US Politics | May 2024

"Shrinkflation", Election Interference & More Trump Gossip

The Democrats' shrinkflation election campaign
While the President called out mainly the grocery chains for shrinkflation, his election campaign has now adapted the practice to his messaging. Short and concise, so the maximum duration of a speech may be 10 minutes. In short:

• We have the greatest economy ever.
  
  
• Inflation is not a problem; it was 1.9% when I took office.
  
  
• I created, with all the bills that may become effective after 2024, at least 100 million jobs on paper, all great union jobs. So far, 15 million are created (counting the COVID recovery).
  
  
• We have a unified United States; only the MAGA people don’t get it.
  
  
• Guest workers coming across the southern border (called illegal immigrants) are a great addition to our social fabric and economy, so please join me in welcoming them. They will all get green cards or citizenship as soon as we have majority power.
  
  
• However, Homeland Security has done a tremendous job under the leadership of Kamala. There is no longer illegal border crossing; they are all legal now with ankle monitors, and we saved all the money to build a wall.
  
  
• Crime is eradicated, and so is homelessness, with people given extra special care in hotels and free reign to commit crimes unless you are a Republican. For those, we have special counsels and fines for free speech.
  
  
• All the people who vote for me will be rewarded with loan forgiveness, special government programs, and direct handouts. Just bring me a copy of your voting record, and the check will be in the mail.
• If you have any questions, please address them to Binder, CNN, or MSNBC. They will answer everything and keep the narrative of my campaign running.

If this was not enough, his Mother’s Day address was probably drafted by Jill. This guy has no ethics; turning a celebratory day into a campaign day.

The Biden campaign is using Mother's Day to criticize former President Trump in a new campaign video, urging Americans to "Stop Trump."

"Happy Mother's Day. At the Biden campaign, we are asking Americans to do the moms in their lives a favor. Stop Trump," the Biden campaign wrote in a press release.

In the video, the Biden campaign says that "On Mother’s Day, a reminder: Donald Trump stands only for himself and not mothers across America and their families."

Election interference has many angles. One of them is Biden's appeal to the UAW: we can’t let the US EV market be dominated by the Chinese, so tariffs are now good to save votes. So, when is the attack on Tesla coming? And to make sure it becomes a real trade war, include Mexico in it.

Election interference has many angles, one of them is Bidens appeal to the UAW – can’t let the US EV Market be dominated by the Chinese so Tariffs are now good, to save votes, so when is the attack on Tesla coming? And to make sure it becomes a real Trade War, include Mexico in it. 

Officials are particularly focused on electric vehicles, and they are expected to raise the tariff rate to roughly 100% from 25%, according to the people. An additional 2.5% duty applies to all automobiles imported into the U.S. The existing 25% tariff on Chinese electric vehicles has so far effectively barred those models, often cheaper than Western-made cars, from the U.S. market. Biden administration officials, automakers and some lawmakers worry that wouldn’t be enough given the scale of Chinese manufacturing. 

Tesla is the only major American auto manufacturer not represented by a union in the US as of January 2024. None of the unionization attempts between 2016–2023 by United Auto Workers (UAW), United Steelworkers (USW), International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (IBEW), and Workers United were successful.

UAW membership has declined in recent decades, and the auto industry is moving to electric vehicles. EV battery and production plants thus far in the United States are mostly non-union. To grow, the UAW will have to make inroads at EV plants.

“Tesla is the biggest threat in the long term to UAW wages and benefits. UAW doesn’t have any choice but to take on [Tesla],” said John Logan, a professor of labor and employment studies at San Francisco State University.

Tesla controls around 50% of the electric vehicle market in the United States, and Detroit and foreign automakers in the South are racing to catch up. Tesla workers earn on average about $55 an hour in wages and benefits, compared to $66 to $71 an hour at Detroit’s Big Three, according to industry estimates. If you can do Math – the Union dues are the difference? 

But will it sell more EV’s? or will the billions of investments on charging networks simply be expenses?

When Extortion becomes legal, and the payee is criminally charged? Let’s assume Stormy and Donald, in a weak half hour had Sex? Yeah, she really wanted to say no, but kept quiet, and he known for a quicky, went for it. Was that in 2006? Imagine Stormy would have used the #Metoo to allege Trump of rape? Did they just release a Mr. Weinstein from prison, (not yet) for people making false claims? What if it just did not pay out for Stormy, neither in the apprentice program nor any of her desires to become famous? So as with the Russian Dossier, paid for by Hillary, to throw a wrench into Trumps election, was it Stormy to the rescue of the democrat party failures, and we thought it to be a 134,000-dollar financial scheme, now we know it was about the sex position, potentially instilled in her from death people’s voices, but well she may have blacked out because it did not happen? And the left media calls it a threat to democracy? Let’s face it, it’s nothing short of an extortion, and the Judge, NY County District Attorney, the Biden surrogates, especially Matthew Colangelo should all be prosecuted for conspiracy and with the real Crime, election interference. Wonder which Hollywood producer provided the script? 

For Manhattan prosecutors, putting Daniels, 45 years old, on the stand was a gamble. Her testimony helped bolster the account of her former lawyer, Keith Davidson, and gave jurors a firsthand look at her efforts to sell her story and negotiations around her silence. But Trump’s lawyers raised objections over what she told the jury and later demanded a mistrial. They accused Daniels of changing her story and of providing details outside the scope of the trial. 

