Trump clobbered Biden in the debate? Of course he did. So what? They’re not going to step aside for Trump. They will cheat, declare martial law, a green emergency, a crime emergency. They will do anything but step aside. These people are not in favor of our Constitution. None of the Democrats, none of the RINOs. All of their actions support my point. They are tyrants. Tyrants don’t walk away from power unless forced.
We’re past the point of debate.
A true American’s attitude toward the lawless occupation puppet Biden regime should be: DO NOT COMPLY.
Elect Trump (if you can), arrest all of them, try them for treason — or secede.
Launch the breakup. This government is fiscally and morally bankrupt, on the verge of collapse. Enough is enough.
A reader replies: “I don’t believe in seceding, I believe in taking it all back. Not a single inch of our country belongs to them.
They don’t get to come in and abuse us and lie, cheat, and steal from us, and then keep the children and half of our country.”
My reply: I agree. Secession is a last resort. However, if we don’t have the military and DOJ on our side, the federal government is our enemy, not our friend. We might have to secede first in order to take it back. I don’t see the occupation government in power stepping down for Trump, or for anyone.
They think if they can just eradicate Trump, all will be well. But why is Trump so popular? Millions support him and his message, and his policies. Leftists’ own polls show Trump possibly crushing Biden. If they succeed at eliminating Trump, will all that support evaporate? Or will they have to impose a dictatorship to suppress it all, as they’re presently trying to do? Can you suppress a movement supported by half or more of the American population? By tens of millions? That takes inconceivable hubris.
The smugness, ignorance and arrogance of leftists should not surprise us. If they think we can have Communism for the masses while letting the connected, powerful elites enjoy their billions, they’re failing to consider: Where will all the anger go? They say Trump’s support is all based on irrational anger and hatred. Even if that were true (of course it’s not), the anger has to go somewhere. If they imprison, silence or even murder Trump, the anger won’t just disappear. The leftists’ problems will intensify. Trump’s martyrdom could escalate into an American version of the French Revolution.
Leftists, media, academics and the connected, corporate left-wing totalitarian elites are playing with fire.
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From reading the left-wing media, you know (or think you know) that there is an energy “transition” going on. This is something that must happen as a matter of urgent necessity. Vast government subsidies are being disbursed to assure its rapid success. Fossil fuels are rapidly on the way out, while wind and solar are quickly taking over.
For example, you may well have seen the big piece last August in the New York Times, headline “The Clean Energy Future Is Arriving Faster Than You Think.”
Across the country, a profound shift is taking place . . . . The nation that burned coal, oil and gas for more than a century to become the richest economy on the planet, as well as historically the most polluting, is rapidly shifting away from fossil fuels.
But if you read that piece, or any one of dozens of others from the Times or other “mainstream” sources, what you won’t find are meaningful statistics on the extent to which fossil fuel use is declining, if at all, or the extent to which renewables like wind and solar are actually replacing them.
That’s why the Manhattan Contrarian turns instead to dry statistical data to try to get the real story. Several years ago I discovered an annual book of energy data called the Statistical Review of World Energy. At the time, the Statistical Review was produced by the international oil company BP. I first covered one of these Reviews in this post from July 2019. A couple of years ago BP apparently decided to get out of this business, and turned the product over to something called the Energy Institute. EI then produced a Statistical Review in June 2023 (covering 2022), and now is just out on June 20, 2024 with a Statistical Review covering 2023.
Most of the Statistical Review consists of just spreadsheets of numbers. There are some charts, but relatively few. But the takeaways are too obvious to hide. The big one is this: there is no energy “transition” going on, at least not in the sense that “renewables” are actually supplanting fossil fuels. Yes there is some considerable amount of “renewable” wind and solar electricity generation getting built (with huge government subsidies). But it is not replacing fossil fuel generation. Rather, fossil fuel generation continues to increase, and its share of overall energy production has barely budged.
Here is EI’s June 20 Press Release, which summarizes the five “key stories” that it says emerge from the statistics. The first one is the big one — increasing energy consumption led by increased production and consumption of fossil fuels:
Record global energy consumption, with coal and oil pushing fossil fuels and their emissions to record levels. Global primary energy consumption overall was at a record absolute high, up 2% on the previous year to 620 Exajoules (EJ). Global fossil fuel consumption reached a record high, up 1.5% to 505 EJ (driven by coal up 1.6%, oil up 2% to above 100 million barrels for first time, while gas was flat). As a share of the overall mix they were at 81.5%, marginally down from 82% last year.
