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Aug 9, 2025 ~ 'Trump Scores Another Win: Apple To Pump $100 Billion More Into U.S. Economy' "Today’s announcement with Apple is another win for our manufacturing industry." "Apple initially announced in February that it would spend $500 billion in U.S. investments during the president’s time in office, including a massive factory in Texas and around 20,000 jobs focused on research and development."   “This is the largest investment Apple has ever made in America and anywhere else,” Trump said, adding that the company is “coming home.”   Apple CEO Cook: "I'm very proud to say that today, we're committing an additional $100 billion to the United States, bringing our total U.S. investment to $600 billion... We believe deeply in the promise of this great nation." [Economics, Economy, Tariffs, Trump Win]
Aug 9, 2025 ~ John Stossel, 'My Socialist Mayor' "Mamdani mocks those of us who fear socialism. He says socialism just means that the state 'provides whatever is necessary for its people to live a dignified life.' Sounds nice. But socialism doesn't bring a dignified life. It never has. It's wrecked lives wherever it's been tried." "Whether you call it the abolition of private property," said Mamdani, "or you call it just a statewide housing guarantee, it is preferable to what is going on right now."   "No! It's not! This idea has failed, again and again! Socialism, in various degrees, was tried and abandoned in the USSR, China, Vietnam, Mongolia, Cambodia, Afghanistan, South Yemen, Myanmar, Angola, Mozambique, Benin, Congo, Ethiopia, Somalia, Tanzania, Zambia, Ghana, Madagascar, Nicaragua, Guyana, Chile, Israel, Sweden, and India. Countries that didn't abandon socialism, like Cuba, Bolivia, and North Korea, stay poor. Venezuela was once the richest country in Latin America. Now it's the poorest."   "Socialism destroyed Venezuela," says Venezuelan-born economist Daniel Di Martino. "No government has the capacity to run thousands of businesses."   "People need capitalism -- a profit motive -- to do that." [Economics, Economy, John Stossel, Poverty, Socialism]
Aug 17, 2025 ~ "Aluminum Producer to Invest $50M in US Jobs as ‘Direct Result‘ of Tariffs" Trump's tariffs are bring more investment into the United States.   "Century Aluminum Co. is planning to create about 100 local jobs at its Berkeley County facility after the plant operated below full capacity for the past decade, the Post and Courier reported. The boost is expected to increase U.S. aluminum production by nearly 10%... Ramping up domestic production was dubbed a 'direct result' of Trump’s trade policies, which includes raising import fees on primary aluminum shipments to 50%." Century Aluminum CEO Jesse Gary said in a statement: "Today’s announcement was made possible by President Trump’s commitment to onshoring manufacturing of critical metals, protecting America’s national security, and to protecting American workers in our industry whose expertise is needed to ensure future generations do not have to rely on foreign supplies to build our communities and grow our economy." [Economics, Economy, Trump Win]
Aug 17, 2025 ~ 'Donald Trump Is Truly Historic'   "If you had to sum up President Trump’s second term so far in one word, you could do worse than 'epic.' Trump may be on the path to the most consequential presidency since Ronald Reagan’s."   In addition to his accomplishments on immigration, trade, peace, tax cuts, NATO, DEI rollback, making tax cuts permanent, DOGE cuts, Medicare reform, ending Iran's nuclear weapons program, etc. "Almost any one of these items would be a notable first-six-months accomplishment, but he’s done them all, with lots of other activity besides. His EPA administrator, Lee Zeldin, and his energy officials are rolling back the left’s climate agenda. Trump defunded public broadcasting and kneecapped the Department of Education (for now). The administration has taken important steps to protect female sports and to keep minors from being subjected to “gender-affirming care.” With brute-force threats, he’s pushed universities into agreements to adopt reforms and probably upended forever the assumption that billions of federal dollars would flow to top universities as a matter of course." [Anti-Semitism, Climate Change, CRT DIE Wokeness, DOGE, Economics, Economy, Environment, Illegal Immigration, Iran, Nato, Rich Lowry, Tariffs, Tax Cuts, Trans, Trans Athletes, Trump Win]
