Sir, I think you're giving them too much credit. I have a theory. Please hear me out: I noticed long ago that the Left will pass by a real problem, such as real racial homicides or abuses of police power, to wax indignant over an imaginary problem, such a career criminal in custody dying of drug overdose. Even when the race of all parties involved fir the Leftist "narrative," as when racist White officers abuse and kill a Black suspect, if the crime actually happened, and the accused person is actually guilty, the Left will ignore it, preferring to accuse the innocent. They only protest crimes that never happened, and wax indignant over problems that don't exist. Moreover, when selecting and imaginary crime to protest, or an innocent man to accuse, they never select a likely crime or believable accusation. Instead they will propound pure absurdities as when NASCAR driver Bubba Wallace alleged that an ordinary garage door pull was a racist noose, prompting 15 special agents of the FBI to investigate. Obviously, no race car driver who has lived around cars professionally is unaware of what a garage door looks like, or what the various means to open and shut garage doors might be. The accusation was obviously stupid and obviously unbelievable from the beginning. So it is with most such Leftist accusations and causes. No one actually believes a man in wig and dress is a woman. No one actually believes a baby in the womb is not alive. My theory? These things are stupid and absurd on purpose. They are as unbelievable as possible on purpose. As when a criminal gang insists a new member commit a heinous crime in order to prevent the new member from repudiating his loyalty, so here. A gullible chump fooled by a believable lie might well change his mind once the truth is known. But a freak who sees the lie is unbelievable, but loves the Left far more than he loves the truth far more than he loves any sense of honor or decency, will never change his mind. Truth be damned. The freak is more useful to the left than the chump. Once a man has publicly supported a blatant lie, and cruelly and sadistically accused and slandered the perfectly innocent, he cannot back down. He cannot change his mind. What he said is unforgivable. Acosta will never find work in any right-wing news source, or even among any decent people, because the lies he tells are too obvious to be believed. We know he knows that we know he is lying. So he can never stop. His loyalty is certain. So it is with all true believers of the left. They're all Jim Acosta.

DISNEY SAYS THE LAYOFFS ARE EXTREMELY PAINFUL. SO WAS THE TICKET. When I was a kid, my parents trusted one company without reading the fine print. If it said Disney on the box, it went in the VCR. No research, no screening, no checking a parents guide. The Little Mermaid. Beauty and the Beast. Aladdin. The Lion King. My mother put them on and went to make dinner because she knew exactly what was coming out of that television. That trust was the most valuable asset the company ever owned. It was not the castle. It was not the mouse. It was a mother in a kitchen who did not have to check. Then they spent it. They decided the movies were a place to deliver messages instead of stories, and parents noticed. Even Bob Iger admitted in 2023 that the studio had lost sight of entertaining first. You do not usually get the CEO confessing. Then they priced the family out of the parks. This year, a single day at Magic Kingdom crossed 200 dollars for the first time in its 55 year history. Peak days hit 209. That is up roughly 38 percent since 2020. And waiting in line, the one thing that used to be free, became a product. FastPass cost nothing. It became Genie Plus at 15 dollars in 2021. Now the Multi Pass runs up to 45 a person at Magic Kingdom and the Premier Pass runs as high as 449. Four hundred and forty nine dollars. Per person. To skip lines at a park you already paid to enter. A family of four can spend more than 800 dollars on admission alone for one day, before a churro. Then they let ESPN and ABC drift. ESPN went from roughly 100 million homes in 2011 to about 55 million, and the answer was to raise the streaming price to 31.99. And now the president of the company says the layoffs are extremely painful. Three hundred more this week, mostly in HR and IT, after a thousand in April. She says technology set its sights on their business. No. Technology did not empty those park lines and those living rooms. The pricing did. The lectures did. The slow decision to treat the family as a wallet instead of a guest did. Every brand that tries this learns the same lesson. Bud Light offended the people who bought it and lost its spot as the best selling beer in America. Pepsi raised prices until people stopped buying the volume, and an activist investor showed up. Nike walked away from the stores its customers shopped in, chased margin, and watched the stock fall by more than half. McDonald's took out the playgrounds, raised the prices, and is now spending 8.5 billion dollars to figure out where the families went. Annoy your customers, price them out, and sell them something that offends the people who can still afford you. It ends the same way every single time. So here is the call. Your wallet is a vote and you cast it every week. Spend it with companies that remember who they work for. Be the mom in the kitchen again, just with more questions this time. They built that trust over sixty years. They can earn it back the same way they lost it. One family at a time. 🦋