And of course, “emissions” continue to rise:
Emissions from energy increased by 2%, exceeding 40 gigatonnes of CO2 for the first time.
No matter how much the federal government or any state threatens to punish you for your sin of fossil fuel use, aggregate global emissions from such use are not going to go down within our lifetimes.
The second “key story” relates to the contribution, or lack thereof, of solar and wind. Here EI engages in some modest spinning to make things look less bad than they are for the solar and wind promoters; but there’s not much they can do:
Solar and wind push global renewable electricity generation to another record level. Renewable generation, excluding hydro, was up 13% to a record high of 4,748 TWh. This growth was driven almost entirely by wind and solar, and accounted for 74% of all net additional electricity generated.
4,748 TWh of renewable generation — wow, that’s a lot! Or is it? Do you notice how they suddenly switched units from Exajoules to Terawatt hours when they changed from talking about fossil fuels to solar and wind. Does anybody around here know the conversion factor? Yes — it’s 277.778 TWh per EJ. That means that the 4,748 TWh of “almost entirely” solar and wind power generated in 2023 came to all of 17.1 EJ, which is just 2.7% of the 620 EJ of world primary energy consumption. Could you have imagined that it could be so little, after decades of over-the-top promotion and trillions of dollars of subsidies?
And pay attention to that line “wind and solar . . . accounted for 74% of all net additional electricity generated.” Does that somehow sound like a transition is happening? It’s the opposite. If wind and solar were actually taking over, they would have to account for 100% of additional generation, plus large further amounts to replace fossil fuel generators. As long as wind and solar account for less than all of additional generation, then fossil fuels are continuing to increase, and there is no “transition” going on at all.
I mentioned that there were relatively few charts in the Review, but some of them are striking. Here is one of my favorites, showing global coal consumption from 1965 to 2023:
Over that period, North America and Europe have cut their consumption almost by half, from almost 40 EJ per year to around 20. But over the same period the consumption in the rest of the world has gone from about 20 EJ to around 140, multiplying by a factor of 7. And don’t be fooled by the apparent leveling off of increases in total consumption in the last several years. That reflects continuing decreases in North America and Europe, which are more than offset by larger increases in the Asia Pacific region.
Robert Bryce at his Substack has many more details from the EI Statistical Review, plus several charts that he has created from the EI data. He is much better at creating charts than I am. The title of Bryce’s article is “Numbers Don’t Lie.” Bryce also has a figure for the amount of government subsidies that have gone to wind and solar generation since 2004: $4.7 trillion. That much money to fund a supposed “transition” that isn’t occurring at all.
The story is going to be effectively the same every year until finally the promoters give up on the wind/solar scam.
I don’t plan to watch the rigged debate between Trump and Biden this week. I am confident Trump will handle himself extremely well — this amazing man, and what he’s enduring, truly make him one for the ages; but I can’t participate in a shared delusional psychosis that this charade is anything remotely like an objective conversation among (aside from Trump) even marginally serious people. Seeing Biden spit, sputter and slur his toxic fascist tantrums while media sycophants gaze with vacant, adoring pretense is too much to ask myself to endure when there are good books to be read and still so much else of worth to do. I can always reread “The Emperor Has No Clothes,” for a more accurate, honest representation of what’s happening. This, however, is unadulterated theater — not in a good way.
Yes, I will probably watch some interesting excerpts of the whole fiasco later, but I reserve the right to censor Biden and his media when viewing them. Squandering precious time watching the propaganda maneuvers of these pretentious glorified brats — a stupidly undeserving crime family, an almost entirely unchallenged gang of legalized mobsters calling themselves “Democrats”, and their own personal, fawning media — have nothing to offer: Nothing, except more painful reminders that a once great country based on the smartest, wisest, soundest principles EVER has degenerated into the miserable aftermath of a grisly accident — a genuine catastrophe, incredibly, still applauded by millions of ignorant morons.
