34 thoughts on “News/Politics 4-11-25

  1. For those silly people who think Trump is just winging it, a thread.

    There is a plan, and they’re doing it. Educate yourselves.

    https://x.com/AnnaRMatson/status/1910454856407802232?t=lU-4yoDKhvL3T248-pf2qQ&s=19

    “-Consumer prices have dropped including energy prices.

    -The country is making approximately 2 billion dollars a day (I’m assuming he is referring to tariffs).”

    “-Increase Ship Manufacturing

    -Streamline Military Acquisitions”

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    “-Just got back from Panama

    -Signed deals to secure the Panama Canal and allow US vessels to travel freely.”

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    “-Canceled $22 billion in grants

    -Deregulating

    -Approving power plants”

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    And so much more. Read on.

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  2. What!?

    Democrats lying?

    https://x.com/libsoftiktok/status/1910404250578149587?t=nQ8viAubJz2rws3sddZ_Iw&s=19

    “Democrat lies DEBUNKED

    Democrats have been spreading LIES about the SAVE Act because they don’t want to secure our elections.

    Here are the FACTS:”

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    “This claim—that “if you do not have a passport, and your ID does not match your birth certificate, you cannot prove your citizenship” under the SAVE Act and “you will not be able to vote”—is 100% false

    Couldn’t be more wrong

    See the attached if you’d like to know why”

    https://x.com/BasedMikeLee/status/1910385894701547845?t=D6ZpX5LKGh2Z9wt-RBy6Dw&s=19

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  3. “We just successfully passed both the save act as well as the house budget (216-214). We are also codifying permanently ending taxes on tips and Social Security. To be clear the only reason why the budget passed is because President Trump was actively involved and is truly one of the best negotiators I’ve ever met. He is doing great things for this country. Thank you POTUS!”

    https://x.com/realannapaulina/status/1910356155760574725?t=IYflT5pTN3Cq65IUNp3rPg&s=19

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  4. DOGE uncovers more waste, fraud, and abuse.

    https://x.com/DOGE/status/1910449939487895905?t=emd7q3GOX1OomOUu6IEjNw&s=19

    “California, New York, and Massachusetts accounted for most of these improper claims, totaling $305M in unemployment benefits.

    Additionally, California accounted for 68% of the unemployment benefits paid to parolees identified by CBP on the terrorist watchlist or with criminal records.”

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    https://x.com/DOGE/status/1910170116236460081?t=n010ImuMFZnAfi83c5cEmg&s=19

    “An initial survey of Unemployment Insurance claims since 2020 revealed the following:

    – 24.5k people over 115 years old claimed $59M in benefits

    – 28k people between 1 and 5 years old claimed $254M in benefits

    – 9.7k people with birth dates over 15 years in the future claimed $69M in benefits

    In one case, someone with a birthday in 2154 claimed $41k.”

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    • Well, well, well….

      Right again.

      https://x.com/BehizyTweets/status/1910388911018324127?t=oxlcHU3FWaPZ8irf-1CDyg&s=19

      “BREAKING: Tulsi Gabbard just announced at the Cabinet meeting that her office has obtained evidence of massive vulnerabilities on voting machines that allow hackers to flip votes. WHOAH!!!”

      We have evidence of how these electronic voting systems have been vulnerable to hackers for a very long time and vulnerable to exploitation to manipulate the results of the votes being cast, which further drives forward your mandate to bring about paper ballots across the country so that voters can have faith in the integrity of our elections.

      “Yesterday, President Trump ordered the DOJ to investigate Chris Krebs for his role in the 2020 election, and now this???”

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  5. Except … if there is a plan (?), it’s been disrupted. (via BBC):

    ~ In response to why Beijing is not backing down to Donald Trump on tariffs, the answer is that it doesn’t have to.

    China’s leaders would say that they are not inclined to cave in to a bully – something its government has repeatedly labelled the Trump administration as – but it also has a capacity to do this way beyond any other country on Earth.

    Before the tariff war kicked in, China did have a massive volume of sales to the US but, to put it into context, this only amounted to 2% of its GDP.

    That said, the Communist Party would clearly prefer not to be locked in a trade war with the US at a time when it has been struggling to fix its own considerable economic headaches, after years of a real estate crisis, overblown regional debt and persistent youth unemployment.

