You’d be hard-pressed to find a proper progressive who dislikes how China gets things done. Xi commands it, and everyone else, including the pretend legislature, lines up to make it happen. Failure could mean death and good fortune to someone needing an organ replacement.

China, China, Chi-Nah!

Democrats and their water carriers are forever telling us China is building and installing all that wind and solar we should, too. We must be like them, but China is also building nuclear power plants at a record pace.

To wean their country off imported oil and gas, and in the hope of retiring dirty coal-fired power stations, China’s leaders have poured money into wind and solar energy. But they are also turning to one of the most sustainable forms of non-renewable power. Over the past decade China has added 37 nuclear reactors, for a total of 55, according to the International Atomic Energy Agency, a un body. During that same period America, which leads the world with 93 reactors, added two.

Facing an ever-growing demand for energy, China isn’t letting up. It aims to install between six and eight nuclear reactors each year. Some officials seem to think that target is low. The country’s nuclear regulator says China has the capacity to add between eight and ten per year. The State Council (China’s cabinet) approved the construction of ten in 2022. All in all, China has 22 nuclear reactors under construction, many more than any other country.

And not to just be disagreeable with The Economist, but I do not believe for one second that China is building Nucelar to get away from dirty coal. I think it is building nuclear because its military-industrial complex needs more power, and dirty coal isn’t enough. I also believe the wind and solar are just window dressing to saddle idiot Western elites with unreliable energy when the time comes to take over the world – financially, commercially, culturally, and militarily, if necessary.

China is a communist nation. They don’t give a sh!t about the climate cult’s dogma except to feed it because it advances their geo-political goals. Everywhere around the world, they open mines and extract resources. They destroy the environment at the expense of indigenous populations. But the American Left loves them! So, how about we love some new nuclear power? That net-zero fantasy is impossible, but it is much more possible with Nucelar.

I’m sure they’ve streamlined the bureaucratic process for permitting and construction, and in China, thanks to all the coal-powered energy capacity they created, steel is likely cheap and abundant. You can’t make steel without burning coal. Their economy has been built to build back better.

Meanwhile, given the current economic conditions, America would have a hard time competing with China on energy infrastructure, but what possible excuse could the Progs have for not following China’s lead on Nuclear Energy? Do they want China to be stronger? Do they want America to be a weak country that can’t compete? Are they loving the idea of brownouts and blackouts and making everything we make and do cost more because of expensive fuel and electric rates so our products can’t compete?

Shouldn’t we be building more Nucelar to keep up?

I’m sure it will be amusing to watch the Left make excuses for not following China’s Nuclear push but how funny is that The Economist, a once reliable source for global news, clings bitterly to the idea that China is doing this to achieve Net zero by 2060 without suggesting we should too?

Or that the only net zero that interests the Chinese government is net-zero resistance to their political and military power.

China is building nuclear plants; we should, too. Lots of them – starting now. And you’ve no excuse. You can’t achieve your emissions cuts BS without them, nor can you excuse away why it is okay for China but not America.

But I know you’ll try.

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On the heels of research that reported a 40% increase in COVID infections among regular mask users, the public masking menace has taken another shot to the McNuggets. This time, from a past that reinforces what we’re seeing now. Masks make matters worse.

Not to beat a dead horse dewormer narrative, but before the politicization of mask compliance and mandates, there was a respected body of evidence that was affirmed by science and scientists. Public masking was useless against the flu virus. But the Chinese do it, so Marxists decided that we should too. With few exceptions, the political and public health classes failed the test. They chose Marxism over science and rapidly embraced the totalitarian police state mentality about enforcement. It’s not a good look, and there’s no shortage of words on these pages about that, but our objection wasn’t just political. The science hasn’t changed, and more recent research affirms what UK Heath Minister Dame Jenny Harries has been saying since March 2020.

Professor Dame Jenny Harries, now the head of the UK Health Security Agency, explained that the policy wasn’t based on scientific reality and had the effect of instilling a “false sense of security,” convincing people that they would reduce their risk of becoming infected if they wore a mask.

