The vast majority of GOP staffers are these goody two shoes White types either from the south or mormons from Utah They are incredibly nice people who love the country and want to make it a better place They are purposefully kept ignorant about how politics in this country actually works and are nothing but cannon fodder in waiting for the GOP when shit hits the fan They will receive no support from Trump, any of their bosses in Congress, or any mainstream media figures the moment something inconvenient happens They are very gullible (because they are goody two shoes Whites who have never been lied to seriously in their entire lives) and believe the leftists they work with everyday are smiling because they like them when in reality they are imagining them getting gang raped to death or shot So long as the GOP is not a militant institution that protects its own workers/supporters absolutely no one should vote for or work for the party in national elections

As a young conservative staffer, I’ve always thought of progressive staffers as honorable opponents in the war of ideas, messaging, and political strategy. I’m learning they do not think of us the same way.

"A U.S.-made iPhone would cost $37,000." Palmer Luckey says that's a lie foreign actors want you to believe. The Anduril founder posted on October 17, pushing back directly on extreme cost claims used to argue American manufacturing is impossible, a $37,000 iPhone, a $100,000 laptop. He called it "psy-ops," pushed either by foreign actors or by US companies that benefit from keeping the status quo exactly as it is. This isn't a new argument for him. Luckey has long said the hollowing out of US manufacturing wasn't an accident, it traces back to China's WTO entry, decades of offshoring incentives, and a deliberate shift toward a services-and-design economy. He's backed tariffs as one tool to rebuild a real market for domestic production under American labor and regulatory conditions. His own company is testing the theory. Anduril's Arsenal-1 facility in Ohio is built around high-volume manufacturing, designing weapons systems that ordinary car or tractor factories could help produce, instead of relying only on specialized, high-end processes that are slow and expensive to scale. His argument comes down to this: the barrier isn't that American manufacturing is physically impossible. It's cheap energy, enough skilled labor, and lower dependence on Chinese supply chains, pieces he says are fixable, not fantasy.

This is very true, and it represents a great opportunity for us here in Oklahoma. Relative to the rest of the country we have cheap power & land, and a skilled workforce with reasonable wages. Centrally located. America used to build things. Let’s Make Manufacturing Great Again!

@PalmerLuckey is bang on here. Decades ago, Apple began training the Chinese labor force to build iPhones. Over the years they trained 28,000,000 workers the skills necessary for precision manufacturing. Apple delivered the best of Western tools, dies, and toolmaking and diemaking equipment to China. That spawned the great Chinese precision manufacturing revolution. Read the great book "Apple in China: The Capture of the World's Greatest Company" by Patrick McGee. We, in the West, and certainly in the U.S., are fully capable of the best of precision manufacturing. We have just forgotten how, and we need to learn at pace and at scale. Palmer, Elon, and many other extraordinary entrepreneurs/engineers/builders have proved this, and they are racing to scale the solution, despite the naysayers. Build baby, build.

Palmer Luckey warns Europe will have a much tougher time adapting to the AI and automation revolution: “I think the European Union is going to have a really tough time.” 🇺🇸🇪🇺 “I think the European Union is going to have a really tough time. It’s hard to imagine an economy so dominated by international politics and labor politics allowing automation to transform its manufacturing economy. The United States is one of the few countries with the talent, the people, the political will, and the acceptance at a societal level that something like this is good. There are a lot of people in America who like Star Trek. A lot of people buy into the idea of technology and abundance. The same cannot be said of any European nation.” On the current trajectory, the European Union is in for an abrupt awakening. The recent pivot to increasing labor participation via immigration, instead of deregulation and technological innovation in order to push output and productivity higher is directly against something like automation. It’s this false prophecy of economic growth, that importing masses to participate in a slowing economy does not equate to producing meaningful output. They’re in desperate need of a directional pivot towards productivity and technological gains.

American-made products are not impossible. Stories about iPhones costing $37,000 or laptops costing $100,000 are psy-ops, sometimes pushed by foreign adversaries but more commonly by American corporations that want anything but an upset to the status quo.