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I’m concerned about the safety of so many people in this country, particularly people of color,” Waters told host Jonathan Capehart, suggesting that the political violence will come from racist MAGA supporters:
Donald Trump has said that if he does not win, it is going to be fraud, and because it is going to be fraud, there will be blood in the streets. He threatens about a civil war, and he threatens there’s going to be violence. I would say all of this talk is motivational with many of those who are racist, who are sitting at home listening to him, and they are taking him up on his threats even before the elections take place. It is about thousands, maybe millions of people being threatened and being at risk because of Donald Trump and his desire to seek revenge on anything and everybody.
This is simply false rabble-rousing. Trump has not “threatened” violence over the election, and her insinuation that his followers are racist is an unconscionably ugly smear – but par for the course with Mad Max. This is the same woman, you will recall, who once incitedher followers to harass and intimidate Trump officials in public places and “tell them they’re not welcome anymore, anywhere.”
She added on MSNBC, “I do believe having listened to Donald Trump so many times and having the attack, the insurrection that took place on the House of Representatives in Congress, on the Capitol, the Capitol grounds, we could be in for more killings like that.”
Killings like what? First of all, there was no attempted insurrection, only FBI-facilitated crowd confusion laced with a containable dose of hooligan opportunism. No one attempts an insurrection without weapons, a carefully-constructed plan, and a leader – none of which the January 6 participants had. Second, the only people who died on that date – four, to be exact – were all Trump supporters. The only killing that day was the shooting of unarmed protester Ashli Babbitt by a Capitol police officer who later claimed ridiculously that he “saved countless lives” by opening fire.
The Democrats, who never let a good crisis go to waste, have exploited the Deep State-instigated Capitol chaos of January 6th to smear Trump supporters relentlessly as violent, white supremacist insurrectionists who are A Threat to Democracy™. The Dems have done this in order to fear-monger about the upcoming election, which they know they cannot win on the strength of Biden/Harris’ accomplishments or popularity, both of which hover just above nonexistent.
The very next day after Waters’ interview aired on the propaganda outlet MSNBC, left-wing Hamas supporters and Jew-haters targeted a pair of Los Angeles synagogues to harass Jews violently. Freedom Center Shillman Fellow Daniel Greenfield was actually present for one of the incidents and wrote about it for FrontPage Mag’s “The Point” blog. In the post, Greenfield shared his X (Twitter) posts in which he wrote,
There were multiple instances of Jewish community members being maced/bear sprayed with no police response the LAPD was deployed in riot gear but did nothing for nearly an hour, failed to separate protesters from counter-protesters, intervene or put up barriers.
He added, “Hamas supporters were able to freely roam around a Jewish neighborhood in the Pico-Robertson area threatening people. A Muslim man in a keffiyeh told me ‘billions will come to kill you.’” Why did “these Hamas thugs feel empowered to come into the Pico Robertson neighborhood at the Adas Torah synagogue on Pico Blvd and threaten Jews? Because Los Angeles Democrats have their back.”
Greenfield concluded,
The violence was bad enough that politicians have condemned it (rather than the specific perpetrators) even as the media, including the LA Times, predictably describes “clashes erupting between both sides” condemning the Muslims and Marxists who attacked a synagogue and the Jews who didn’t want their synagogue attacked.
Muslims and Marxists – what David Horowitz calls the “unholy alliance” of Jew haters. The anti-Zionist antisemites harassing and assaulting Jews in L.A. were left-wing, not right-wing. Jew haters on the Right share the Left’s hatred of Israel and Jews, but they don’t march in the streets alongside Queers for Palestine and Code Pink, or settle in campus encampments with cultural Marxists waving Hamas and Hezbollah flags. They mostly just congregate online in the comments sections of X (Twitter), posting “Christ is King” dog whistles, sharing video clips from slimy white supremacist leader Nick Fuentes, and cheering social media grifter Candace Owens. No, the hordes of antisemites who have physically taken to the campuses and streets to support and celebrate Hamas’ October 7th savagery, and to promise more of the same, are left-wing.
The entrapment of January 6th “insurrectionists” notwithstanding, the overwhelming amount of political violence in modern American history has come not from the Tea Party or the MAGA crowd, but from the Democrat Party. And yet the Left’s gaslighting about which side dominates political violence continues. One can find no end of articles online hyping the threat of Trump-sanctioned MAGA violence. The left-wing Washington Post, for example, keeps up a steadydrumbeat of fear-mongering editorials warning of rage and retribution from Trump “militants.”