She also told the inquiry that government advice on how to make a mask out of bits of cloth and old t-shirts was wholly “ineffective.”

Whatever your position was or is on public masking or reasonable exemptions from it, the problem (wholly aligning with what was passed for despotic mandates) was the false sense of efficacy and the increased likelihood of harm. While Norweigan researchers found that regular masking resulted in up to a 40% rise in COVID-19 infections – quite the opposite result of the stated purpose – there are numerous risks unrelated to flu that come with blocking your airway. But masked meant compliant, and new revelations about old science continue to damage the brand.

We’ll always have flu, and it will always be nasty for vulnerable populations, but if you can’t get everyone else to wear your gang colors, then the tyranny needs a new groove.

The WEFers, the UN, and its WHOs in Public Health Whoville need to find a replacement or a way to counteract the rise in “science” that contradicts their mask messaging. And while it doesn’t take much to get a local lib-majority council to impose one even now, if you’ve been paying attention, mask-wearing is less popular than the latest COVID booster. Useless Social Distancing is non-existent, and few, if any, give you the side-eye if you sneeze or cough in public.

“Bless you” is more likely than what we had from 2020-2022. Lane Nazis with hands shaking from rage, pointing at arrows on the floor in a direction opposite the one you travel. No arrows, no pointing, no angry eyes above even more useless cloth masks, but both fear and tyranny still lurk in the minds of weak men and women—Tin-pot local dictators on both sides of the aisle who keep running for and getting elected to office.

If we want mask mandates dead, those folks will need to be shown the door. Still, much like the complacency over meaningful election integrity reform outside what the left calls the radical right, that’s not happening to scale. Until it does, we can’t pronounce the policy doomed.

As much as we’d like to do that.

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Hello, Friends of Freedom. I hope your Thanksgiving was everything you desired and more. This week I want to examine the patriarch Joseph in scripture and his prevalent role in leading a secular nation as a man of faith. His historical account is found in Genesis 39-41.

He was a man of dreams and dream interpretation. It is most likely he served under two Pharaohs ( Sesostris III and Amenemhet III), having lived in Egypt for over 70 years.

He was sold into slavery by the betrayal of his brothers, who were jealous of him and his dreams. Hence, when he came to visit them per his father Jacob’s request, they commented, “Behold the dreamer cometh.”

The reason I am mentioning this event is that it shows the role of spiritual guidance (faith) can have in literally saving the entire nation (much of the world) during a most severe famine.

Pharaoh had a dream that perplexed him, and it was confirmed by having the same dream two times, once with cattle and once with grain. He was deeply troubled knowing that the dream had significant meaning for him and his reign.

The point I am making is that the nation was on a collision course with destruction, and there were no political leaders with answers to the cataclysmic event that was going to happen. But God, in His sovereignty, had prepared an answer. The famine would be preceded by seven years of plenty, followed by seven years of certain death and starvation.

Joseph had the wisdom to address the problem and founded granaries to store the grain during the seven years of abundance, thereby saving not only the nation of Egypt but the nation of Israel as well.

God still gives dreams in answer to problems today, and he guides us through dreams as well.

Job 33:15-18 says, He speaks in dreams, in visions of the night, when deep sleep falls on people as they lie in their beds. He whispers in their ears and terrifies them with warnings. He makes them turn from wrong; he keeps them from pride. He protects them from the grave. from crossing over the river of death.”

Another political figure, Pontius Pilate, during the crucifixion of Christ, was warned by a dream his wife had. She encouraged him to have nothing to do with Christ’s crucifixion. Hence, he washed his hands the day of the trial to show his innocence from the deed.

While I have not been able to find in historical writings detailing any nighttime dreams the founding fathers had, I am convinced they dreamed of a better world and sought to create a nation that would allow people to dream and live out their dreams in a free society unravished by government control of their lives. From the Puritans, who saw America as the New Jerusalem and a Shining City on a Hill, to our civil rights declarations, America is synonymous with a Dream!

The American dream, if you will, is ensconced in the ideas found in the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution of the United States.

