropriate and safe, so they took action sooner than normal. They saved lives and untold misery.

All I can say is that it was a good thing residents around here did not know or there would have an untold amount of panic and chaos.

Nah, nothing to see here. Cloud seeding and geoengineering are BS. Receiving 1.5-2.5 feet of precipitation in 48 hours on top of a mountain range from a hurricane that made landfall hundreds of miles away that was initially going in the opposite direction, a path that all previous hurricanes have taken, would not cause that. Would it?

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As things stand now in east TN, these TVA operated lakes and waterways are in recovery. We were very fortunate the dams did not fail during the event. As it was, massive flooding of area rivers and tributaries contributed to towns flooding, death, property damage, and extended despair. Lake clean up efforts will pick back up this fall since water levels were lowered by TVA as they are supposed to do every year. They made sure they informed the public it had been done this time. As Mother Nature cleans herself, recreational activities in the lakes will also increase. As an example, due to the nastiness of the water quality the many professional bass fishing tournaments typically held in the region post Helene were cancelled or relocated. I am pleased to report that they have resumed for the fall/winter schedule beginning in late September. That is a very good sign water quality conditions and natural habitats are improving.

Area Roads/Bridges

Now on to the road situation. Most of us never really think about all of the bridges we cross each day. In the affected area in TN alone there were 47 bridges destroyed. Yup. Due to the great efforts of our state’s DOT and related contractors, 29 have been rebuilt a year later. This includes the bridges wiped out along I-26 in the most affected Unicoi County area, a massive rebuild. Most of the contractors worked straight through the coldest parts of winter to get things done. They are unsung heroes.

Which leads to the most important damaged section of interstate road in the region; eleven miles of I-40 through the gorge at the state lines of NC and TN. Earlier in the spring the contractor was able to get two lane traffic going along this stretch. Large tractor trailer rigs had to reroute such that only smaller rigs are permitted on the road as it was on I-26 for a year.

The good news is that traffic through the area generally moves, albeit more slowly, such that delays are usually only around 30 minutes or so unless you are on it during peak periods. The other good news is that they are rebuilding in the manner they would if it was a dam. They are going 30′ down into the bedrock along the river and building a dam like structure for the entire eleven miles. Rock slides will no longer cause extended shut downs for clean up and repairs and the adjacent river will no longer wash out the road bed. The various governmental entities got together and agreed to build the best it can be and the funding is appropriated. This is encouraging because it is a major national interstate that cross country truckers and tourists are dependent upon.

The bad news is that it will take three years to complete. Yup – 2028. Oh well, at least the construction is well underway.

Total cost of project will be $1.36 billion for eleven miles of road rebuilding. Ouch.

Thankfully, FL has joined us in the chemtrails/geoengineering ban. That is a big deal. Hopefully, other Atlantic/Gulf bordering states will follow suit soon.

Regional Economy

The negative effects of Helene and its destruction of roads and bridges messed with tourism in the affected area. That would seem pretty obvious.

Not according to the local fake news media. They keep telling us that they are certain it is Trump’s tariffs causing it. Yes, despite TN’s 3.6 unemployment rate and a national CPI of 2%, the economy is slowing they say and people are having to stretch their budgets. Of course, people always have to stretch their budgets even in the best of times. That is just a tired old expression used by idgits in media.

The propaganda continues. The interesting thing to me is they continue to say leftist garbage in a deep red area while it is painfully obvious they have a dwindling number of advertisers to pay for those young, inexperienced (cheap) fakebook style news reporters.

In fact, the local Fox affiliate no longer has its own news staff. They contract the local NBC affiliate to use their news staff to provide it. That Fox affiliate is just hanging on by a thread.

In reality our tourism numbers through July revealed a 6% downturn year to date, although more recent visitation is surging unbelievably strong. The following photo was not taken in the middle of tourism season in July. This was from this past Saturday in October and an on-going thing for the past couple of weeks.

SIL was called in after his night shift later that day to assist with thousands of unruly young people who had taken over the roads throughout the county. So, authorities cancelled the second day of their event in response. Organizers have been told they are no longer welcome here. The recently hired new City Manager is much more safety oriented than the previous good ole boy who was afraid to step on anybody’s toes.

https://seviervilletn.org/index.php/public-information/news/5357-city-of-sevierville-statement-on-cancellation-of-slammedenuff-sunday-october-5-show.html

Some of the car shows and rod runs are getting out of hand, like this one did. It will no longer be tolerated throughout the area. Some residents could not leave or return to their neighborhoods due to the effects that day. They let their elected officials know they will take it into their own hands if it happens again. They put the heat on the mayors and the results were good.

Tourism will all end up strong on the year as it usually does. It has helped from a labor point of view with ICE cleaning things up. There are less illegals for employers to hire in restaurants, cleaning, lawn services and construction. You know, the ones the employers frequently pay cash under the table or otherwise pay for contractor services; who pay cash and provide housing free of charge under the table to their illegal employees. I know that probably shocks some readers. Not. Deporting them helps the rental housing market crunch for the citizens moving here for the many jobs that are available.

It is happening in the SC lowcountry as well. Per friends and news reports, ICE has been busy picking up illegal workers who had, yup, fake social security numbers and no visas. They were working in local businesses such as landscaping/nursery companies, construction, restaurants and such. Buh-bye, amigos. Their families are shown the door and head out with their departures. The businesses that hired them are then investigated and many are fined. They are monitored closely after that.