The Greatest Story Never Told - Trump’s economy has produced all-time record household income and an all-time record-low poverty rate. Now the Atlanta Fed predicts 5 percent GDP growth. You’d think somebody would notice. According to the latest from the Census Bureau, the poverty rate just hit its lowest level in U.S. history. Read that again. That’s not all. America just also hit its highest real median household income in history. The Atlanta Fed estimates that the economy is growing at an incredible 5 percent annual rate. That’s after years of Democrats promising us that 1.6 percent was “the new normal.” It’s also after barely more than a year and a half of Trump back in office. It gets even better. Child poverty fell to just 13.4 percent, the lowest official rate ever recorded. Hispanic poverty fell to a record low 13.9 percent. Real weekly earnings for blue-collar manufacturing workers are up 4.1 percent since January 2025; construction workers’ earnings are up an even higher 5 percent. It’s kind of a miracle. And it’s gathering steam. Yet to hear the Enemedia — and some conservatives — talk, the exact opposite is true. To them it’s all “muh gas prices.” Which is funny since the average gas price under Joe Biden was higher than the average during Trump’s second term, even with the war. Something is seriously amiss. If incomes are rising faster than prices, it isn’t affordability. It certainly isn’t household wealth. The income figure measures the household in the middle. Elon Musk getting richer can’t drag it upward the way he could an average. And the $2,250 gain in 2025 alone is what remains after adjusting for higher prices. People who spent years watching inflation eat their raises are finally getting ahead. Dismissing that isn’t showing concern for working families: it’s just myopic. And electing the people who gave you all that inflation — and promised to “skyrocket” energy prices to force everyone into an EV — isn’t even sane. That GDP number is especially striking. Remember that much ballyhooed 1.5 percent second-quarter headline that had the pundits celebrating Trump’s “failure?” I told you then: they were looking at the wrong number. What they were seeing wasn’t a slowdown in growth but a capex boom: the private economy spending its output to buy the equipment that would create an industrial supercycle. It’s happening. The ever-brilliant Larry Kudlow calls the burgeoning boom “the greatest story never told.” Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent says we’ve entered the “acceleration phase,” as the tax changes and deregulation start to produce the results they were literally designed to produce. I’ve been explaining that process since early 2025. Yet conservatives continue to buy the left’s lies. It’s time to stop. Working Families Are Getting Ahead Starting with Bill Clinton, America’s ruling class told us manufacturing was gone forever. China would build; we would consume. Russia and the Middle East would supply the energy. Europe would regulate. America would borrow, import, and manage its “inevitable” decline and displacement by more dynamic powers. Trump rejected every part of that nonsense. The workers now getting those bigger paychecks have every reason to be glad he did. Their employers aren’t just buying equipment and building new factories: they're bidding up the price of the people who know how to use them. They’re training even more. Nor is the capex boom ending anytime soon. Trump went out and recruited an incredible $18 trillion of investment into the United States in his first months in office. Equipment shipments have risen at an 18.9 percent annual rate in just the latest three months. And just yesterday, the President announced the largest steel plant in American history, a $15 billion titan set to begin construction in Iowa. The President also negotiated trade deals that pried open foreign markets to U.S. manufacturers; he also exempted foreign companies from tariffs if they begin building plants here. And as a condition of those trade deals — now finalized with countries representing 67 percent of global GDP — he forced countless countries accustomed to buying their energy from Russia and the Persian Gulf to buy it from the Gulf of America instead. The construction workers are building the plants and refineries. The roughnecks are drilling the wells. There will be years of work completing them, and much, much more work running them thereafter. How did that happen? Trump changed the tax code, and thus the incentives for investment. His One Big Beautiful Bill made immediate business expensing permanent for equipment, and added full expensing for qualifying American production facilities. Combined with unprecedented deregulation plus the trade deals, suddenly there’s no better place to build a factory than right here. Meanwhile, no taxes on tips, no taxes on overtime, and no taxes on Social Security (and what sort of obscenity is taxing Social Security anyway?!) help the bottom rung even more than the top. “Those jobs are never coming back” was a lie, calculated to cover for (intentional) Democrat failures. There was a time when an American family could live on one breadwinner’s blue-collar wages. That day is coming back, fast. An economy “growing” at Obama’s stultifying 1.6 percent takes nearly half a century to double. Young people can’t find jobs because they’re already taken: they’re locked out of their futures for half their lifetimes, and locked into dependency on the socialists. That is, after all, the goal. But an economy growing at 5 percent doubles in size in just 14 years. That translates into so much hiring so fast that labor shortages have to be cured by ever-higher wages. It also translates into so much tax revenue, even at lower rates, that you don’t just reduce the deficit: you start paying off the debt, as we did for four straight years before 9/11. Folks, this ain’t rocket science. This is the difference between Jimmy Carter’s economy and Ronald Reagan’s. It’s not like we haven’t seen this play before. Bessent calls it “parallel prosperity.” Wall Street and Main Street can both do well at once. A