Monthly Archives: March 2018

The main issue is joined and the globalist spokeslugs are howling.  Mostly senators, but a few congresslugs also. You can tell by their concern for every other country but this one.

Steel and aluminum tariffs.

“Trump tweeted Thursday that many U.S industries, including steel and aluminum “have been decimated by decades of unfair trade and bad policy with countries from around the world. We must not let our country, companies and workers be taken advantage of any longer. We want free, fair and SMART TRADE!”   CBS News

I hear no howling from the working class.

This is the centerpoint to why the opposition to Trump is so fierce, it is a threatened shift in trillions of  dollars of value in investment portfolios. The US was to be … Continue reading →

really good insights on trumptweets

Very nice work on what the heck is going on. Random tweets or infowar battlefield preparation? You be the judge. Robes optional.

If there’s one little shibboleth about capitalism that we can toss in the trash, it’s that capitalism is the enemy of Marxism and a counter-balance to Leftist politics. The idea was that capitalism, because it supposedly was driven primarily by the rational instinct to make money, was resistant to political forces. If there’s a customer need, companies would fulfill that need regardless of political opinions, because there’s money to be made. We’re all finding out in the 21st century just how wrong that assumption was. Adam Smith apparently underestimated the strength of political passions vis a vis commerce (and Karl Marx apparently was wrong about his philosophies not meshing with the pursuit of wealth). We now see examples every single day of corporations metaphorically leaving money on the … Continue reading →

It’s that time of the week again, when we connect for another town hall meeting in the Village of the Darned.  We will try to start off @ 730PM unless someone posts an earlier time.

Jam a topic in the comments below and let people read up if you like.

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