By contrast, Google the term “political violence” and try to find coverage of left-wing violence in American news. Try to find mainstream articles labeling as “political violence” the incalculable devastation and deaths wrought by the Marxist revolutionaries of Black Lives Matter and the anarchic shock troops of Antifa. The mainstream media has previously whitewashed BLM rioting as “mostly peaceful protests,” and defended the brownshirts of Antifa as just “an idea, not an organization,” as Biden himself stated.
political violence continues. One can find no end of articles online hyping the threat of Trump-sanctioned MAGA violence. The left-wing Washington Post, for example, keeps up a steadydrumbeat of fear-mongering editorials warning of rage and retribution from Trump “militants.”
Despite the disinformation and bias in Big Tech resources like Google, and the relentless gaslighting and projection from the left-wing mainstream media like MSNBC and Democrat leaders like Maxine Waters, the demonstrable truth is that all but a fraction of political violence – not only recently but for decades – is attributable to the Democrat Party. From the Weather Underground and the Black Panthers to today’s Hamas supporters, violent revolution drives the Left.
If Trump loses in November – which will only happen through massive Democrat voter fraud – it is possible that some fed-up Trump supporters may lash out in violence. Indeed, I wrote recently about the very possibility that we are on the verge of a hot civil war, which another stolen election could trigger. But that would pale in comparison to the level of left-wing political violence we will witness if Trump wins in November. It will dwarf the unrest this country has suffered over the last 60 years, including during the 1969 “Days of Rage” and the “Summer of Floyd” rioting of 2020.
And still the media will label it “mostly peaceful,” justifiable “resistance” to the perceived fascism of Donald Trump and his voters who just want to make America great again.
“Former President Donald Trump holds a 5-point lead over President Joe Biden in battleground Georgia, according to a new Atlanta-Journal Constitution/University of Georgia survey released Tuesday.”
Should be interesting to see what happens to that lead when Atlanta suffers a pipe burst and a sudden infusion of mail-in votes on election night. But no … they certainly wouldn’t try THAT again!
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“The CIA interfered in the 2020 election by colluding with the Biden campaign to discredit the Hunter Biden laptop story, a congressional report found Tuesday.” [Breitbart]
Keep in mind: If true, this was (in 2020) the CIA under the Trump administration. It means the federal government is so wildly out of control that it’s probably too late for a decent president to save it. When a government is at war with its own people, and also with its own Constitution, it’s time to arrest everyone involved and start over. Or, if all else fails — secede. Sadly, this is war.
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“It’s not a question of if, it’s more of a question of when we will have a bird flu pandemic,” CDC (Communist Disease Center) Redfield told News Nation last week.
It’s not a question of WHEN, either. The bird flu “pandemic” will occur when it politically SUITS them. Quite probably this October. Remember, Fauci promised a pandemic before the end of Trump’s term, back in 2017. These people keep their promises.
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Remember the good old days when it was possible to talk about “public servants” with a straight face? In 1958, liberal economist John Kenneth Galbraith wrote a book titled The Affluent Society, in which he contrasted America’s fabulously wealthy private sector with its alleged poor relation, the public sector. Galbraith was probably wrong, even then–he was wrong about nearly everything–but in the decades that have since gone by, the idea that the public sector is underpaid has become increasingly risible.
Today, we live in a two-tier society, with government and its employees and hangers-on lording it over the rest of us. Governments are the greediest institutions in our society, and government employees use their power to, among other things, overpay themselves.
A number of economists have tried to quantify the difference in compensation between private sector and public sector workers. This calculation by the Committee to Unleash Prosperity is not as disproportionate as some I have seen. That is likely because it only applies to state and local government employees:
We keep harping on this outrageous scandal of the pay inequity between government and private employees. This taxpayer rip-off has been going on for 40 years and NOTHING happened.
Our CTUP economist, EJ Antoni, notes that taxpayers are paying a 40% premium to state and local government employees over comparable private employees. The data show that taxpayers pay public sector employees 23% higher salaries and a whopping 79% higher benefits than private employers. This doesn’t even include the value of lifetime tenure (i.e. you can’t get fired from a government job no matter how poor your performance).
The disproportion is probably even more grotesque with regard to federal employees. At what point will taxpayers tell our employees that we are no longer able to keep them in the style to which they have become accustomed?