The actual term itself, “American Dream,” was hinted at throughout our history, and James Truslow Adams, the author of The Epic America, 1931, used the phrase American Dream to show how people were moving away from it.

The dream of America in the hearts of our founding fathers was the answer to the world’s demise and destruction as they saw it through the lens of studying all the known historical governments of recorded history.

They felt called to steward this dream in documents that would stand as long as those who have the courage to apply the lessons learned from history and continue to enforce the ideas of liberty and justice for all.

Dreams are without prejudice. They include the highest and best for everyone.

In closing, I pray we can keep the American dream alive by realizing sometimes God gives dreams to save mankind from sure destruction, and may we have the humility to accept them in whatever vessel he chooses to deliver them.

Until Next Week…

Allen

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I’m not sure we’ve said this often enough for long enough, but Joe Biden will not be the Democrats’ candidate come November 2024. Even the Democrat-Press is warming its’ bony hands over that fire, so the conversation naturally turns to who the DNC will pick to displace Uncle Joe.

Inevitable isn’t too strong of a word for his departure, but does he even realize?

Herr Biden wasn’t fit in 2020, and it’s been downhill since then (for him and us), but the list of potential replacements reads like a horror story you tell hard-working Americans if there are any left after what Democrats have done to the Economy. Hillary Clinton! She doesn’t want to campaign or even do the work. It’s just a check box on her bucket list. But rumor has it she’d take the bit in her cackling mouth and run the nation further into the ground.

Michelle Obama is another name I hear a lot. It has been reported that she hated the Clintons, the Bidens, the White House, and Washington, DC. But she loved the prestige, the money, the access, the vacations, the entourage, and the fandom. Michelle-O wants to be queen, not President. The latter is way too much work. Even with Barry (likely) offering to do all the behind-the-scenes policy lifting through proxies for term number four, I doubt she’d be down for that public-profile struggle. And I’ve long since argued she is not on any list to take the reins from Stumblin’ Joe. So, why was she on Air Force One with the Clintons and Bidens and no one else?

The decision for Michelle Obama to take a plane alone to campaign for Joe Biden is seen as a powerful statement about her involvement in his presidential run.

Though she has denied any plans to run for president herself, Democrats are concerned about Joe Biden’s prospects going into 2024 elections.

It is easy to speculate. A handful of political elites on a plane will have discussed things that matter to them and “their” party, but are they talking about replacing Joe to his face? A better question is, why wasn’t Barry Obama on that plane? They are off to pay their respects to a former Democrat first lady. We’ve got Billery, the Bidens, and no Barry. Does he have another chef to paddle board?

If anyone has an opinion worth hearing on the Dem side about who can carry on Barry’s Legacy without Bidening it Up, it’s the Bamster. But he’s otherwise occupied. And I’m sure Michelle is at least as capable as any Democrat First Lady of thinking they got elected and can meddle in a nation’s business. But what’s so odd about a gaggle of “first ladies” flying together for the funeral of one of their own? Bill and Joe had to go; you can’t leave either alone for too long.

Perhaps I’m just too convinced Michelle has no interest in the nonsense that comes with that. She has her fortune. She is part of history, feted, paraded, and commands massive sums for almost any appearance (money doesn’t launder itself). Surely, there is some other Democrat capable of being a better president than Joe Biden, an admittedly low bar.

My money is still on California Gov. Nuisance. He wants the job and could have easily posed a successful primary challenge. But is he amendable to being manipulated by Obama’s proxies? Does he need to be? Newsom is about as Marxist as they come. They are probably on the same page, which would get him the Obama seal of approval.

And Michelle? I think she was catching a ride to Rosalyn Carter’s Funeral, but selling the transition to another candidate mid-campaign might have come up while Joe was sleeping. Why, exactly, will Joe be put out to pasture? How to make it work to a populist advantage?

(*)“Shot in the arm” used to have a positive connotation, which might not be valid anymore.

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A controversial initiative by the Biden Administration proposes to permit the importation into the US of fresh beef from Paraguay. Many industry stakeholders protest that this will expose American agriculture to the risks of foot-and-mouth disease, with potentially devastating socioeconomic consequences.

