While 99% of the credit goes to President Trump it must be acknowledged that a profoundly more engaged and energetic population of voters than perhaps ever before has contributed greatly toward herding those feral Republican representatives and senators into line.
They know we’re very much paying attention and their positions are on the line if they thwart the President’s agenda.
I would like to think that what you’re saying is true; but both parties are so unresponsive in so many ways, especially the Dems. How can it be that 60-70% of the people can be against something, and yet politicians will rationalize away or decide that they just know better, because . . .and that’s not representation.
Great. The next thing that needs to happen now is for Jerome Powell to be fired. At best, he is a table-pounding ideologue about tariffs: "beliefs not affectable by evidence". At worst, he is trying to sabotage Trump by seizing on tariffs as a pretext. Either way, by keeping interest rates high he is dramatically increasing interest payments on the deficit, gee thanks. And either way, he should be gone. Yesterday.
The CPI inflation rate is staying stubbornly above the Fed's desired rate of 2% or less; by another index inflation is more like 3% annually. Trump wants the Fed to lower short term rates to below the inflation rate, i.e. a negative real short term rate. That is a prescription for higher inflation. Higher inflation would destroy Trump's approval rating, as it did Biden's. That would result in the far Left Democrats coming to power in 2028. Trump is too mentally lazy, too uninformed to know these facts.
Powell himself admits that all the targets for rate reduction have been met. He's just pretending he can see the future to stick his thumb in Trump's eye.
The Fed's current interest rate is about 2 points higher than the inflation rate. Not too many years ago, interest rates were zero, and this state of affairs, as theoretically impossible as it might seem, was maintained due to lack of better options.
I'm really excited for the upcoming celebration year. I am so so grateful we don't have a Democrat President for our 250th birthday. Can you imagine?
"249.9 years ago, the United States did its first disservice by using big boats instead of walking across the land bridge like they should have! We apologize to the Ocean."
Charlie Kirk talked to someone who claimed to hate America.
Kirk said, "the United States is the only country in the world who has people that say they hate it, but never leave it." Amen!
Yeah, all these people who say we are "colonizers," I think they should set the example, by deporting themselves. Send the Gays for Palestine group over to Gaza, and have a rooftop celebration!
Technically, anybody in North America waaaay back to Long long ago, including Indian tribes, technically was a colonizer.
I'm looking forward to your description and analysis of President Trump's successes for all Americans. Even those who would rather we all lose just so they can say Trump couldn't deliver.
The response from he/she/they/them to your statement has nothing to do with the bill that passed. You know your talking to an idiot when there's a hard turn into something no one was talking about.
So far in term #2, Trump has verifiably earned just north of $425 million in cash and papered on another $620 million in crypto appreciation, so approx. a billion dollars of additional personal wealth, give or take.
Trump’s federal income‑tax bill on that $1 billion is about $11 million lower for tax‑year 2025. Starting next year, the same level of income would cost roughly $100‑110 million less in tax each year than it would have without the “One Big Beautiful Bill.”
Pelosi appears to have been financially clever re stocks. Net gains were in the tens of millions, reflecting well‑timed trades and option plays. Ethical scrutiny continues, but no direct evidence confirms insider trading — only that it raises serious questions.
Re the "Biden crime family", it looks like the Bidens excl. Joe and mostly incl. Hunter made $5-8 million in foreign-linked business analyzing bank wires and testimony and concluding with moderate confidence. Additionall amounts are based on partisan investigations and include partners’ shares (low–moderate confidence).
What can be said with high confidence is Trump's 2nd term (we'll include 8 months starting from Nov 5th) have brought Trump another $1 billion and his bill will reap hundreds of millions of $s of tax savings for Trump.
I don't consider myself a mathematical genius but hundreds of millions of $ and billions of $ are higher than tens of millions of $ to my knowledge.
I also find it unseemly and grifter like to be hawking Trump merchandise at wildly inflated prices to his base. A sucker is born every minute as WC Fields used to say. Maybe more like every second these days.