    However, despite this, the government has told its people that it is in a strong position to resist the attacks from the US.

    It also knows its own tariffs are clearly going to hurt US exporters as well.

    Trump has been bragging to his supporters that it would be easy to force China into submission by simply hitting the country with tariffs, but this has proven to be misleading in the extreme.

    Beijing is not going to surrender. … ~

    _________________________

    To be continued …

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  6. “And this is, the Director of the Central Intelligence Agency, John Ratcliffe

    “The Inspector General’s sworn testimony which will confirm the contacts between chairman Schiff and the whistleblower.”

    In other words @SenAdamSchiff tampered with the impeachment whistleblower, Eric Ciaramella, in an attempt to overthrow the sitting President of the United States— not once, not twice, but THREE TIMES.”

    https://x.com/Real_RobN/status/1910374587445191133?t=Mo4SZgQRRNHegrP56FsxoA&s=19

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  7. Only now can these frauds tell the truth. The same people that told us Biden was sharp as a tack are now writing tell alls saying the complete opposite. Parasitic grifters. The press is a joke.

    https://x.com/JesseBWatters/status/1910162066024935473?t=T_m7-pi0YxAQl-EtTAa8gg&s=19

    “.@CCWhip: During a debate prep session, a confused @JoeBiden wandered outside, fell in the pool, collapsed into a lawn chair, and promptly fell asleep. Ron Klain saw it all go down and did nothing.”

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  8. And most importantly, many people, even on our side, ignore the abuse of taxpayer dollars because again, the cult of personality reigns, and we don’t like Musk’s delivery or attitude.

    It’s so predictable, and unhelpful.

    https://x.com/MilaLovesJoe/status/1910576869331923455?t=Cly2d_RdglmyAeBOeHfk9w&s=19

    “So it turns out…Just about everyone in DC is funneling taxpayer dollars to their spouses or family members NGO, nonprofit, firm, foundation etc.

    It’s one of the main ways they’re stealing from us.

    DOGE is catching them all.

    Ouch.”

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  9. Remember kids, as always, The Deep State is a myth…

    But sure, SignalGate is the real scandal…..

    https://x.com/Real_RobN/status/1910011920645775458?t=zvrTaqPHuFBn4YNIaFW4eA&s=19

    “Whistleblower emails CONFIRM: a criminal conspiracy between the Biden White House, the FBI Washington Field Office, prosecutors from the U.S. Attorney’s Office – Washington D.C., and Jack Smith to plan, approve, and execute Arctic Frost, with the intent to frame, arrest, prosecute, and imprison Donald J. Trump.

    Operation Arctic Frost formed the basis of Special Prostitute Jack Smith’s false elector case under which President Donald Trump was later charged with a conspiracy to defraud the United States for his campaign’s attempts to assemble alternate slates of electors which that the United States government was overthrown during the 2020 election.”

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  10. This is China’s concept of the American worker. I guess this is how they fight the trade war? Humorous.

    And it has the advantage of fitting right in with the image so many of the uni-party seem to hold of American workers. As Molson Hart said in his patronizing pro China article DJ linked a few days ago:

    “Most Americans are going to hate manufacturing… Americans want less crime, good schools for their kids, and inexpensive healthcare. They don’t want to be sewing shirts…. Be careful what you wish for America. Doing office work and selling ideas and assets is a lot easier than making actual things.”

    https://www.breitbart.com/tech/2025/04/11/desperation-china-resorts-to-ai-videos-mocking-americans-as-trade-war-heats-up/

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  11. We were talking about iphones manufactured in China yesterday. Apparently it’s been clear for some time that those are not at all secure. Our conversations are shared at will with the Chinese government.

    “On Thursday on FNC’s “The Ingraham Angle,” Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO) warned that some American companies have allowed Chinese manufacturers to embed technology into U.S. communications infrastructure, which could mean China can “breach” communications networks….”

    https://www.breitbart.com/clips/2025/04/11/hawley-verizon-others-have-allowed-china-to-breach-u-s-comms-infrastructure-allows-chinese-to-listen-in-on-calls/

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  12. Debra @2:50 of course.

    But still … This market mess was self-inflicted which somewhat makes it a little different in many Americans’ eyes.