Climate warriors increasingly target cows as destructive, and now Biden risks the entire US cow (and pig) industries to improve diplomatic relations with corrupt Paraguay. The economic risks are mammoth.

As the COVID pandemic illustrated, pathogens do not abide by governmental regulations and easily transcend porous borders. Foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) is generally non-fatal to humans but is absolutely devastating to livestock – especially pigs and cows, which are more vulnerable. Yet the US Department of Agriculture’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) under Joe Biden has finalized regulations to open US markets to Paraguayan beef imports despite that nation’s history of FMD and rampant corruption.

American farming industry interests are unanimously up in arms against this plan, claiming there is no current data on Paraguayan safety protocols, and that animals from other countries not subject to oversight will end up in Paraguay’s beef stream. The National Cattlemen’s Beef Association (NCBA) asserts “… that the conclusions drawn in the proposed rule are based on outdated information that does not adequately calculate the risk to U.S. consumers and the U.S. cattle herd. The United States Cattlemen’s Association and American Farm Bureau Federation also strongly oppose the rule change.”

Those risks are profound. A recent FMD outbreak in Indonesia suspected to have been caused by an illegal animal importation devastated that country’s economy and food supply. A 2001 outbreak in the UK cost that economy an estimated $20 billion. An outbreak in the United States would threaten the nation’s 90 million dairy and beef cows as well as its swine and other livestock industries. FMD also impacts wildlife species, yet further causing damage and complicating eradication efforts.

The United States has not recorded a case of FMD since 1929 and has instituted rigorous prevention practices to safeguard its cattle industry. The disease begins with a high fever, and then develops into sores in the mouth and on hooves. FMD is highly contagious, requiring intensive countermeasures including vaccination and the slaughter of both infected and healthy animals. This is a disease that can wipe out whole industries overnight and promises to do so again.

The global presence in livestock of FMD is estimated to be 77%; the disease is enzootic (endemic) in South America, which is why Paraguay has struggled to control outbreaks for decades. The chief cause of outbreaks is usually illegally transported animals or inconsistent compliance with farm biosecurity measures, which makes corrupt Paraguay a particularly risky agricultural trade partner for an FMD-free mega-economy like America. One almost wonders if the seeds of a livestock crisis are being deliberately sown by recklessly importing dodgy meats against the cacophony of industry voices opposing the move.

Paraguay’s government enjoys a dubious reputation as an extremely corrupt cabal. President Biden, eager to establish himself as a foe of corruption (despite increasing scrutiny of his own conduct), has pushed hard to welcome Paraguay to the commerce table. The fear is that Biden’s crusade against foreign corruption may irrevocably corrupt the US food supply. As Foreign Policy noted last year:

“… corruption remains rampant, and government efforts to combat it continue to be underwhelming. Investigations have suffered setbacks; judicial processes have languished; transnational criminal activities in Paraguay have spiked; the Biden administration has now homed in on Paraguay to showcase its fight against global corruption.”

Trusting Paraguay to properly regulate its beef industry, prevent smuggling, and implement safety protocols is a bridge too far for US stakeholders. But it is exactly that rickety bridge onto which Joe Biden is dragging American consumers and agriculture. If the plan is to eradicate all cows, importing sketchy products from racketeers is the globalist way to go. Then, Americans would have no choice but to dine on insect burgers or synthetic beef grown in labs.

If FMD infects the US biosphere, the impacts on the economy and global food supply will be swift and far-reaching. The stakes for importing Paraguayan steaks are astronomical. The gamble is simply too great.

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In the dynamic world of gaming, the slot development industry stands out as a vibrant and lucrative sector. However, success in this arena is not solely dependent on the creativity and innovation of game design; it also hinges on effective financial planning. The bankroll, often the lifeblood of any business venture, plays a crucial role in sustaining and growing a slot development studio. 

In this blog, we will delve into the intricate art of balancing a bankroll for slot development ventures, exploring key aspects of financial planning that can spell the difference between thriving success and unforeseen setbacks.