Back to Joe for a sec. I asked a successful 60 year old maga friend why he was voting for Trump in the 2020 election. He said he disliked the fact that Biden got rich because of his political connections. I didn't press it, but was curious how rich he thought Biden got. Also, I note here time and again that maga folks and pundits "noticed" that Biden was already experiencing signs of dementia by 2020. I haven't heard of many demented people making untold riches. In magaland you can believe what you want to believe. I also note that in Sasha's 4th of July positive karma article "A Virtual Civil War on America's Birthday Can't we all just get along?" she notes "If you do not exist in reality, what he says can mean whatever you want it to." So this delusional, revisitionist thinking is affecting us all maybe? It's satisying to believe you have the correct facts without confirming the facts.
Yes, Nancy Pelosi is obviously the smartest person in the whole United States, regarding the stock market.
54% returns!! Wow.
I'm sure it has nothing to do with insider information. 🙄
And I'm sorry, other than the highest officials like President or Vice President, nobody is going to pay $300,000 for a senator to give a 10-minute speech, unless it is a political interest that is looking to find a great way to, under the radar, contribute to that person.
It's ironic that now that the funding for USAID has been cut off, all of a sudden the Democrats are having trouble paying their bills 😂🤣
MAGA also appear to love their wealthy elites, particualrly when the wealthiest one in the world helps buy their way in to the top office.
To wit, Trump clearly had multiple single donors contributing in the $100 million+ networth range (Adelsons, Mellon, Elon Musk in later cycles). Biden/Harris did not receive any such mega-contribution from a single donor in 2020.
Nobody is more "Do as I say, not as I do," than the Democrats.
It's like Oprah and Whoopi, counting their millions of dollars that they made in a capitalist society, telling everybody else that the United States is severely racist and minorities can't be successful in this country. Since when? They're not an example of somebody doing well, in the USA?
Theyre totally denigrating everyone, and this Country, and acting like anyone who is a minority is totally handicapped from being able to do anything in their life in this country...
Kamala blew $2 billion the last 2 months of the campaign.
But putting lipstick on a pig, sure didn't work. That's why the bigwigs are reluctant to give right now...
But most of the bigwigs, the "ogliarchs," are in the Democrat column now. Democrats are now the party of the "rich people."
The party of Big Money.
Bernie now slams billionaires. Do you know why he doesn't slam millionaires anymore? Because he became one while he was in office... You can't make this shit up 😂🤣
Nobody is more "Do as I say, not as I do," than the Democrats.
Harris got 48.3% of the popular vote and Trump got 49.8%. I'm not a statistitian or calculus professor, but 48.3% doesn't seem that much lower than 49.8%. If 48.3% is lipstick on a pig, what is the other under 50% vote getter?
Mind you, Trump framed his triumph with much pomp and circumstance - as a sweeping mandate delivered by the American people, reflecting divine intervention in his survival, celebrating an overwhelming and unexpected victory, and promising national restoration, unity, and prosperity. Mind you, since he didn't win the popular vote in 2016 but said he did and didn't win the election in 2020 but said he did, he must finally be relieved to say he won without lying at least. So he embelishes a bit. So what, as long as the gullible base believes it. Falling for a liar and a con. Really now! This is how far we've advanced in the oh so great America as of July 4th 2025.
Which Bernie left wing billionaire became a billionaire in office? If you're talking Sanders, in reality he became a millionaire in the $2-$3 million range, hardly difficult in America by the time you're 83 and famous. He gained wealth mainly through book writing and real estate gains, not corporate ties or high‑paid speaking gigs. His financial records and public disclosures consistently reflect a humble, middle‑class ethos. You're worrying me... giving me conspiracy vibes again.
The President is scheduled to speak in Des Moines at the Iowa State Fairgrounds at 7:30 PM this evening. It’s beyond my reach due to teaching a night class in Des Moines until 10. It will still be 88 degrees when he starts. Best wishes for a positive event to President Trump and all who attend. Stay hydrated!
While 99% of the credit goes to President Trump it must be acknowledged that a profoundly more engaged and energetic population of voters than perhaps ever before has contributed greatly toward herding those feral Republican representatives and senators into line.