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  13. God surely is doing something in all of this — He does judge the nations so we can’t rule that out, either.

    We are a divided country, I’m not sure I remember this much division in my lifetime (though maybe in the late 1960s-early 1970s). But we are not “in good times.” Both parties will see the whirlwind at some point during this period, I think.

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  14. Interesting that in the 60s and 70s it was the Democrats who spun out to their extreme reaches … Now the Republicans are having their turn at it.

    It usually doesn’t end well for political parties when they do that, though it’s a lesson we all seem to have to re-learn.

    It won’t be boring.

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  15. Meanwhile –

    ~ (Bloomberg): American Consumers Are Getting Rattled by Trump’s Tariff Chaos

    Donald Trump’s “Liberation Day” tariff announcement set off the most volatile stretch of his second term, with financial markets descending into chaos, China unleashing retaliatory measures  and the US president pausing some levies only hours after they took effect.

    The whiplash made for a dramatic reminder to shoppers and companies that Trump’s trade policy can change on a dime. That unpredictability, economists say, is likely to be a drag on spending and investing.

    And after all the back-and-forth, the average US tariff rate is still as high as it’s been in more than a century – and is nearly 24 percentage points higher than when Trump took office, according to Bloomberg Economics. ~  

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  16. So interesting China refers to Trump as a bully!….pot meet kettle! And further they are the government persecuting Christian….!!

    Trusting the Lord-in every matter of our lives…even finances. Yes He is Lord over all in good times and bad. We lived through the past four years I suppose we can survive the next for with someone who actually loves this country and her citizens.! Nj

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  17. DJ, I still think it’s strange that you seem to consider it ‘normal’ that our establishment politicians deliberately incentivized our manufacturing to divest from our country in it’s most basic capacities of production; but bringing them back is somehow ‘radical’.

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  18. “Once Upon A Time …

    A crazy man claimed that voter data for every American was in China and The CCP had used secret illegal U.S. election computer access to switch votes in 2020.

    And the crazy man was mocked & sued.

    But times changed, and a new administration arrived …”

    https://x.com/Rasmussen_Poll/status/1910707274223333874?t=w4oHU3ogyw2mWieDbl10wg&s=19

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    “We have evidence of how these electronic voting systems have been vulnerable to hackers for a very long time, and vulnerable to the exploitation of the results of the votes being cast … “

    https://x.com/Rasmussen_Poll/status/1910458691582599598?t=3mmwEqgOx6EoXTTEWzgHuw&s=19

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  19. “At yesterday’s Senate hearing, I shared a story that every American entrepreneur already knows too well.

    You build something great. You invest your own money, blood, sweat, and tears. You prove it in the U.S. market. Then, BOOM — one day you wake up and see your product, your innovation, being sold on Alibaba. Knocked off. Branded like yours, but you’re not getting a single dollar.

    This is the reality for thousands of American small businesses. And it’s been happening for decades.I’m done watching American entrepreneurs get steamrolled. If Chinese companies want access to our legal system, then it’s time we get access to theirs. Until then? 400% tariffs.”

    https://x.com/kevinolearytv/status/1910479918644748496?t=Xy8s0gfx2ISkgZqEcsM_2g&s=19

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  20. Does anyone want Kamala Harris for Governor of California? I have not heard who else might be running. I think the Attorney General (R) of Georgia plans to put his hat in the race for Governor in Georgia along with Keesha Lance Bottoms (D) former Mayor of Atlanta. Easy choice there!

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  21. I may be misunderstanding the issue, and I admit that I have not read deeply on this, but I have a question. If we raise the tariffs on China to a certain percentage, why is it not okay for China to raise its tariffs on us to the same percentage?

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  22. Kizzie not sure but maybe it has something to do with our huge trade deficit with China. They just seem to come off like we should be bowing to them instead of balancing it all out…

    nj

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  23. That, and they always tariffed our goods, as well as having significant control of our companies there.

    It’s always been a mystery to me that our leaders have considered any trade with China as ‘free trade’. It is not now, nor can I see that it ever has been in the past. Their form of government precludes free trade, as the people are not free. That’s not to say that we never could have any trade with China, but it’s not in any way, shape or form ‘free trade’. It would have to be a very limited agreement between governments, in my opinion, not a ‘free market’ decision.

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