For starters, the idea that these countries have so little debt (and thus, the implication is a stronger economy) compared to the US is laughable. The UK’s debt to GDP is 103% Canada’s is 110%. France’s is 118%. But perhaps more importantly, the US has such an enormous debt burden because it is the centerpiece of a global monetary regime, and that regime essentially drives America towards exporting Dollars to the rest of the world whether individuals Americans want to or not. That global demand for Dollars steadily destroys whatever fiscal prudence politicians would otherwise have (and they usually have very little to begin with). If the entire world demands your currency and are eager to buy assets issued in that currency, financing massive deficits becomes extraordinarily cheaper than it would be otherwise. This is one of the reasons why America has the world’s largest debt burden in nominal terms, but also possesses the world’s largest economy. Our debt load would have long since crushed many other countries, but instead, we are watching Canada, the UK, and France each grapple with essentially a full-scale recession all at the same time even as America’s economy continues to grow at a much faster pace than all three of them. Since 2008, the US has grown 2.4X faster than France, 1.9X faster than the UK, and 1.2X faster than Canada. And when you adjust for population, real GDP growth in the U.S. has been 26.5% since 2008, compared to just 10.1% for France, 8.8% for the UK, and 8% for Canada. So if these countries’ “socialist programs” were so great, why are their countries ALSO drowning in debt just like the US, and why have their economies barely grown in nearly 20 years?

You are an idiot. The U.S. is $40 trillion in debt because the federal government has toyed with socialist policies like Medicare, Medicaid, and Social Security to promote the so-called “general welfare.” Capitalism and the private sector have nothing to do with it.

I always tell people that best advertisement for US is to travel.

RT @smith_cade9: BUT ITS A BLUE WAVE, WORSE THAN 2006, AND THE BOTTOM IS FALLING OUT ON US!!!!

RT @orrdavid: Oil is $90. Even with all the damage to Russian energy. Iran has not been blockading the SoH for 7 months. Iran's ballist…

Dear Prime Minister Ambani, Please accept my humble apologies for not realizing that you are the real boss of India. Naturally, you would prefer to maintain your monopolistic exploitation of the great people of India, but would you nonetheless consider allowing Starlink to compete? There are many areas of India, as there are in all countries, with no Internet access, which denies children the opportunity for education and for small businesses the opportunity to sell their goods to a global market. Starlink would change their lives for the better. Thank you 🙏

I have two daughters, and I wouldn’t send either of them to study in China. When a government can invite an American scholar into the country and then turn around and jail him on espionage charges, parents should pay attention. Xi may want 100,000 American students in China. I’d rather see 100,000 more young Americans learning how to outbuild and outcompete the CCP right here at home.

Why are you lying? You know full well Trump said, immediately before this line, that higher gas prices are a small price to pay to keep our country safe from Iran nuking our cities. This is really, really bad. There are, unfortunately, a lot of people who will believe you.

BREAKING: TotalEnergies CEO Patrick Pouyanné says he prefers "a world of disruption rather than a peaceful world" because it creates more opportunities. He said big energy companies with global assets thrive during events like the ongoing Middle East war. TotalEnergies' profits have surged this year, as have Shell's and BP's, with all three making billions from trading amid the supply crunch caused by the Iran war.

POTUS second term has been one giant white pill for American excellence and sovereignty. We are innovating again. We are reindustrializing. The Space program is back. We are building. We are standing up to adversaries & out competing them. The big picture is filled with big Ws.

The problem looming over these riots is that France has a large population of young people who are immigrants or the children/grandchildren of immigrants that are simply not employable. They will not work and employers will not risk hiring them. They are not citizens in any meaningful sense, but an unassimilated third world horde, unemployable and ultimately ungovernable.

Imagine being a high school kid and you can't even enjoy the homecoming game because your government decided to import Somali tribal blood feuds into your community by the thousands.