They know we’re very much paying attention and their positions are on the line if they thwart the President’s agenda.
Keep the pressure UP!!
They need a lot more herding. With a cattle prod, max current.
😂
I would like to think that what you’re saying is true; but both parties are so unresponsive in so many ways, especially the Dems. How can it be that 60-70% of the people can be against something, and yet politicians will rationalize away or decide that they just know better, because . . .and that’s not representation.
To the Demoncats: Keep doing what you are doing!
No doubt, I have lost all respect for the ACLU. For that matter, if you’re an activist (person or organization), I don’t want to hear from you at all.
ACLU has always been corrupt.
The ACLU picks rotten cherries.
Great. The next thing that needs to happen now is for Jerome Powell to be fired. At best, he is a table-pounding ideologue about tariffs: "beliefs not affectable by evidence". At worst, he is trying to sabotage Trump by seizing on tariffs as a pretext. Either way, by keeping interest rates high he is dramatically increasing interest payments on the deficit, gee thanks. And either way, he should be gone. Yesterday.
The CPI inflation rate is staying stubbornly above the Fed's desired rate of 2% or less; by another index inflation is more like 3% annually. Trump wants the Fed to lower short term rates to below the inflation rate, i.e. a negative real short term rate. That is a prescription for higher inflation. Higher inflation would destroy Trump's approval rating, as it did Biden's. That would result in the far Left Democrats coming to power in 2028. Trump is too mentally lazy, too uninformed to know these facts.
Powell himself admits that all the targets for rate reduction have been met. He's just pretending he can see the future to stick his thumb in Trump's eye.
The Fed's current interest rate is about 2 points higher than the inflation rate. Not too many years ago, interest rates were zero, and this state of affairs, as theoretically impossible as it might seem, was maintained due to lack of better options.
Trump is somehow unable to ask Scott Bessent his opinion ?
I'm really excited for the upcoming celebration year. I am so so grateful we don't have a Democrat President for our 250th birthday. Can you imagine?
"249.9 years ago, the United States did its first disservice by using big boats instead of walking across the land bridge like they should have! We apologize to the Ocean."
Charlie Kirk talked to someone who claimed to hate America.
Kirk said, "the United States is the only country in the world who has people that say they hate it, but never leave it." Amen!
Yeah, all these people who say we are "colonizers," I think they should set the example, by deporting themselves. Send the Gays for Palestine group over to Gaza, and have a rooftop celebration!
Technically, anybody in North America waaaay back to Long long ago, including Indian tribes, technically was a colonizer.
SO WHAT.
Truly Providential.
Oh, and Hakeem Jeffries' "Magic Minute" that became 7 hours makes victory that much sweeter.
Didn't he tell us the Filibuster was a relic of Jim Crow? Hmmmm?
Eat it, clown.
Happy 4th all! Now let’s see how this all works out.
Well done to all and sundry. BTW, today is the 250th anniversary of George Washington taking command of the Continential Army at Cambridge MA.
I'm looking forward to your description and analysis of President Trump's successes for all Americans. Even those who would rather we all lose just so they can say Trump couldn't deliver.
For all Americans, or all wealthy Americans?
I think your point of objection is that the bill aims to help *only* Americans, scooter.
The response from he/she/they/them to your statement has nothing to do with the bill that passed. You know your talking to an idiot when there's a hard turn into something no one was talking about.
Not sure how you arrived at that perspective.
So far in term #2, Trump has verifiably earned just north of $425 million in cash and papered on another $620 million in crypto appreciation, so approx. a billion dollars of additional personal wealth, give or take.
Trump’s federal income‑tax bill on that $1 billion is about $11 million lower for tax‑year 2025. Starting next year, the same level of income would cost roughly $100‑110 million less in tax each year than it would have without the “One Big Beautiful Bill.”
Hmmm....How come you have never complained about Nancy Pelosi and her husband getting 54% returns on their stocks this past year?
And I've never heard you complain about the millions that the Biden family made, from Ukraine and China. 🤔
Pelosi appears to have been financially clever re stocks. Net gains were in the tens of millions, reflecting well‑timed trades and option plays. Ethical scrutiny continues, but no direct evidence confirms insider trading — only that it raises serious questions.