Expect voting turn out and results to change. Oh well…

Most know that many employers are a major reason we have many illegals in this country. The remaining illegals in our area have been left some time to self deport before being dealt with when ICE has more assets available. That appears to be soon as a large influx of ICE officers arrived two weeks ago. Employers have been placed on notice that they are aware of some who are still employed and residing in the area. I expect many to head out over the next 60 days. By exiting voluntarily they now know they can probably reenter legally with worker visas at some point. However, at that point the employers can no longer hire and pay them under the table, so there will be less of them.

The short lived tourism downturn was primarily due to much road construction during the peak tourism season even in areas that were not affected by Helene. This area is at the crossroads of two of the most traveled and far reaching interstates in America; I-75 north and south and I-40 east and west. I-81 also feeds into it from north and east. Both 40 and 75 have major road rebuilding and bridge replacement projects going on within an hour of the subject area that have made traveling a nightmare at times. Some of it had nothing to do with Helene, it was just age and condition related. The 75 rebuild/repaving project is nearing completion.

I also hate to tell Dolly she pushed the pricing envelope too far, but Dolly, you pushed the pricing envelope too far. That has not helped things. Many local folks can no longer afford the annual passes. That has not stopped the park from adding at least one major amusement ride to the park each year and this off season is no exception.

https://www.dollywood.com/themepark/rides/nightflight-expedition/

Things around here should grow in a big way in 2026. Conditions have not deterred many new attractions and businesses from going under construction throughout the area. Expansion is rapid in both commercial and residential sectors regionally. Housing inventory has improved. It is still tighter than normal, but going the right direction without an uptick in prices. If anything the prices have drifted down a bit with the increased inventory.

The industrial, educational and governmental sectors remain stable. Industrial will jump forward when the licensed nuclear power plant for DOD and private businesses in the Oak Ridge area is completed down the road. This new plant will be located at the site of a former small coal fired TVA power plant that was taken off line and removed recently.

Churches

Talk about a resurgence. My goodness, so many churches are growing rapidly. Baptist, Global Methodist and non-denominational are leading the charge. The “progressive” churches are declining steadily, but not anywhere enough to offset the growth in the others. Catholic churches have remained stable.

Young people were returning to church around here even before Charlie’s death, which mirrors a nationwide trend. That is a very good thing. As the drug culture is beaten back, I expect more of the same. Trans is not much of a thing in our neck of the woods, nor are pedos and perverts accepted in any way. Only the white liberal women will support any of them around here, which means the other 90+% of our population will not tolerate any of it.

Charlie Kirk’s death had an impact here as it has nationwide. People are still talking about what happened. People who would have never believed the truth about our current situation as a nation, do now. TPUSA chapters are booming.

Schools

A funny thing happened when ICE made its appearance. Children of illegals began disappearing as well. All of sudden there were many vacant desks in all of the classrooms this fall as school started. When added to the rapid expansion of homeschooling and 20 K of state students receiving financial assistance to attend private schools via the state’s school choice program, well, the times they are a’changing. All that led to some significant teacher, tutor and assistant layoffs. Which led to the state teacher association (non-union – right to work state) to becoming quieter and more cooperative with state authorities and administrators. It also reduced facility expansion plans in many school districts, which takes more tax burden off local tax paying residents.

Imagine that. The next thing the officials will be telling us is that the state’s comprehensive test scores have significantly improved.

It’s science.

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Medical Care

Another funny thing happened when ICE made its appearance; medical offices and hospitals are providing easier access to citizens. Wait times in emergency rooms have declined. Access to physicians is met with, “What time works for you that day?” and “If you need to be seen today I can work you in at 3 PM.” type responses. Lobbies are empty to having small numbers with short wait times to be seen. It is as if 1990 has returned to our area.

Food/Fuel Pricing

Overall food prices are down significantly everywhere. There is no denying that truth any more. Fuel prices have started slowly trending down. In our area it takes tourism to decline into the off season to see substantial declines of fuel prices. But the trend is down.

Conclusion

I could rattle on, but that is enough to give a good indication for where we are. I hope some of you will do likewise and talk about your areas so the rest of us can learn more about what is going on in this great country of ours.

Please remember Wolf’s rules for our community. In general that means to be respectful to each other and to pull no shenanigans that your mom might find offensive or otherwise cause jail time. That said, free speech is honored here.

Be blessed and go make something good happen!

2025.08.12 Daily Thread – American Stories: Trust Trump…And Big Beautiful Tariffs

As our Kal continues to accurately say and which has become a code statement on here, “Trust Trump”. Today’s opener is dedicated to the economic reasons of why we should do that. We will be back next week to resume the Declaration signers.

Many of you may be like me. I only trust the Lord completely, then wifey, and down the line. The first two have earned my complete trust; I go down with the ship with them. As for the topic of trusting Trump, observations and experience have taught me that he is outstanding and fully trustworthy in many specific areas. None of us are perfect and everybody will have their own opinions on any weaknesses President Trump has demonstrated he has in the past. This latter point is not the purpose of this opener. This is about how we finally have a POTUS who is executing a plan that will take the rest of the world off our backs.