Eevery U.S. citizen now owes roughly $100,000 in federal debt. That is the grim news from the most recent study by the Congressional Budget Office (CBO). CBO data show that federal debt has been growing at an unsustainable rate for decades and will continue to do so in coming years. At some point, the United States will hit a fiscal cliff, when lack of confidence in the ability of the federal government to repay the debt will result in sharply higher interest rates and default. We are in the final years of our debt crisis.
Congress is simply unable to bring federal expenditures into balance with federal revenues to stabilize and reduce federal debt. Congress has passed numerous statutory rules mandating this solution, but these rules are routinely circumvented and suspended. There is little discussion of the debt crisis in this election year because elected officials have in effect thrown in the towel.
However, the states have now launched a Hail Mary to solve the debt crisis. State attorneys general will soon file a lawsuit in the U.S. Supreme Court, which seeks a Declaratory Judgement against Congress for failing to fulfil its constitutional duty under Article V to record and count state applications for a fiscal responsibility amendment.
Article V of the U.S. Constitution gives the states as well as Congress the power to propose amendments. The states have submitted applications for a fiscal responsibility amendment for centuries, but Congress has failed to record and count these applications. In 1979, two thirds of the states had submitted applications for a fiscal responsibility amendment, but Congress failed to count these applications or call the amendment convention.
This year, Rep. Jody Arrington (R-TX) filed HCR 24, which would require Congress to fulfill its constitutional duty to record and count state applications for a fiscal responsibility amendment and call the amendment convention if the requisite applications by two thirds of the states is met. Unfortunately, this legislation has made little headway in Congress.
Citizens are now left with the Hail Mary solution. The Supreme Court must issue a Declaratory Judgment against Congress for failing to record and count state applications for a fiscal responsibility amendment. Congress must then record and count the state applications. If the requisite two-thirds of the states have submitted such applications, Congress must then set the time and place for an amendment convention. If two-thirds of the states in the convention agree on a fiscal responsibility amendment, the proposed amendment must be submitted to the states for ratification. Three-fourths of the states must ratify the proposed amendment for it to be incorporated in the Constitution.
This is a Hail Mary solution for several reasons. The states have never amended the Constitution through an Article V amendment convention. The Supreme Court must issue an unprecedented Declaratory Judgment requiring Congress to record and count the state applications, a major legal hurdle. Two-thirds of the states must agree on a fiscal responsibility amendment in an Article V amendment convention, and three-fourths of the states must then ratify the proposed amendment. These are major barriers in bringing a fiscal responsibility amendment to the states for ratification. But before we throw in the towel, it is important to note the precedents for incorporating effective fiscal rules in the Constitution.
Countries such as Switzerland have been successful in using constitutional fiscal rules to solve their debt crisis. The Swiss have a long history of incorporating fiscal rules in their constitutions at all levels of government through direct democracy. The Swiss debt brake was incorporated in the Swiss Constitution through a referendum with support from 85 percent of Swiss citizens. The debt brake simply requires Swiss legislators to bring expenditures into balance with revenue in the near term. A cap is placed on the rate of growth in federal spending equal to the long run rate of economic growth. The debt brake allows for emergency spending in the short term, but deficits must be offset by surplus revenue within a six-year period.
The importance of the Swiss debt brake was revealed this year when the Swiss Parliament rejected a proposed budget that exceeded the spending limit and would have required suspension of the debt brake. The Swiss Parliament also rejected legislation earmarking funds for the Ukraine War because the spending violated the debt brake rules. In contrast to the United States, the Swiss debt brake has imposed effective constraints on fiscal policies over the long term. The debt brake helped Switzerland to stabilize and reduce federal debt as a share of national income.
Polls reveal that an overwhelming majority of U.S. citizens support a fiscal responsibility amendment to the Constitution. So, if a fiscal responsibility amendment is ever submitted to the states for ratification there is a high probability that the measure would pass. However, the odds are against the United States enacting a fiscal responsibility amendment in the Constitution though the Article V process. We are like the football coach with one play left to win the ball game; we don’t have much choice.
Barry Poulson (think@heartland.org) is a policy advisor with The Heartland Institute.
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Everyone talks these days about “gaslighting.” They want to know the formal psychological definition. It’s not a formal psychological term, so there isn’t one. (I am a mental health professional of 36 years, so I know.) So far as I can tell, “gaslighting” means someone does something self-evidently wrong, cruel or illogical to you, and then pretends he or she didn’t. “What’s wrong?” It’s infuriating to the point of speechlessness and fosters a sense of rage and helplessness in the recipient.