Re the "Biden crime family", it looks like the Bidens excl. Joe and mostly incl. Hunter made $5-8 million in foreign-linked business analyzing bank wires and testimony and concluding with moderate confidence. Additionall amounts are based on partisan investigations and include partners’ shares (low–moderate confidence).
What can be said with high confidence is Trump's 2nd term (we'll include 8 months starting from Nov 5th) have brought Trump another $1 billion and his bill will reap hundreds of millions of $s of tax savings for Trump.
I don't consider myself a mathematical genius but hundreds of millions of $ and billions of $ are higher than tens of millions of $ to my knowledge.
I also find it unseemly and grifter like to be hawking Trump merchandise at wildly inflated prices to his base. A sucker is born every minute as WC Fields used to say. Maybe more like every second these days.
Back to Joe for a sec. I asked a successful 60 year old maga friend why he was voting for Trump in the 2020 election. He said he disliked the fact that Biden got rich because of his political connections. I didn't press it, but was curious how rich he thought Biden got. Also, I note here time and again that maga folks and pundits "noticed" that Biden was already experiencing signs of dementia by 2020. I haven't heard of many demented people making untold riches. In magaland you can believe what you want to believe. I also note that in Sasha's 4th of July positive karma article "A Virtual Civil War on America's Birthday Can't we all just get along?" she notes "If you do not exist in reality, what he says can mean whatever you want it to." So this delusional, revisitionist thinking is affecting us all maybe? It's satisying to believe you have the correct facts without confirming the facts.
Yes, Nancy Pelosi is obviously the smartest person in the whole United States, regarding the stock market.
54% returns!! Wow.
I'm sure it has nothing to do with insider information. 🙄
And I'm sorry, other than the highest officials like President or Vice President, nobody is going to pay $300,000 for a senator to give a 10-minute speech, unless it is a political interest that is looking to find a great way to, under the radar, contribute to that person.
It's ironic that now that the funding for USAID has been cut off, all of a sudden the Democrats are having trouble paying their bills 😂🤣
Hmmm....
You're confusing two different things.
Biden was selling access to the office of the vice president, and making money that way through Hunter Biden.
All the things you brought up with Trump, have to do with the fact that he is making money, with business interests, outside of the Presidency.
Not by selling influence on policy.
Big difference.
Haha, had many issues with dementia already in 2020...
He didn't have to be particularly clever, because he had people like Hunter Biden selling access to the office of vice President under Obama.
And, he was the Big Guy, who always got his 10%...
Not that he's the most truthful person, but I find it curious that Zelensky said out of 180 billion given to Ukraine, 80 billion was missing.
Democrats love their wealthy elites.
Democrats are now the party of wealthy oligarchs...
Bernie Sanders only bitches about billionaires now, because he became a millionaire while in orifice. You can't make this up!
Has Musk turned (again)?
MAGA also appear to love their wealthy elites, particualrly when the wealthiest one in the world helps buy their way in to the top office.
To wit, Trump clearly had multiple single donors contributing in the $100 million+ networth range (Adelsons, Mellon, Elon Musk in later cycles). Biden/Harris did not receive any such mega-contribution from a single donor in 2020.
Nobody is more "Do as I say, not as I do," than the Democrats.
It's like Oprah and Whoopi, counting their millions of dollars that they made in a capitalist society, telling everybody else that the United States is severely racist and minorities can't be successful in this country. Since when? They're not an example of somebody doing well, in the USA?
Theyre totally denigrating everyone, and this Country, and acting like anyone who is a minority is totally handicapped from being able to do anything in their life in this country...
Well, I disagree with that.
Kamala blew $2 billion the last 2 months of the campaign.
But putting lipstick on a pig, sure didn't work. That's why the bigwigs are reluctant to give right now...
But most of the bigwigs, the "ogliarchs," are in the Democrat column now. Democrats are now the party of the "rich people."
The party of Big Money.