My first piece of advice is to ignore anything the main stream pundits say as well as many politicians who are stuck in the past. There is no modern day reference on which to base their antiquated analysis that will adequately explain what is happening. Which is exactly why they are astounded they are so wrong and POTUS Trump has been so right about his economic plans including the use of tariffs. President Trump has not only beat them at the game, he changed the rules to it without them grasping he was doing it. The following article summarizes it well.

https://www.breitbart.com/economy/2025/08/05/breitbart-business-digest-why-trump-won-the-trade-war-before-the-first-shot-was-fired

In my opinion we should Trust Trump in many areas in addition to economic matters. There is also his leadership with the illegals invasion, strategic military actions, world peace, law and order, real estate usage, natural resources, world leadership, jobs, education, political endorsements… well, most things relating to being POTUS of the greatest country on earth.

Brave New Economic World

We can see that the pundits and pseudo economists proved they did not know didly about what they were opining about. But Diddley knows,

The Alpha is back in charge in America. You know it is true. 😀

As you can see there is a major reason why The Lion said “tariffs” may be his favorite word. By the time this opener posts, he will have negotiated nearly $20 trillion of investment commitments into America. The results from it all will be incredible. With it he is authorizing and EPA is fast tracking approval of electrical power plant generation on site of the projects that need it that are built and owned by the investing company. Do you fully realize what that does? It means power generation for many manufacturing companies will gravitate to being off the primary national electricity grid not only with new plants of new investments, but also with existing large industrial consumers of power that will undoubtedly be permitted to do likewise. In addition these new generators of power will be able to sell excess power to other customers and the existing grid’s suppliers. All of it makes the grid safer in the event of attack or natural disaster. This innovative approach will spread worldwide and create another major industry for American interests. The very methods being used will stabilize energy costs and diversify the sources of fuel that are utilized. All of which America has ample supply and access.

Next, add in the opening of federally controlled lands for fuels and minerals production. Then add in all the suppliers, manufacturing support, distribution, and service companies who will be integral to the new manufacturing and utility operations. Then, add in the housing, schools, retail, professionals, etc. needed to support the communities whose populations will be affected by this growth.

Mind blown…

To better understand and for the uninitiated into the world of macro economics and finance – what PDT and supporters are doing with tariffs and trade deals is world defining change. The trade efforts are bringing peace to many contested parts of the world. Paradigm shift does not even come close to describing it. He is having fun like a kid in a candy store doing it.

There is no way to turn this economic ship of positive change around and head back to port; it has irreversibly sailed for the brave new world. The trillions are coming to our home to roost. When the Euros bent the knee and the deal was announced, the death rattle sounded for the future of the existing operations of the cabal. To be sure they will morph into something else that operates on the fringe. But they no longer hold the cards.

To use TradeBait vernacular – PDT got other people to invest their and other people’s money into America to the ultimate benefit of We the People. They pay us for the privilege of doing business with us while hiring and training us for the related highly compensated jobs. The numbers made better sense to do that than to pay the higher tariffs PDT imposed. Yet, they are still paying some level of tariffs as well as taxes along with some investing cash into the Trump/Bessent controlled version of a public investment fund like Trump’s buddies use in SA.

Meanwhile, his handpicked cabinet related to national security is running off or deporting the Dem’s illegal, under the table slave labor and traffickers who have undercut wages, jobs, elections, and lives of We the People. Next on the agenda is to go hard on the cartels and take them out before they even smell our borders.

Cool.

What The Founders Thought

However, much of the economic might being exerted is not a new concept. It has been developed and staged over the past 250 years to be rolled out when ready and as needed. Again, here is the archived letter from Alexander Hamilton to Robert Morris that I posted in American Stories.- Part 21 a couple of weeks ago.

https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Hamilton/01-02-02-1167

Many know that Hamilton was our original “tariffs” guru. Fewer understand the depth of what those two genius founders understood of the interrelating factors. If you want to know more about the tariffs subject, Alexander Hamilton’s official activities, and the politics at that time; please take time to read the linked informative analysis.

https://www.nber.org/system/files/working_papers/w9943/w9943.pdf

Just like in those days, once again we find ourselves in a similar position today. This time around PDT has the majority support of Congress and the authority as POTUS that Hamilton did not fully have.

What was already known and then expanded upon by our founding fathers has been noted, researched, and chronicled over all of the years that followed; particularly in the areas of economics, military, and the law. A base of economic knowledge relating to worldwide activities has been built. Economic strategies have been developed for dealing with a myriad of situations, conditions, nations, and leaders.

President Trump, applicable cabinet, and economists have studied it all and are using the most current methods and technology in coordination with the best and brightest America has to offer. Then his team negotiates trade deals with the best sharks in the world handling it from our side while he acts in the closer role. Nobody does it better than us because our guys and gals think outside of the box and are always well prepared. What is different is the peace deals he negotiates between former enemies frequently have trade deals attached to America and our interests. So, America wins on trade with both parties as they learn to be friends instead of enemies without the deep state creating mischief and pitting them against each other. That takes them out of the cabal’s clutches and adds more valuable information and data in addition to the trade.

The historical downside has always been that nobody ignores the advantages created more than us as well. We get fat, happy and lazy; then fall asleep behind the wheel. Sometimes it happens intentionally due to political and business corruption. As a result we know what our kryptonite has been.

