How well is it going for America?

This well:

USA is beating China in the trade war

What president Trump is doing is a long overdue China reset. America has been in a fever dream, gutting it's middle and working class and building up China's. Remember, China is a communist country of 1.3 (ish) billion people. America has not just allowed them to become an economic superpower, they enabled it. They facilitated it. If the path the global economy was on had not been intercepted, America's decline would become inevitable, and China's rise to preeminent superpower would also be. 

Remember the Chines Communist Party are belligerent, aggressive and evil actors with a facade of fair minded global players. What president Trump has done was 100% necessary.  So how is it working?

Canada following behind America again?

Canada moving back to the right, right before the election. After the left's post-Trudeau euphoria blasted the Liberals back into first place in the polling, polls have done a U-turn. Hopefully a strong enough one that Pierre Poilievre wins big. We'll see. Canada needs some common sense back.

THIS IMBECILE DOES NOT SPEAK FOR CANADA

If Mark Carney wins the next election in Canada, we are lost.  We don't deserve to be a country anymore.  Take the hint America.

Let's Go Brandon's middle finger to America on the way out

Let's Go Brandon is only an environmentalists as far as it benefitted his pocketbook and/or power. He doesn't care about it, and clearly he doesn't care about America or average Americans. This is a middle finger to the entire country. Either that or some environmentalist(s) on his staff  did this in his stead because he can't even tell which we he's walking.

Energy independence? Screw it.  Affordable living? Screw it. Let's just make it as hard as possible for Trump to fix America.

20 days until the most important election of our lifetime

There are 20 days until the 2024 election. I try to avoid hyperbole as much as possible. I've heard people say this is the most important election of our lifetime ever since 2008.  I've tended to avoid that and regarded it as hyperbole.  I can think of times that I thought an election was the most important of our lifetime. Ronald Reagan in 1980 halting the real and imminent decline of America under Jimmy Carter was one such time. Another example was the dire need to stop Obama in 2012.  Stopping the election of Hillary Clinton in 2016 was critical, and as it turned out, so was the election of Donald Trump. Then 2020 re-electing Donald Trump was an imperative.  Twice, the most important elections of my lifetime ended with success and twice it ended in failure.  America is still here. So were they really the most important elections of our lifetime?

Yes, they were. But times change, and as they have changed, elections have become more important. Technology is on another level. Illegal immigration is out of control. There are high stakes wars in progress. The deep state is extending its tendrils into more and more of American life. Morality has decayed to an abysmal level. I now believe that this is indeed, the most important election of our lifetime. 

In 2020 America decided to roll the dice with Trump. Despite all of the bulwark of the deep state and Democrats and even many establishment Republicans lined up against him and his America first agenda, the roll of the dice paid off.  This election Trump is no longer a roll of the dice.  You know what you'll get; a better economy, America first, normalized immigration, a restored military, a  leaner and more efficient government and plenty more. Democrats want to define Trump by a phony January 6th narrative, but Americans should see through that.

Conversely if there is a roll of the dice candidate in this election it's Kamala Harris.  She's changed her opinions and policy positions more often than they change Let's Go Brandon's diapers.  You can't tell what she really believes, it's all lies designed to appeal to the voters in the room with her at that moment. There's no substance, no real conviction there.  Of course there is an inkling of what her real positions actually are. For example, it's almost certain she doesn't really own a Glock. Tim Walz; that dog don't hunt either.  Her policy positions will be similar to Let's Go Brandon's; her positions will be what she's told they will be.

In reality a Kamala Harris presidency is far worse than a roll of the dice. A Kamala Harris presidency is an outright bad bet. Americans may be willing to roll the dice but I cannot fathom Americans are willing to make a bad bet. That's especially true when there is a really good bet available to make.  You only make a bad bet out of sheer desperation. Americans are struggling in numbers too great, but Americans are not desperate.  The only people who are desperate, seem to be the Democrats and the Kamala Harris campaign.

As a non-American, but one cheering for American success, I urge you in the most strenuous possible way, go make a good bet.  I would also add that it extends beyond the presidency.  If you want Trump to make a difference, you need to vote for congressional representatives and senators who will support his agenda. If you don't he won't be able to do for America what needs to be done.