Surely people do this to each other quite a bit, which has given rise to the popularity of the term. I am hard pressed to find more eloquent or concise examples of gaslighting than the attitude and actions of our politicians, bureaucrats and media people. They are literally destroying our livelihoods and our liberties, and then acting not just like it’s nothing, but like they’re our virtuous saviors. It’s sick in the extreme, and it’s in no way sustainable.
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With the first presidential debate of the 2024 election just a week away, the Biden team has been in “intensive discussion and preparation” at Camp David, hoping Biden will be able to revive his former strength.
Meanwhile, President Trump has been traveling around the country, engaging with voters at rallies and through media interviews.
Biden has been doing political debates for 50 years, having taken part in at least 40candidatedebates since 1972.
Despite this experience, Biden’s debate performances have been described as “shaky” and “pretty bad” and are often filled with lies.
More than three years into Biden’s presidency, the American people have seen nothing but crisis after crisis, have less money in their pockets, and are tired of their tax dollars being wasted.
BIDEN HAS CREATED AN UNPRECEDENTED CRISIS AT THE BORDER
Biden’s failed immigration policies have created an unprecedented crisis at the border.
In Biden’s first 100 days, he took more than 94 executive actions on immigration, including halting construction of the border wall and ending the successful “Remain in Mexico” policy.
Since then, more than 6 million migrants have crossed the border illegally.
Biden has set the record for all-time migrant encounters at the southern border every year of his presidency.
Under Biden, more people on the FBI terror watchlist were arrested at the southern border in FY 2023 than in the last six years combined.
Law enforcement recently arrested eight individuals from Tajikistan with potential ties to the ISIS terror organization.
Under Trump, the border was secure – and will be again under his leadership.
President Trump built nearly 500 miles of the world’s most robust and advanced border wall, resulting in an 87 percent reduction in illegal border crossings where the wall stands.
President Trump ended the dangerous policy of “catch-and-release,” which allowed illegal aliens to be released into the United States, often never to be seen again.
Under President Trump, the United States entered a historic partnership with the Mexican government to deploy tens of thousands of Mexican soldiers to secure their side of the border.
According to Freddie Mac, the average 30-year fixed mortgage rate has more than doubled since Biden took office, increasing from 2.77 percent to 6.95 percent.
Rent affordability is the worst on record, with a new high of 22.4 million renter households considered cost-burdened.
The average car payment, now well over $700 per month for a new vehicle, has reached a record high due to a spike in auto loan interest rates.
Following standard budgeting advice to not spend more than 10 percent of monthly income on car-related expenses, Americans would need an income of at least $100,000 to afford a car.
These new high-paying jobs led to the lowest unemployment rate in nearly 50 years.
Unemployment rates for African Americans, Hispanic Americans, Asian Americans, Native Americans, veterans, individuals with disabilities, and those without a high school diploma all reached new record lows.
Trump has a 14-point lead over Biden in who Americans trust to handle the economy and inflation, according to Ipsos.
BIDEN’S TRADE POLICIES HAVE PUT AMERICA LAST
In October 2021, Biden suspended Trump’s steel and aluminum tariffs on the European Union in exchange for tariff-rate quotas, leading to the importation of cheap goods that threaten U.S. businesses.
Now, as the election approaches, Biden is reversing course and choosing to use President Trump’s policies, but it’s too little too late.
Biden announced he would raise tariffs on Chinese imports only after Trump made this a key issue.
President Trump successfully negotiated a deal requiring China to purchase an additional $200 billion worth of United States exports.
Trump invoked Section 232 tariffs that sparked new investments in American steel and aluminum manufacturing totaling nearly $15 billion, resulting in an estimated 4,000 new jobs and the expansion or creation of more than 65 new domestic steel and aluminum projects.
President Trump’s tariffs on imported aluminum and steel secured massive wage hikes for over 16,000 American steelworkers.
Hardworking Americans are suffering the cost of Biden’s war on American energy.
Under Biden, energy prices have soared nearly 30 percent—13 times faster than the previous seven years, and all 50 states have reached new record-high gas prices.
Americans have lost over $4,435 paying higher energy costs since Biden took office, and nearly 20 million households have fallen behind on utility bills while costs continue to rise.