Before delving into financial intricacies, it is essential to comprehend the unique challenges and opportunities inherent in the slot development landscape. The industry is highly competitive, driven by rapidly evolving technology, player preferences, and regulatory environments. Successful slot studios must not only create captivating games but also navigate a complex web of market demands, compliance requirements, and technological advancements.

Here are the key components of financial planning:

One of the cornerstones of successful slot development is continuous innovation. Allocating a substantial portion of the bankroll to research and development ensures that the studio stays ahead of the curve, introducing new features, themes, and gameplay mechanics that resonate with players. A robust R&D budget facilitates the exploration of cutting-edge technologies, enabling the integration of virtual reality, augmented reality, or artificial intelligence to enhance the gaming experience.

Skilled and creative professionals are the driving force behind captivating slot online games. A portion of the bankroll should be reserved for attracting top talent in game design, graphics, sound engineering, and software development. Additionally, fostering a positive work environment and offering competitive salaries are crucial for retaining key team members, ensuring continuity and stability in the creative process.

Even the most innovative and well-designed slot games can go unnoticed without effective marketing. Allocating funds for strategic marketing campaigns across digital platforms, trade shows, and industry events is essential for building brand awareness and attracting players. A dynamic marketing strategy should be flexible enough to adapt to changing market trends and player preferences.

The gaming industry is subject to stringent regulatory frameworks in various jurisdictions. A portion of the bankroll should be earmarked for legal expenses associated with ensuring compliance with local and international regulations. This includes obtaining licenses, adhering to responsible gaming practices, and addressing any legal challenges that may arise.

Keeping pace with technological advancements is vital for staying competitive. Investments in robust infrastructure and up-to-date technology are necessary to support the development, testing, and deployment of sophisticated slot games. Cloud computing, cybersecurity measures, and scalable development environments should be considered as part of the technology budget.

Unforeseen challenges and market uncertainties are inevitable. Setting aside a contingency fund within the bankroll provides a safety net for unexpected expenses, economic downturns, or sudden shifts in market dynamics. This financial buffer ensures that the studio can weather storms and remain resilient in the face of uncertainties.

In the intricate world of slot development ventures, the bankroll is more than just a financial resource; it is the foundation upon which creative visions are brought to life. Strategic financial planning is the compass that guides slot studios through the dynamic landscape, helping them navigate challenges and seize opportunities. By allocating resources wisely to research and development, talent acquisition, marketing, legal compliance, technology, and contingency planning, slot development ventures can achieve a delicate balance in their bankroll management, fostering sustained growth and success in this ever-evolving industry.

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The Summer of Love in 2020 grew out of the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis and the elevation of Black Lives Matter. Protests, violence, and destruction filled the evening news. Some of our bigger cities were taken over and destroyed by gangs in the name of ending Racism and violence towards Blacks. It was violence to solve violence, and it was anything but a love fest. It was ugly and an embarrassment for America.

The radical Left supported this movement and promoted BLM while simultaneously demanding the defunding of the Police. Prominent Democrats, including Kamala Harris, raised money and supported the Freedom Fund to bail out protestors arrested for their violent, destructive acts. There are strong indicators that the Left may be laying the groundwork for another Summer of Love. This time, the reason for protests is not Racism but something much more dangerous in the Democrat’s minds. The possibility of Donald Trump successfully beating Joe Biden in November and this Hitler-like dictator reentering the White House demands civil unrest to draw attention to the danger. This call to action is the subliminal message we are hearing and reading in some of the messages from the Left.

Here are a few comments from our President who promised to return civility to the White House. Joe Biden claimed to be President for all Americans. Joe was committed to healing America. You be the judge as to the healing properties of these words from our President.

Donald Trump and the MAGA Republicans represent an extremism that threatens the very foundations of our Republic.

Donald Trump and the MAGA Republicans are determined to spread anger, hate, and division

This MAGA threat is a threat to the brick and mortar of our Democratic institutions.