Trump's plan for the auto industry

The mainstream media is blasting Trump as insulting Detroit while in Detroit. That's not what happened.  He talked about the unfortunate deterioration of Detroit while in Detroit.  He was speaking facts.  In addition he laid out a plan to bring Detroit and the United States back into being a manufacturing powerhouse.  He talked about the auto industry specifically.

When you contrast that with the absolute decimation the half-baked plan Kamala Harris is spewing, there really is only one choice for president; Donald Trump.

Deep State Trauma for America

This is what deep spending Democrats have wrought upon America, a deep state so entrenched that is an existential threat to the continued existence of the country. It doesn't matter if those in positions of power within the beaurocracy are Democrats or not, they are self-serving, not America-serving.

Joe Rogan believes it's banana Republic time in America

It's really hard to say he's wrong because he's not. Speaking about the bogus conviction of Trump and the Democrats' lawfare as a political tool, Joe Rogan was not impressed with their antics. 

Via RCP:

"What's scary is how many Democrats are willing to allow this kind of stuff to happen. A lot of them are aware of it," Rogan said. "Especially if you wanted to look at past presidents with the same scrutiny... Imagine if, when Obama got into office, he decided to prosecute Dick Cheney and George Bush for crimes against humanity... Even what Obama did -- during the administration, they dropped a drone on a US citizen. No trial, no nothing. Boom."

"Trump didn't even go for Obama. He didn't go for Hillary. He could have tried them for things. Especially Hillary with the whole email thing, the deleting the emails."

"They're all crazy. That's what they don't want you to know. It's like sluts that are always talking bad about other girls for being sluts," he quipped.

..."If you change the way people are allowed to go after political candidates, and you change the way you're allowed to silence and imprison your candidates, then we're like Mexico. We're just not assassinating people yet. We're like a third-world country. We're like a banana republic," Rogan said.

 

America, forget not your history, or who you are

I'm a Canadian, living in Canada.  I like my country, but I don't love it.  I certainly don't like our current facsimile of a leader. I do love what the United States is supposed to be, and throughout most of it's history, has been.  In the United States you have your own facsimile of a leader at the moment. One who can barely stand, who can barely speak, barely walk, and clearly barely think, is no leader.

America has the capacity, as a country, of unparalleled greatness. If that greatness is not eroded by the people who would have you forget your history.

Here is one small sample of what it means to be American.  This used to be celebrated. It should be celebrated again, instead of your pronouns:

So funny that it's not funny

The look on the guy's face says it all perfectly.

American lithium

A very large lithium deposit in America, just in time for the battery powered car market, is not a coincide but there's more to it geopolitically than just that.

President Trump talks education in America

I will leave this to president Trump himself.

America's French Revolution moment

This video has a lot of things in it that are arguably incorrect, but also a lot, a whole lot, of truths.  It argues that America is nearing it's own French Revolution:

Is it inevitable? No, but it does seem to be on the current trajectory.

Canada, a cautionary tale for America

I know that I have been posting a lot more about Canada lately than normal, especially given that this is a blog about American politics.  But in Canada lies an important cautionary tale for America: DON'T DO THIS.  Two great lessons from Andrew Scheer, the former leader of the Conservative party of Canada: firstly on crazy liberal spending leading to inflation, and secondly on the myth of the carbon tax.

Let me repeat America, DO NOT DO THIS!

Last time: DO NOT DO THIS!

Two proposals for America

As a non-American (I'm Canadian, and it used to be a good second choice to America), it boggles my mind how an American could not appreciate how great America is (or at least, can be).  Bill Whittle tackles that in the first of two modest proposals he discusses in the video below.

America finally stops discrimination against Asians

But racism!!!

More government weaponized: president Trump

From Ray Epps to the next phony president Trump indictments, the government has been weaponized by the left and the self-serving bureaucrats and America is worse for it.  Here Benny Johnson shares Tucker Carlson's recent Twitter 'podcast' on why they want Trump so badly. It's bad.

America over today?

No. I don't think America is over yet.  I don't think this political stunt in NY state to arrest president Trump will succeed, not by a long shot.  But the political implications are still bad.  

Mark Dice expounds:

American tech crunch

 Peter Zeihan discusses the onshoring of tech jobs, which seems to be coming.