Donald J. Trump has got this. The America First MAGA movement, the white hats, and many other nations in the world now have his back. Most importantly God spared President Trump’s life to be His servant for a time such as this. The Donald himself knows that to be true and openly states it. We have a deep, growing bench of America First MAGA leaders and supporters in important roles. There is zero doubt in my mind that the Hillbilly Middie can take it to the next level when #47 is done. Even lil Marco has proven his commitment and done an exceptional job at State.

Current Situation

As Americans we have been enticed to buy lower cost stuff because the Chi-coms do not care about human rights and 401-k plans. We are a nation conditioned to consuming mass quantities of products of all types. However, the purchases perpetuate their scheme and actual power. They use controlled and slave labor to produce the stuff at lower costs. International business conglomerates design products and use the Chi-coms to produce them at those lower costs, then resell to the consumers worldwide who fall for the fake promotions, sponsored media reports, and ads. Add in the politicians that the people elect who believe it is good business in their states to establish relations with the godless communists and offer special deals using tax payer money for locating businesses to their states; for personal gain of course. I

n essence the international corporate piranha that use Chyna and other totalitarian regimes operate irrespective of nations. Their sole goals are to survive, provide enough products the customers want, make good profits, and grow even more tentacles by whatever means necessary.

That has been the picture in America for decades pre-Donald J. Trump as #45 and #47. That is what is changing so dramatically. As an example, some reading this may still pay or remember paying a cover charge at a club or entertainment venue. The charge went to covering the costs of the entertainment. The venue had something of value you wanted to see, so you paid to get in and then paid some more for the food and libations. That is what President Trump and team are doing with other nations and corporate conglomerates. There is a charge for doing business here because we have something of great value they want – capable workers, more than adequate natural resources and infrastructure, quality products/services, and many paying customers. They can choose to pay a larger cover charge with the tariffs to access our markets, or, they can pay a smaller one or even none under stated conditions along with providing financial and manufacturing investment into America. Most are opting for the latter. They know their investments are safe here and over time their costs will be lower as America leads from the front with AI and technology. With the lower taxes locked in long term from the BBB and a lower cost of energy that reduces production as well as transportation costs – foreign investors are jumping at the opportunity provided them.

So naysayers have to ask themselves; what do these very intelligent, wealthy, and established leaders from around the world know that entices them to do what PDT is dictating, that they do not know?

The cost to produce those products will be controlled in America because for the first time in a very long time the tariffs are leveling the playing field and American leadership is reducing the costs and red tape to corporations to invest big and do business here. Distribution costs will be lower than shipping here from other parts of the world. Our officials are also providing the things that are critically necessary relating to ample access to electricity, water, land, transportation, a competent workforce with training support, reduced regulatory requirements and so on. As we assert ourselves in the domestic energy sector, production costs drop in relation to revenues received. This leads to greater profits and rising stock valuations.

Since robotics and AI are going to drive modern production lines, there is a reduced need for massive numbers of employees that would necessitate an aggressive worker visa program for the purpose. American citizens win as a result.

All of it leads to a much larger, financially stronger middle class in this country. America wins big time when that happens.

Conclusion

To get to the roots of who has been behind the grand scheme of the soon vanquished cabal, please read the works of our Gail Combs. Just know that anytime a politician has ever wanted to attract investment or business relations with the Chi-coms, they are openly stating whose team they are on and it is not America First MAGA.

I have a comment to make to each and every single one of those azzhats.

Game over, bitches. You gotta pay to play now.

Going forward, critical thinking and strategic actions will be rewarded. If you were duped or were beat down and just did not care any more with the past long running fake economy, this is your shot at redemption. All you have to do is communicate support for America First MAGA to folks. Let them know that you appreciate what is being done by President Trump and supporters. If you see something sinister relating to election integrity or with illegals, say something to authorities.

That’s it.

Then invest your work ethic and assets into MAGA. Celebrate each day that we are a SAFE nation that is no longer being taken advantage of and used by the rest of the world. When you no longer have to pay income taxes in the future and see the increased wealth in your retirement plans and investments it will become even more personal and appreciated. That day is coming…

Please remember Wolf’s rules for our community. In general that means to be respectful to each other and to pull no shenanigans that your mom might find offensive or otherwise cause jail time. That said, free speech is honored here.

Be blessed and go make something good happen!

2025.07.22 Daily Thread – American Stories: When in the Course of human events – Part 21

We continue our review of Pennsylvania’s signers of the Declaration of Independence. First, let’s ask a couple of questions like which would be the better city to be called the “cradle of liberty” – Boston or Philadelphia?

A better question is what the heck happened to Philadelphia over the nearly 250 years since that point? The “city of brotherly love” has been anything but that for a very long time. However, in the development of our nation leading up to and immediately after the Revolutionary War, it really could be considered a cradle of liberty as well as the city of brotherly love. However, that is not the focus of this section.

To lead off today’s part I am giving my top five things I find interesting about Philly in no certain order.

Obviously in a series like this one we go first with Philly’s iconic symbol for freedom – the Liberty Bell.

The following link gives the history,

https://www.ushistory.org/LibertyBell/index.html

Second, there another famous, important center and museum; the National Constitution Center.