Biden has depleted more than 40 percent of the U.S. Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR), bringing the SPR down to its lowest level in four decades – further jeopardizing American energy independence amid multiple growing crises around the world.
In 2020, Democrats blocked the Trump administration from filling the SPR at $24 per barrel, but now Biden sought to fill it at $79 per barrel.
Biden rejoined the Paris Climate Agreement, which economists estimate will kill anywhere from 400,000 to 2.7 million jobs, force American households to spend up to 20 percent more for their electricity, and shrink the U.S. economy by $2.5 trillion.
President Trump withdrew from the unfair, one-sided Paris Climate Agreement.
Meanwhile, China is making a long-term play for the U.S. market, looking to Mexico to skirt tariffs while heavily subsidizing their own EV manufacturers.
Biden’s expansive climate restrictions have made life difficult for America’s farmers and ranchers, while his anti-energy policies have helped drive up diesel prices.
The Biden administration proposed newregulations that would limit farmers’ ability to utilize certain herbicides and insecticides to protect their crops.
The Biden administration has pushed lab-grown meat as part of environmental justice and sustainability efforts to replace “traditional meat products.”
President Trump will once again unleash American energy for the American people.
For the first time in nearly 70 years, President Trump made the United States a net energy exporter.
President Trump cut red tape holding back the construction of new energy infrastructure.
President Trump will eliminate Biden’s disastrous environmental restrictions on American agriculture, ensuring strength and stability for American farmers and the U.S. supply chain.
President Trump will ensure that the future of the auto industry will be made in America.
On Day One, President Trump will roll back every Biden policy that is brutalizing American autoworkers and will work to stop the flow of American tax dollars that are subsidizing Chinese electric vehicle battery companies.
To counter Chinese economic aggression and protect U.S. autoworkers, President Trump has pledged to slap a 100 percent tariff on Chinese vehicle imports.
BIDEN’S WEAK LEADERSHIP HAS EMBOLDENED AMERICA’S ADVERSARIES
Biden’s weak leadership and failed foreign policy has undermined the United States and our allies.
Biden’s weakness failed to deter Russia from launching a full-scale invasion of Ukraine.
Biden waived sanctions on the CEO and corporation responsible for building the Nord Stream 2 pipeline from Russia to Germany, effectively clearing the way for the pipeline to be completed.
Biden’s disastrous appeasement strategy with Iran has allowed the world’s largest state sponsor of terrorism to destabilize the Middle East endangering the United States and our allies.
Iran had $4 billion in foreign reserves when Biden took office – now, Iran’s foreign reserves are above $70 billion, freeing them to fund terror across the Middle East.
Iran helped plot the October 7 Hamas attack on Israel while Iran-backed militias have attacked U.S. troops in the Middle East at least 170 times.
Al Qaeda is “actively” using Afghanistan as a safe haven to “plot and plan attacks against American interests and the American homeland” just as when the war first began.
Assisted Living Locators CEO Angela Olea, RN: “Our senior advisors have seen move-in fees at assisted living facilities jump from $5,000 to $10,000, or monthly rental fees increase by an unprecedented 10%.”
Over half of Medicare enrollees now enjoy Medicare Advantage plans because they’re provided lower costs, out-of-pocket spending limits, better care, and more benefits.
On top of the cuts, the Biden administration has taken several steps already to undermine the success of Medicare Advantage, including eliminating 2,000 diagnosis codes, which resulted in less coverage for seniors enrolled in Medicare Advantage plans than conventional Medicare fee-for-service.
President Trump expanded health care choice, transparency, and affordability.
President Trump signed several executive orders to increase price transparency by requiring hospitals to publish costs for a wide range of procedures, allowing patients to shop among hospitals for the most affordable healthcare.
President Trump eliminated the Obamacare individual mandate—a financial relief to low- and middle-income households that made up nearly 80 percent of the families who paid the penalty for not wanting to purchase health insurance.
Trump increased choice for consumers by promoting competition in the individual health insurance market leading to lower premiums for three years in a row.
Under the Trump administration, more than 90 percent of U.S. counties had multiple options on the individual insurance market to choose from.
President Trump offered Association Health Plans, which allow employers to pool together and offer more affordable, quality health coverage to their employees at up to 30 percent lower cost.
President Trump introduced price caps on insulin copays at $35 for individuals enrolled in Medicare Part D.
Biden is now attempting to take credit for lowering insulin costs despite the Trump administration already capping costs at $35.