Bernie now slams billionaires. Do you know why he doesn't slam millionaires anymore? Because he became one while he was in office... You can't make this shit up 😂🤣
Nobody is more "Do as I say, not as I do," than the Democrats.
Harris got 48.3% of the popular vote and Trump got 49.8%. I'm not a statistitian or calculus professor, but 48.3% doesn't seem that much lower than 49.8%. If 48.3% is lipstick on a pig, what is the other under 50% vote getter?
Mind you, Trump framed his triumph with much pomp and circumstance - as a sweeping mandate delivered by the American people, reflecting divine intervention in his survival, celebrating an overwhelming and unexpected victory, and promising national restoration, unity, and prosperity. Mind you, since he didn't win the popular vote in 2016 but said he did and didn't win the election in 2020 but said he did, he must finally be relieved to say he won without lying at least. So he embelishes a bit. So what, as long as the gullible base believes it. Falling for a liar and a con. Really now! This is how far we've advanced in the oh so great America as of July 4th 2025.
Which Bernie left wing billionaire became a billionaire in office? If you're talking Sanders, in reality he became a millionaire in the $2-$3 million range, hardly difficult in America by the time you're 83 and famous. He gained wealth mainly through book writing and real estate gains, not corporate ties or high‑paid speaking gigs. His financial records and public disclosures consistently reflect a humble, middle‑class ethos. You're worrying me... giving me conspiracy vibes again.
Those that know how to do what it takes vs. those that don't?
Those that DON'T...
Protest against the latest fad, and thing that is making life "NOT FAIR" for them.
Katens of the World, Unite!
I'm so tired of listening to people that made choices that weren't great disparaging those that had to eat the same shit and succeeded despite it.
Definitely...
Progressives, if they were named properly, would be called the "Regressives." Professional Victims!
They don't even stand for most of the things that old classic liberal Democrats stood for, like freedom of speech.
It's all about "sticking it to the man," cuz they ain't got none.
And, it's your fault and my fault, even though we worked for everything.
Good call
Happy 4th! I always look forward to your substack. Keep up the great work!
Some Feel Good Headlines Ahead of July 4
Who needs the old comics pages when the "hard" news is so amusing?
Steven F. Hayward
Jul 03, 2025
https://stevehayward.substack.com/p/some-feel-good-headlines-ahead-of
Happy Independence Day to Sasha and her many fans!
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TWA: Trump Wins Again.
Just In: Speaker Mike Johnson Delivers Fierce Reply to Jeffries’ Record-Breaking Speech | AC1G
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VAOMRBzqDMA
This is amazing, political feat! Considering how small the majority the GOP has in Both Houses.
John Thune, Mike Johnson supporting Donal Trump. A Big Deal!
💕💕💕
Because all the moderates are gone and all you have left is bots for either party
^ Backhanded admission.
We've got plenty of moderates. For starters, we have most of the ones you used to have.
Name me one now GOP who switched from democrats who is moderate
What's your point? Democrats lost.....Republicans and America won.
You can thank us anytime, sport.
Only GOP won no one else.
So when the Democrats win, you count it as a "win" for America? Do you?
Not elected and Tulsi and RFJ Jr Switched all their stances so that even moderates when they were democrats.
So give you an example, but don't use either of the most obvious examples, right?
You caught yourself saying something stupid but couldn't quite stop.
Tulsi flipped ALL her democrat stances
1. She was pro-gun laws no longer
2. She was pro-environment no longer
3. She was pro-health care for all no longer
Many former democrats in the limelight switch all their stances and then have the gall to say the party left them.
Okay. Now do RFK. Then Musk. Then Trump.
The President is scheduled to speak in Des Moines at the Iowa State Fairgrounds at 7:30 PM this evening. It’s beyond my reach due to teaching a night class in Des Moines until 10. It will still be 88 degrees when he starts. Best wishes for a positive event to President Trump and all who attend. Stay hydrated!
The ACLU used to be a respectable organization with principles.
Now it is just evil.
Amazing! Such good news for celebrating our independence and the 4th of July 🎆
God bless America and god bless DJT. He gets shit done!