The Declaration and Constitution are why we are here in this great country. The center is complete with a theater that shows Freedom Rising, life size statues of its signers, all sorts of multimedia exhibits as well as period artifacts. Cool place. Below is info about the center,

https://constitutioncenter.org

Third we have the home of famous trans swimmer, Lia Thomas. The University of Pennsylvania of Ivy League fame had origins as the College of Philadelphia during the incubation of the Independence movement as we know from past stories about other signers. Its founder and first president was B. Franklin, Printer. B had a new building completed for the Philadelphia Academy, the precursor school that eventually became Penn. He also put it to use for evangelical preacher George Whitefield to conduct revivals, focusing on the young people and students in the area.

Now, it is known internationally for encouraging women sports to be infested with sexual deviants and perverts. In the attempt they had their azzes handed to them by POTUS Trump; one of the school’s most famous alums as a 1968 graduate of their Wharton School with a B. S. in Economics, along with other members of his immediate family. Going woke has consequences. The patriot founding fathers that attended the school are probably trying to dig out of their graves and handle the restoration of Penn the same way they handled the Brits.

Could not resist using the mug shot.

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Fourth, we watch the most iconic modern day Philly scene ever!

For what it is worth, the building in the background is the Philadelphia Museum of Art. Below is a good primer if you ever decide to visit.

https://www.thegeographicalcure.com/post/guide-to-the-philadelphia-museum-of-art

Finally, the most important culinary gift Philly has given to America is shown below.

B approves…

Enough with the preliminaries, it is on with the show. We focus on one of the “big dogs” (like B) of the patriot founding fathers.

Robert Morris

We need to spend some time digging into the life of the founding father who is referenced as the “Financier of the American Revolution”, Robert Morris. He is one of the few who signed the Declaration, Articles of Confederation, and the Constitution. However, this story will be like a roller coaster ride at times and I am only hitting some of the primary information and events. Readers may want to look at any number of articles on the web that provide more detail as he was involved in so many activities that it would take too long to summarize them all here.

Morris was born in 1734 and raised for his first thirteen years in Liverpool, England. He was the child of Robert Morris, Sr. and mother, Elizabeth. Elizabeth died when he was two years old. He was raised by his maternal grandmother and his father immigrated to America in 1738 to work as a tobacco sales agent. At age fourteen, young Robert left to join his father in America in Oxford, MD. Morris, Sr. became very successful and was the author of a tobacco inspection law to reduce fraud that passed against strong opposition. He was known to be the first to keep his accounts in money as compared to the usual gallons, pounds, etc.

Upon young Morris’ arrival in 1748, he was tutored for a year by local minister, William Gordon. He soon left to live with a friend of his father’s in Philadelphia where he apprenticed in the merchant shipping business of wealthy Charles Willing as a clerk. When his father died in 1750, he was alone with no family in America at the age of sixteen. The death of his father was bizarre as described below from the Descendants site:

“In 1750 Robert Morris, Sr. gave a dinner party on board one of the ships of the company. As he left the ship in a small boat, a farewell salute was fired from the ship and wadding from the shot burst through the side of the boat and severely injured him. As a result of the accident, he died of blood poisoning on July 12, 1750.

Young Robert continued his work there and was promoted up the ranks until becoming a full partner in 1757 with Charles Willing’s son, Thomas. Through the years Morris became wealthy and one of the most respected citizens in Philly. In 1769 at age 35 he married 20 year old Mary White, the daughter of a wealthy lawyer and land owner. They soon had the first of seven children together, which included future Congressman Thomas Morris. They worshipped at Anglican Christ Church in Philly with Benjamin Franklin. However, that did not prevent Robert from fathering a daughter, Polly, out of wedlock in 1763. However, he provided for her well into adulthood as he did a young son of his father’s, a half brother.

He served with Benjamin Franklin in the Pennsylvania State Assembly in 1775. He was then chosen to be a representative to the Continental Congress and as a member in the Secret Committee, which was assigned to procure weapons and munitions. He also served on the Committee of Secret Correspondence, which attempted to secure alliances with foreign nations. His shipping company was used frequently by the Congress. It is interesting to note that Morris was not in favor of independence until forced to making a decision AFTER its approval to sign the document. He did not vote at all. He feared the result may be anarchy and preferred reconciliation with Great Britain if they would back down from their oppressive tax acts. After Declaration approval he chose to sign and from that point on gave all of his support to the cause for independence.

He left public service in 1779 after accusations of misconduct only to return at the request of Congress to be the nation’s Superintendent of Finance, a role he held from 1781 to 1784. After the non-founded accusations, he had two demands that needed to be met for him to return and take the role. The first was he was to be given unilateral authority to dismiss any treasury employee. The second was he would be able to maintain his merchant relationships while in service to the country. His value was affirmed when Congress agreed to both conditions. In the same time frame he was made Agent of Marine, which gave him control of the Continental Navy.

He then set sights on doing what needed to be done to improve the finances of the developing nation that was hamstrung by debts of war. He informed Washington that he would do all he could to make sure the funding was available. His optimism was met by reluctant state governments. He was able to get all but Rhode Island to agree to taxation. Under the rules of the Articles of Confederation he needed all states to agree to his request, so the effort died.

As a result he focused his efforts on creating a national bank to help address the lack of funds. He was able to get Congress to agree in 1781 and he opened it in 1782. It was a privately owned bank, funded by subscribers, and regulated by investors. It provided a means to use the invested capital to improve access to funding government debt. He sought a national mint for a central currency, but that was postponed by Congress.