We have Liz Cheney, whose constituents voted her out of office for turning on Donald Trump and taking an integral part in the made-for-TV January 6 hearings. She labeled Trump a fascist who, like Hitler, needed to be outed. She urges Americans not to downplay the danger that is Donald Trump and his sleepwalk to a dictatorship of the United States. This belief was echoed in the Washington Post, where Robert Keagan wrote, “Opinion-A Trump Dictatorship is increasingly inevitable. We should stop pretending.”

These people are evidence that Trump Derangement Syndrome is alive and thriving. These people are a dog-whistle call to action to prevent Donald Trump from overthrowing the country. These people are calling out rogue extremists to do what they don’t feel the American voter can do. They want Donald Trump taken out and his followers put down so it can never breathe life again. Donald Trump became a movement when he rode the Golden Escalator into the 2016 Presidential Election. He is a danger to the Swamp that is the Washington Machine. Trump is not one of them and must be put down like a rabid dog. That is how dangerous the Democrats are. Their policies have been exposed as destructive for all Americans, and they know it is no longer a messaging problem but a philosophy problem. They see the President’s ratings falling as Trump’s rises and know they will lose a legitimate election in 2024. Their dire situation requires a drastic reaction, which is what they call for. This is a smoldering situation and should make us all uneasy as we enter 2024.

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The recent election of Argentinian President Javier Milei is a political earthquake as big as the election of President Donald Trump in 2016. The anti-establishment movements in Argentina and the United States share remarkable similarities. Comparable movements have also been showing up in Italy, Greece, Finland, Holland, France, Germany, Hungary, and other countries.

The establishment model of high taxes, expensive welfare systems, lax migration enforcement, and large (often corrupt) bureaucracies has been the dominant Western pattern since the end of World War II.

Throughout the world, people are finding that the system no longer delivers on prosperity, safety, accountability, and protection of national interests.

Milei’s election is one more example of the popular repudiation of the traditionally dominant establishment.

Argentinians decided that their economy was a disaster, their government was out of control, and corruption was rampant. So, gambling on a new, bold, aggressive reformer made sense.

The inflation rate in Argentina is approaching 150 percent a year. Compare this to the current 3.2 percent annualized rate in the United States (which peaked at 9.1 percent last year). You can see why Argentinians would be unhappy. If our inflation rate increased 50-fold, the level of pain and public anger would be almost unimaginable.

Argentina has been badly governed since the 1946 election of Juan Peron (of “Evita” fame). Argentinians have gotten used to enduring economic and political conditions that would lead to a massive response in the United States. Now, Argentinians are clearly tired of failure.

As Eric Lyman wrote for Just the News:

“Like former President Donald Trump, the coiffed Milei is a one-time television personality and political outsider who rode into office on a wave of discontent with the political establishment.

“He has promised radical solutions to entrenched problems (he wants to dollarize the Argentinian economy, for example, and says he will privatize companies and dramatically slash government spending, illustrating that goal using a chainsaw on the campaign trail.)

“Milei has like Trump also suggested the country’s political elite has left behind the country and has questioned the integrity of its election system.”

Sonia Cavallo Runde is a lecturer at The Catholic University of America and co-author of “Argentina’s Economic Reforms of the 1990s in Contemporary and Historical Perspective.” Runde explained the dramatic scope of change Milei’s election represents for Argentina:

“Milei has a popular mandate, ideological clarity and, for now, the political will to overturn Argentina’s decadence.

“Argentines have awakened from 20 years of populism… Those 50 and older, have positive memories of the stable 90s, when Argentina enjoyed a decade of price stability, was receiving investments, open to trade, exporting industrial and agricultural goods, and, of course, enjoying macroeconomic stability and growth.

“The young subjected to 2 decades of Kirchnerist propaganda were surprisingly enthusiastic supporters of Milei who explained in the campaign that there is no prosperity or growth without free markets and that there is no stability without fiscal balance.

“Milei’s credibility stems from the simplicity of his statements. The message got through, 55% of the Argentine population gave Milei a mandate for change. Now the challenge is to create the political consensus to implement the tough but needed changes.”