Aug 29, 2025 ~ Reported by Nas on X: @Nas_tech_AI, "Americans pay 8X more than Europeans for the exact same drugs. When Trump uncovered the scam, he gave Big Pharma an ultimatum: 'Cut the prices in 60 days… or make the world pay.'" "$300 in America vs $30 in Germany." Trump's ultimatum: "Slash US prices (and profits). Or raise prices everywhere else to match America's. Do you think Big Pharma would take a $600 billion pay cut?" No. Companies are already responding: "Eli Lilly announces a 170% price increase for Mounjaro (weight loss drug) in the UK." "Eli Lilly admitted exactly why they did it: 'We're raising foreign prices in order to make them lower in the US.'" [Economy, Health Care, Trump Win]
Oct 6, 2025 ~ 'Trump’s Immigration Reset: H-1B and Gold Card Orders Put America First'   "President Donald Trump’s two recent executive orders, one imposing a $100,000 annual fee on H-1B visas and the other launching the “Gold Card” fast-track residency program, represent the most significant immigration reforms in decades. They flip the incentive structure that has for years favored multinational corporations and global outsourcing firms over American workers, while also tackling long-ignored national security risks." [Economy, Immigration, Trump Win]
Oct 18, 2025 ~ 'Trump Tariff Triumph: Stellantis to Invest $13 Billion in Rust Belt, Bringing Overseas Production Back'   "President Donald Trump’s 25 percent tariffs on foreign-made cars have scored the nation’s Rust Belt a major manufacturing victory as Stellantis announces a $13 billion investment and plans to reshore production from overseas." [Economy, Tariffs, Trump Win]
Oct 24, 2025 ~ 'Canada Drops Tariffs on U.S. Aluminum After Vowing to Fight Trump'   "The government of leftist Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney dropped tariffs on American and Chinese imports of steel and aluminum... According to Reuters, the Carney administration lifted steel and aluminum tariffs on American and Canadian goods that had initially been intended as a response to American tariffs on the same Canadian products." [Economy, Tariffs, Trump Win]
Oct 24, 2025 ~ 'Trump Effect: Gas Prices Fall Below $3 a Gallon for First Time in 4 Years'   “President Donald J. Trump’s commitment to unleashing American energy production is bringing relief at the gas pump, with gas prices nearing a four-year low across the country.” [Economy, Trump Win]
Oct 24, 2025 ~ 'Trump Signs Rare Earths Deal with Australian PM Anthony Albanese During White House Meeting'   "President Donald Trump and Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese signed a rare earths and critical minerals deal Monday at the White House during Trump’s latest bilateral meeting with yet another world leader."   Albanese called it an “$8.5 billion pipeline that we have ready to go.” He also said the deal will include joint activities and U.S. investment in Australia, which includes processing:   "There will be a billion dollars contributed from Australia and the United States over the next six months with projects that are immediately available. There’s three groups of projects, ones that are joint activities between Australia and the United States, such as Alcoa. Secondly is projects that will be US investment that the US will undertake in Australia, including processing and then ones that Australia will undertake some as well." [Economy, Trump Win]
Oct 26, 2025 ~ 'The greatness of capitalism and slavery’s negligible impact'   "Democrats love to say that American wealth was built on slavery’s back. Indeed, most recently, Mehdi Hassan explicitly said that slaves, including (especially) Muslim slaves) built America, by which he obviously means America’s current wealth. This is a lie. 'The Capitalist Revolution' is responsible for the middle class of citizens and the explosion of wealth in the Western World. Slavery was not."   "Consider this graph showing GDP since the year 1000 Anno Domini. And consider that if you began the graph as far back as the Bronze Age, it would look the same, with the vast majority of people living at a subsistence level, supporting a tiny number of royals living at their expense. All this changed with the capitalist revolution."   "At the time of the Civil War, only 2% of the population, which is truly a tiny number, owned slaves. Only a few became wealthy from slavery. King Cotton accounted for only 5% of our nation’s gross domestic product. If there was any truth at all to the outrageous claims of the importance of slavery to our nation’s wealth, the Civil War and the end of slavery should have brought about a depression. And yet the GDP of America grew between 1860 and 1870 as if neither the Civil War nor slavery’s complete end ever occurred." [CRT DIE Wokeness, Economics, Economy, Slavery]

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