AMERICANS ARE LESS SAFE UNDER BIDEN
According to the “nonpartisan” Council on Criminal Justice, crime has surged since 2019, with homicides up 18 percent, gun assault up 32 percent, motor vehicle theft up 105 percent, carjackings up 93 percent, and aggravated assault up 8 percent.
In most cities, homicide rates remain higher than pre-pandemic levels.
At the end of 2023, 63 percent of Americans said crime is an “extremely” or “very” serious problem in the U.S., the highest percentage since Gallup started asking the question.
77 percent of Americans believe there is more crime in the U.S. than a year ago.
Police departments are struggling to combat both a lack of funds and a lack of respect as they try to do their jobs.
Democrats are on record repeatedly calling to defund the police and following through by slashing money from police budgets.
The Police Executive Research Forum found a nationwide decline of 4.8 percent in police numbers compared to three years ago.
President Trump will restore law and order and make America safe again.
To combat a surge of violent crime in cities, President Trump launched Operation Legend, resulting in more than 6,000 arrests. ·
President Trump created the first-ever White House position focused solely on combating human trafficking.
During President Trump’s first term, before the pandemic, violent crime had decreased by 3.7 percent and murders fell by 5.7 percent.
Biden has spent decades lying that he was a part of the Civil Rights movement, falsely claiming he marched and helped desegregate businesses.
Biden worked with segregationists in the U.S. Senate to oppose busing to help desegregate schools, saying he did not want his children growing up in a “racial jungle.”
As part of Biden and Democrats’ failed $1.9 trillion “stimulus,” $60,000 was spent on a grant to research “Latinx” history.
Instead of providing real solutions, all Biden can do is pander and mock Asian Americans.
Biden has used racial tropes to describe Indian Americans, mimicking an Indian accent to describe call centers and claiming “you cannot go to a 7-Eleven or a Dunkin’ Donuts unless you have a slight Indian accent.”
Biden asked Andrew Yang what he would do if he was “emperor” and referred to Singaporean leader Li Kuan Yew as “the wisest man in the Orient.”
Meanwhile, President Trump is focused on uplifting all Americans.
President Trump’s tax cuts created the Opportunity Zones program, which led to $75 billion in new private investment into distressed communities.
The majority of opportunity zone residents are minorities, including more than 7 million Black Americans.
The new investments led to a rise in home values creating $11 billion in new wealth in minority neighborhoods.
The bipartisan First Step Act was the first landmark criminal justice reform legislation ever passed to reduce recidivism and help former inmates successfully rejoin society.
President Trump’s pro-growth agenda delivered an economic boom, which drove down unemployment and expanded opportunity for Hispanic Americans.
Biden said it was “a big mistake” to push for the total elimination of Hamas.
Biden paused an ammunition shipment to Israel amid of flurry of antisemitic protests on college campuses.
Biden was recently caught saying he would have a “come to Jesus meeting” with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and had previously called Israel’s response to Hamas’ horrific attack “over the top.”
The United States failed to veto a UN Security Council Resolution calling for an immediate ceasefire without a demand for Hamas to release the hostages still being held in Gaza.
Biden has systematically undercut Israel at the UN since day one by rejoining the antisemitic UNHRC, bankrolling UNRWA’s Hamas collaborators, cancelling UN sanctions on Iran, and participating in a moment of silence for President Raisi and demanding that the IDF stand down in Rafah.
Meanwhile, President Trump stands with Israel and against anti-Semitism.
Under President Trump’s leadership the United States recognized Jerusalem as the true capital of Israel.
President Trump brokered four Middle East peace deals, collectively called the Abraham Accords, between Israel and Arab-Muslim nations in four months.
More than 45 federal officials and White House staffers have been in regular contact with Silicon Valley tech companies about removing “undesirable” content from their platforms, primarily from conservative sources.
Biden’s Department of Homeland Security spent $350,000 on a university program that compared conservative organizations, including Fox News and the Heritage Foundation, to extremist Nazi groups.
While Biden is wielding the levers of power for his own political ends, President Trump is focused on cleaning out the deep state.
On day one, Trump will re-issue his 2020 executive order restoring the president’s authority to fire rogue bureaucrats.
President Trump will overhaul federal departments and agencies, fundamentally reform the FISA courts, and make every Inspector General’s office independent from the departments they oversee.