Indeed, Milei’s direct language is in the tradition of Margaret Thatcher, Ronald Reagan, and Trump. He argues, “Socialism is always and everywhere a violent, murderous, and impoverishing phenomenon.”

Barry Casselman captured Milei’s uniqueness as a political personality in his newsletter. Like Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, Milei appeared in the political stage out of nowhere. As Casselman wrote, Milei is also “difficult to categorize:”

“He is a social conservative, an economic libertarian, and has been called an ‘anarcho-capitalist.’

“He admires Donald Trump, the late Hasidic leader [Rebbe Menachem Mendel Schneersohn], the U.S.A., Israel, and free markets.

“He is pro-life and anti-climate extremism. He opposes current Argentine government regulations, and wants to replace the nearly bankrupt Argentine peso with the U.S. dollar. …

“With his trademark uncombed hair and leather jacket, he is a charismatic speaker who has a huge following among working class Argentinians.”

Milei’s rise has been amazing to watch. But he should take note: The establishment he is fighting will almost certainly defend itself with every tool available – including breaking the law.

It happened to President Trump, and it can happen to Milei, too.

Like Trump, Milei will discover that winning is just the beginning.

Newt Gingrich | RealClear Wire

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Joe Biden was in Colorado this week to push his Bidenomics Program and how it has the American economy on the right track. For a man who grew up on the railroad, the economy may be on the right track but is heading in the wrong direction.

You can stand behind the microphone, as his Press Secretary does daily, and tell stories and call them facts, but the American people are tuned in to this Biden Gaslighting. The truth is not on Joe’s side, but he refuses to give up the lie called Bidenomics.

Marie Harf appeared on the Faulkner Focus this week, and I know as a Socialist, she has to, but even a Radical Leftie must know she is not being truthful. She praised Biden for lower Gas and food prices than last year, but that is comparing today’s costs against the peak of Biden’s Inflation. That is like telling Mrs. Lincoln to hang in. The second act will be better. The latest statistics indicate the increased cost of living for the average family is more than $11,000 annually, more than what it cost in 2021. That increase is forcing families to use savings, early withdrawal from retirement accounts, or credit cards to make ends meet. That is why Biden’s approval ratings are mired in the 30s, which are not numbers to campaign on.

Biden was touting the 14 million jobs he created but failed to say 12 million people are going back to work after the pandemic. The majority of the net gain in new jobs are Government jobs and do not indicate economic growth. Biden talks about his brilliant mandate to have all Americans in electric vehicles in the same week he received notice of 3,900 car dealerships who will not back Biden’s EV car push. The car manufacturers are losing billions, there are 16-18 months of EV inventory sitting in new car lots, and 25% of all car dealerships now refuse EVs from the factories. One thing that Joe Biden forgot, or never knew, was you cannot dictate change on the American consumer. Change has to be their idea, and electric vehicles are not on many wish lists. Those good-paying union jobs Biden takes credit for in 2023 may become record layoffs in 2024.

It is very concerning for me that the truth and facts no longer seem to matter. As Fox Contributor Lisa Booth aptly wrote on X, we now live in a “post-truth era.” The Right has been fighting the team of the Left and the media. In the past, it may have been a difference of opinion or interpretation of an issue. Now, it is a case of the facts versus a narrative. Folks on the Left feel empowered to stray from the truth because what they say will be supported by the mainstream media. As we see every day from Karine Jean-Pierre and Gavin Newsom in his recent debate with Ron DeSantis, a statement does not have to be factual as long as it ends with the words; that’s a fact. It is as if those few words give indisputable credibility to their message, and then the people who get their news from these sources are getting inaccurate news.

We see thousands of naive people marching and demonstrating worldwide against Israel and for Palestine/Hamas. There is no such country as Palestine, and they refuse to believe the horrendous acts performed by Hamas on October 7th. They have been given a false narrative, bought it, and took to the streets in protest. It is easy to see how these same people will fall victim to the lies of the Left and think the country is in good hands with Biden/Harris. God bless us if this plan works.

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