It was Robert Morris who recommended to Washington that Alexander Hamilton take the role over the treasury when he was ready to leave. It was Hamilton who went on to establish the national bank and mint that Morris promoted years before. The respect between the two was awesome, but even that was not more than the incredible intelligence and analytical abilities with regards to the Treasury and the situation with the young nation. Below is a letter written from Hamilton to Morris in 1781. It is long, detailed, and covers a myriad of subjects that interrelate with the Treasury role from the period. If you really want to understand the depth of intelligence and commitment within these founding fathers as well as many others, read it.

https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Hamilton/01-02-02-1167

The valediction of the letter describes the mentoring and advising relationship well in my opinion.

“I have spun out this letter to a much greater lenght than I intended. To develope the whole connection of my ideas on the subject and place my plan in the clearest light I have indulged myself in many observations which might have been omitted. I shall not longer intrude upon you[r] patience than to assure you of the sincere sentiments of esteem with which I have the honor to be   Sir   Your most Obedient   and humble servant

Alx Hamilton

April 30th. 81″

In his time Morris totally reorganized the treasury. He appointed tax collectors for each state who would prepare monthly financial reports and publish them in the newspapers for the public to see and keep pressure on the state governments. All of his work also helped build trust with foreign allies and those who provided products and services to the government during the war period.

Despite all of his good works for America, however, he began to make unwise decisions with his personal investment choices. While still in his treasury role in 1782 he began speculating on land purchases with John Nicholson, the comptroller of the state along with James Greenleaf, the former American consul to the Dutch Republic. They purchased millions of acres without any buyers or plans to repay loans. Over the years the debts increased while Morris also chose to build an opulent mansion for he and his family in Philly in the 1790’s. It was never completed and the cost contributed to his insolvency. The locals called it “Morris’s folly” as a representation of his downfall. His businesses and excessive land deals all began failing at the same time. It was like dominoes falling for years.

By 1798 patriot Declaration signer, Robert Morris, was sentenced to debtor’s prison. A fall from grace brought on primarily by pride, greed, and extravagance. Two years later a modified bankruptcy law was passed through the efforts of Thomas Jefferson and supporters. Morris was released and tried to return to business ventures without success as his reputation had been ruined.

In 1806 he passed away, a shell of his former self and in poverty. He is buried in the Christ Church cemetery. His wife lived until 1827 and survived on an annuity that had been provided to her through the efforts of Gouverneur Morris from a land sale.

Conclusion

Robert never went to school and was only tutored for one year, but his devotion to the education of citizens earned him the honor of having three elementary schools, a college, and a university named after him. His statue is located not only in DC at the mall, but near the Second National Bank in Philly. He and Mary’s friendship was so important to George and Martha Washington that they were frequently honored guests of theirs through the years. John Adams had the following to say about Robert’s time in the Continental Congress,

I think he has a masterly understanding, an open temper, and an honest heart…He has vast designs in the mercantile way. And no doubt pursues mercantile ends, which are always gain, but he is an excellent member of the body.”

Again, the Robert Morris story goes far beyond what is provided here and there are many life lessons for all of us. There was his ownership of slaves for a time that led to his opposition to slavery as he aged; his contribution of ships to the Naval efforts and the named ships in his honor over the years that followed; how his enemies helped cause his debt downfall after he left public office that traced back to his work for the patriot cause in the Secret Committee; and so on.

It is a story of the highest highs and lowest lows. Of being feted by the first couple Washingtons to being drug through the muck by personal enemies and into poverty. He was praised and honored and then later in life labeled a fool by some of the very people who partially owed their independence to his personal efforts. He adhered to Christianity, yet fell to temptation outside the bounds of marriage. When faced with the result he did the honorable thing as well as when he took care of his much younger half brother when his father died. He held great position, status in society for a time, and was very successful in business; but it was not enough as he foolishly sought even more riches using huge sums of debt well beyond his capacity to repay. This caused great hardship and damaged his reputation as well as the futures of his wife and children.

None of the negative events and challenges he faced changes the truth that Robert Morris was a faithful patriot that provided great things to the Independence and establishment of our nation. Today, we proudly celebrate him as a founding father of America.

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2025.06.17 American Stories: When in the Course…OK, I Lied

Yup, I said we would start back on Declaration signers today. Going to need to postpone that to next Tuesday’s opener. If I do not discuss the following I will probably forget and it is sneakily more important to the big picture of what our VSGPOTUS is doing than many realize. It is the industry in which I made my living as readers of BIMD will remember.

Small Business Acts of Importance

These links are short summaries – will not take long to read.

The official CEASE bill,

https://www.congress.gov/index.php/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/2987/text

Next is an industry summary of what it is about. ABA stands for the banking industry in this instance, not the Bar Assn. for the legal industry.

Link below is to all of the bills that came out of the great work of the HR Small Business Committee, including CEASE.

https://smallbusiness.house.gov/news/documentsingle.aspx?DocumentID=407198

Why Is All This Important?

Let’s answer that question with a simple statement that has been true for many, many years. Approximately half of the employed people in America work for who the federal government classifies as small businesses.

Must be kind of a big deal, right?

I am focusing on CEASE because of industry knowledge and experience. However, all seven Acts are very important and part of the much larger puzzle of what PDT is piecing together. Notice that all seven passed out of Committee along party lines at 15-11.