profitable company is sustainable: it expands, hires people, trains them, and pays them more. An unprofitable company does none of those things. Yet the “Democratic Socialist” treats the profits that make prosperity possible as an offense, one that must be crushed in the name of “social justice.” That’s the choice on November’s ballot. More Production, Less Inflation Nowhere is that point more obvious than deregulation, anathema to the Democrats. Trump has eliminated 129 regulations for every new one: there’s nothing like it in history. Which party do you think issued most of those in the first place? Not ours. A company wants to build; it has customers waiting; it can raise the money. But then it spends years waiting for government to let it proceed. Supposedly the delay protects us. But from what is it protecting us exactly? More goods? Better jobs? The possibility that somebody might make a profit? In the midst of the Depression, the Empire State Building was completed in just 13 months. Good luck getting a permit in even twice that time in today’s New York. A process that makes it prohibitively expensive to produce in America sends that production somewhere else. It doesn’t abolish the need for the product. Americans still buy it, but workers in some other country collect the paychecks. Democrats piled on regulations — and taxes — year after year, amounting to a multi-trillion-dollar burden on the U.S. economy and those pathetic “growth” rates that steal young people’s futures. Trump is rolling them back. Leftwing economists have long fretted (as they have about global warming, and global cooling, and global overpopulation, and the Ozone hole, and “Peak Oil”, and “two weeks to flatten the curve”) that all this new production will cause inflation. But this Phillips Curve nonsense was discredited 50 years ago: the truth is exactly the opposite. Production isn’t the enemy of price stability: it’s the means by which supply catches demand. The answer to a shortage of something Americans need is to make more of it. And if supply is plentiful, prices fall. Likewise, the “expert” class assured us that we needed to lower our expectations, that a “mature economy” can only grow at a lower rate: all the dynamic gains must come from developing economies like China’s. Yet what the heck is a mature economy? If you’d asked anyone in 1900, they’d have said they had one, just before nearly everything we have was invented. We are entering another such period, with AI and countless other new technologies promising productivity gains beyond anything we’ve ever seen. A worker with better tools can produce much more in the same hour, earning a higher wage without increasing the labor cost of each item he produces. And like Reagan before him, President Trump has laid a foundation that sets America up to dominate the next half century. Go Tell Our Story: The Election Is On You So why aren’t Republicans making this case every day? And no, I don’t mean “the Republicans” in Washington. Trump’s doing more than any President before him. Congress, however flawed, has enacted much of his legislation. The leaders aren’t the problem. We are. Historically, the President’s party — whichever President’s party — loses the midterms. But they don’t have to. Midterms are low-turnout elections, which means “every little thing we do is magic.” No need to appeal to the middle, no need to persuade the socialists. Just talk to your own friends and physically take them to the polls. To keep the majority, all we need is 1,000 extra votes in 20 House races — just four extra votes per precinct. Want to make a difference? You can. But that also means that if you don’t, you’re responsible. Republicans need to stop acting like entitled children, and start taking responsibility for their neighbors and their futures. It’s time to tell our story, over and over again. Record real household income and record-low poverty are a pretty great story to tell. So is the lowest murder rate in 126 years, a 99.9 percent reduction in illegal border crossings, or a thousand other things. Five percent GDP growth is exactly the boom Trump promised. And the equipment arriving at new American factories gives us every reason to expect more. This is nothing else but the greatest story never told. So go and tell it.

Under Biden and Trump, children sold by cartels, traffickers and coyotes and released into the interior: ORR releases to sponsors: • FY2022: 128,106 • FY2023: 113,602 • FY2024: 99,419 • FY2025: 23,997 • FY2026 first 7 months: 825 UAC encounters: Border Patrol was taking more than 11,000 unaccompanied kids a month at the high point. After early 2025 that fell to hundreds a month. Oct 2025–May 2026 UAC encounters were about 78% lower than the same stretch a year earlier. Biden Backlog: • 448,000+ UACs transferred from ICE/DHS to HHS • 291,000 never served a Notice to Appear (later reporting put unserved NTAs still over 233,000 as of Jan 2025 even after ICE started catching up) • 32,000 failed to appear in court (that number later rose to 43,000+ among those who were served) • 31,000+ sponsor addresses blank, undeliverable, or incomplete Where’s the Epstein class losers on this? The ones who dissect Epstein for clicks. Did they tell you that 100,000 kids per month under were either sold or trafficked and now that number 825 over 7 months? No. They did not. Unaccompanied minors don’t go through awful conditions to illegally cross the border. They are sold. Not one word for the people who run their mouth about saving children on here and tell you not to vote. Not a single word. This is for the leftists too who say moronic things like no one is illegal. You like when children are sold to coyotes? You think this is good? You must you vote for politicians who allow it to happen.

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