Daniels said at one point that she blacked out during the encounter, but clarified she wasn’t drunk or drugged. 

Todd Blanche, a Trump lawyer, said Daniels’s testimony was meant to inflame the jury and wrongfully raise questions about whether the sex was consensual.

US Elections coming up, for the defenders of Democracy – check out the Players. 

The Federal role in elections, a visual aid you may start reading now to see through the channels that may have the power to play interference, depending on the interest? Do we think they all are neutral to the vote, and simply carry out the mission. 

The Governments role, do we think they are all politically neutral and to no avail self-serving? Government employees may be different from the Administration, but there might be a bit of leaning to personal interest and political. 

Confidence in government employees has declined among both Republicans and Democrats since 2018. Among Republicans and independents who lean toward the Republican Party, 38% say they have a great deal or a fair amount of confidence in civil servants, down from 48% in December 2018.

Political Donations from Federal Employees

Several agencies have employee donations in the 2020 political cycle that total in the millions. The agency with the largest total donations was the State Department with more than $5.2 million. This agency also had the largest percentage of donations to Republicans (46.14%). The Department of Defense was a close second with more than $5.2 million donated during the same political cycle. 65% of donations from these employees went to Democrats.

The Department of Justice had more than $2.3 million in donations with 87.6% going to Democrats.

The agency with the highest percentage going to Democrats was the Federal Communications Commission (also, probably the smallest agency depicted and the one with the smallest amount of total donations). 99.29% of donations from people in this agency went to Democrats. The largest total amount going to Democrats was $3,356,391 from the Department of Defense.

Why do we have DEI requirements, would a political equivalent not require a balanced employee count, but perhaps like MSNBC, the left needs a safe heaven for extremists? 

The Corporate role in elections, do we think for 2024, Facebook, Google and all the others will simply refrain from endorsements, contributions and direct influence, you can always but a spin on it to justify? It may well be, as the public is much more aware of the Medias interpretation of infrastructure support. Perhaps some of the CEO simply are to be embarrassed by the current Leadership to publicly support it, but this is a thematic to follow. 

And the dark Money – start with Arabella

Schmitt's first guest was Scott Walter, president of the Capital Research Center and the author of the new bestseller "Arabella: The Dark Money Network of Leftist Billionaires Secretly Transforming America."

In "Arabella," Walter shows how billionaires like Soros, Mark Zuckerberg, the Pritzker family, and even investor Warren Buffett have used the shadowy group to pour billions into radical groups.

Arabella Advisors calls itself a philanthropic consulting company, but its network of subsidiaries, including the Sixteen Thirty Fund, rake in billions, but because the way they are structured, they do not have to disclose their donors.

And the Media, here a list of News outlets, have you ever thought which ones are balances, which ones plain left or right and which ones just a messenger for the Administration. 

Biden’s Tax plan, we have not heard much about it lately, perhaps he is taking Warren Buffets blueprint, and starts with the ones on the top, as a start? Wonder what the 80 billion in IRS investment will produce, studying Trumps tax returns? See the hypocrisy? 

U.S. IRS to hire nearly 20,000 staff over two years with $80 billion in new funds. 

Fair enough: At Berkshire Hathaway’s 2024 annual meeting, CEO Warren Buffett stated “if we send in a check like we did last year we send in over 5 billion to the US federal government and if 800 other companies had done the same thing no other person in the United States would have had to pay a dime of federal taxes whether income taxes no social security taxes no estate taxes…”

Valuable advice: At the time of this writing the U.S. national debt is heading towards 40 trillion dollars, let’s give it the benefit of the doubt that no U.S. citizen wants to pay income tax, Warren’s suggestion is actually a profound way to pay off the U.S. national debt within a decade.

For reference: If the top 800 U.S. companies paid a minimum of 5 billion annually to the federal government that equates to 4 trillion dollars per year.

U.S. IRS to hire nearly 20,000 staff over two years with $80 billion in new funds.

The tax agency, in its long-awaited Strategic Operating Plan, opens new tab, said it will obligate about $8.64 billion of the new funding during the 2023 and 2024 fiscal years, and that 7,239 of the new hires during those years will be enforcement staff.

"The IRS is going to hire more data scientists than they ever have for enforcement purposes," U.S. Deputy Treasury Secretary Wally Adeyemo told reporters, adding that these would complement more traditional tax attorneys and revenue agents in using new data analytics technology to identify audit targets.

Since abortion is still a high priority for some voters, here may be some help. Rather than pay for a surrogate, just adopt one? But if you read the story below, perhaps some rethinking of values might be appropriate. Or is it all Business rather then high ethics? You are not allowed to shoot a dog, but abort a Child up to birth? Get your perspective? 

USA: Man with makeup and fake fingernails receives a just-born child. How LGBTQ ideology is destroying the tried-and-tested values of our society. A man with long braids, make-up and artificial fingernails lies on a hospital bed and receives a child that has just been born. He bought it because he can afford it and another woman offered her body and her biological baby for sale. The innocent worm lies on his hairy chest, and the man seems quite animated.

While the legislator grants puppies an eight-week period during which the small dog must stay with its mother, people are not so merciful with human children. In the USA, it is increasingly common for the orderer’s to even be present at the birth in the delivery room. Just like in this video.