America should really stop pretending that bipartisanship can exist consistently. That idea is trash. It was promoted by the Uniparty for decades as a means for selling their dedication to American citizens, which we now know was hogwash. If you hear the word being sold by a politician or media propagandist you know what side they are on. Full stop.

Concerning all of the Acts passed in the committee, please notice that they are not all about small business necessarily. The SBA as an agency is a means to an end with some of the acts. It is also about using the agency as a weapon against illegal voter registration, against sanctuary cities, to cut regulatory burdens, and against climate change related scams.

Some on here will remember my recent posts about a fellow co-worker from my tree that took over a small business lending department for a bank in our area after I retired. He recently called and was distraught; considering early retirement over what Brandon and cronies did to the industry. They had opened the floodgates for borrower loan requests over $1 million and did not care if they were citizens or not or even if they were creditworthy. As a result fraud was rampant, delinquencies and defaults were soaring, and the agency was not honoring their guaranties on defaulted loans of even the honest lenders on a timely basis. In fact, they were trying to renege as often as they could. It had all turned into one giant clusterf–k.

i told him to be patient as I felt it would be addressed soon by the Trump admin and MAGA elected officials. Many of them experienced great heartburn over PPP program fraud that was administered by SBA during COVID. We see the results of their and the banking industry’s concerns in the bills linked above. We also see greatly improved internal policy decisions that reflect the changes below. Effective June 1, that hammer fell. All SBA lenders and small business borrowers must comply with the following revised, common sense, sound credit parameters and requirements to obtain SBA guaranteed loans.

https://www.commerciallendingx.com/blog/sba-policy-changes-effective-june-1st-2025

Most were parameters that were already required in some format and/or amount during my career that effectively ended on a full time basis 17 years ago. That they were not followed in the years since simply points to the systematic destruction of critically important financing options for small business owners who do not ordinarily qualify for conventional financing options at banks and other lenders. Brandon’s bunch desired the opposite to increase funds for the woke and money launderers.

The primary purpose of this private/public partnership between banks and the federal government is to provide capital to small businesses that need and deserve support. In turn they grow, provide products and services to the public, pay taxes, provide incomes and benefits to owners and employees, play important parts in communities and so on. In summary, they participate in the American Way. Many successfully become larger businesses and iconic brands that employ even larger numbers of people. However, it is true that many big businesses do not want increased competition. As a result they play politics with their smaller competitors to retain market share.

Which leads to the Main Street versus Wall Street tension that SD at TCTH discusses as well as in discussion within our federal government today. The former party of big business only is now the party of Main Street as well with the America First policies of the MAGA movement, thanks to the efforts of the patriots in league with PDT. The internal tension within the GOP will be to keep the playing field level for both big and small business. Which makes the next topics encouraging for us Main Street types.

CEASE Act

Some may ask why would an act be necessary to limit the number of non-bank lenders who could be active in SBA lending programs? Here is what led to it,

https://www.icba.org/newsroom/news-and-articles/2025/06/06/house-passes-icba-backed-legislation-to-protect-sba-lending

The truth is some of the non-bank small business lenders with licenses, SBLC’s, typically are bottom feeders. Some only meet minimum capitalization requirements and receive funding from other wholesale lenders at a higher cost of funds than banks typically realize. They also are not subject to regulatory scrutiny of the banking industry. That can lead to some shady dealings at times.

As a result some SBLC’s typically take more risk and charge borrowers higher interest rates to counter. As a natural consequence they experience higher delinquency rates and loan defaults. Like many other bank lenders in the program, they sell participations in the SBA guaranteed portions of loans to investors such as hedge funds, pension funds, insurance companies, credit unions, etc, that are usually represented by investment brokerage houses. The lack of credit worthiness of some of their customers impacts the overall performance of the pools of loans that go into securitizations that are sold to the end investors. This reduces their value over time, which reduces the premium offered to all lenders in the programs. It is not fair to thousands of banks that a handful of SBLC’s acting in bad faith are allowed to spoil the debt market barrel for the product. Not to mention the extra work created for SBA’s liquidation area on defaulted loans.

This is a weakness for all types of debt markets on Wall Street. it was the underlying cause of the debt market collapse of 2008 leading into The Great Recession. So what is the primary that weakness that can cause a nation’s economy to crumble? The Wall Street buyers of all types of loans are not “credit” people as bankers view credit. For example, bankers view credit from the perspective of the 5 C’s of credit, which bank regulators like from the FDIC understand and consider in their reviews. Those categories are character, capacity, capital, collateral and conditions. Commercial bankers are trained in the long established methodology of making loans to borrowers who are most likely to repay the bank back on time. This is the Main Street view – know your borrower and how they handle their business.

Wall Street sees credit differently. They do not drill down into individual loans to determine viability. They view historical performance of industries (SIC codes) and locational aspects along with loan pool average interest rates, terms, collateral, industry concentrations, etc. as the credit of the overall deal. They rely on rating agencies – S&P, Moody’s and Fitch to ascertain their overall rating of each pool of loans. The ratings agencies typically only review a small sampling of loans and are more interested in the documentation being correctly executed. To Wall Street, those are the factors that provide the credit worthiness of the macro pool of loans, not the micro individual loans themselves.

In my opinion this void in understanding credit was a major cause of the Great Recession because it happened in every type of debt instrument – residential mortgages, car loans, credit cards, commercial real estate, etc. This led to the banker version of credit being undercut by the crappy underwriting of non-bank lenders in all of those business segments, industries, and locations. Wall Street purchased huge volumes of loans from those sources in many overheated markets. When the borrowers began tanking on their loans in large numbers as the economy and job markets cooled, caused by politicians primarily, the funding for new loans in even stable industries also dried up. The institutional buyers were deservedly spooked and sought safe harbor in treasuries and other more stable investments. All of the insurance coverage with hedges, swaps and such went down with it. The Great Recession kicked in.

As it applies to SBA lending, when lesser performing SBLC’s provide lower quality loans to a mixed pool involving other lenders, they can taint the whole pool and hide crap loans. SBLC loans are mixed into pools with those of banks. Everybody is affected. As you will see below, they rack up some profits short term and once the crap begins to hit the fan – poof – they are gone.

Current Status

Below is the list of active SBLC’s as of 1/29/25 with authorization to make loans up to $5 million.

Alaska Growth Capital BIDCO, Inc. Nationwide
Arkansas Capital Corp. Nationwide
Centerstone SBA Lending, Inc. Nationwide
CRF Small Business Loan Company, LLC Nationwide
First Western SBLC, Inc Nationwide
Grow America Fund, Inc. Nationwide
Harvest Small Business Finance, LLC Nationwide
Lendistry SBLC, LLC Nationwide
Lendstream Small Business Finance, LLC Nationwide
Port 51 Lending, LLC Nationwide
Readycap Lending, LLC Nationwide
VelocitySBA, LLC Nationwide

Notice anything about the current list? There are 16 licenses authorized by the past act before Brandon and gang removed that restriction, at which time it went up to 19 approved lenders when they approved three new lender licenses. I will address an even worse atrocity associated with the 2023 changes involving the creation of special purpose lending companies later in this text below.

Currently, it is back to 16 authorized SBLC licenses again, yet, there are only 12 licensed lenders as of the beginning of PDT’s term of office. What happened to the four that were approved in the second half of 2024 – Cooperative Business Services (CBS), A10 Capital, Lafayette Square and Stonehenge Capital as replacements for four others who dropped out previously? They are not on the current list.

This is because their applications did not get activated with required Congressional approvals in time before PDT assumed office, so they lost out with PDT coming in. We also know one of the current licensees, Lendstream, has not made any SBA loans since 2022. They should not even have the license if they are going to be inactive, so something is “off” there. We also know that one of Brandon’s newbie three, Funding Circle, closed its operations soon after it started. Two were added that are still on the list, Alaska and Arkansas. So, sometime in 2024 they also replaced two that dropped off the list. That means a total of 6 lenders were approved to replace 6 on the list in 2024 and three were added above the former 16 limit, one of which failed. That is a movement of 9 non-bank licensed lenders in a year. That leaves 11 that are actually making SBA loans out of 16 authorized slots in 2025.

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Needless to say making fraudulent loans to formerly ineligible customers (i. e. illegals) by criminal enterprises using federal guaranties on the majority of the loans that create extra profits for the subject non-bank lenders is a recipe for disaster for the programs, SBA and Americans. The current admin is taking the approach of eliminating that possibility in opposition to Brandon and the Uniparty who had that as their MO for SBLC’s since banks are more controlled by Congressional acts as well as regulatory authorities.

Hypothetically, let’s say you are a higher up in a cartel and you have established some seemingly legit businesses to launder cash through. In the past you could invest into an SBLC with the Brandon regime’s approval through a shell company or other legit business. You would then have the ability to influence or otherwise approve loans to other connected businesses to pull cash and/or launder money. In those businesses there would probably be hordes of illegals as employees who were given some form of legal resident status by Brandon’s crims, which undoubtedly also led to some being illegally registered as voters, Medicaid recipients, Social Security recipients and so on. All of the above would support Dem politicians and designees.

Is some of this making sense now? SBA is just one agency of the federal government that was used for these type purposes, there were many more.

In my personal opinion, that cartel/crim scenario probably applied to more than one of the exited licensed lenders including the ones discussed in the link below. The legit SBLC’s generally make enough good loans to help cover for the excessive bad loans of the crims, who have lower loan volumes as they attempt to stay under the radar. The loan volume of the better lenders is higher and they have received SBA’s highly desired Preferred Lender status rating, which means they do things right. I know several of the leaders of these quality lenders; did business with one CEO when he was employed at a well known SBLC from BIMD.

The following SBA press release from a month ago gives clarity and examples of an explosion of the new special purpose SBLC’s that Brandon’s crims put in place.

https://www.sba.gov/article/2025/05/19/sba-overhauls-reckless-biden-era-lending-program

From the link; “However, in 2023, the Biden Administration revived Community Advantage and approved more than 140 new, unregulated lenders for the program, selectively certifying groups including “The Progress Fund,” “PeopleFund,” and “Black Business Investment Fund.” It then attempted to increase the loan limit for the program from $250,000 to $500,000 – or up to $2 million to fund climate-related projects in support of the Green New Scam.”

SBA as an agency and the industry was a goner if PDT had not won. Obviously the agency was a major source of fraud and money laundering using leftist scams and illegals.

Conclusion

All of these current congressional activities tell me the Trump admin is all over it and knows the game the crims have been playing. The plug is being pulled and it is a GREAT thing for America in many areas of concern.

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