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Data Center Dividends

Turning Virginia’s Tech Boom into Taxpayer Wins

Virginia stands at the epicenter of the global data revolution, hosting over 300 data centers in Northern Virginia alone —the densest concentration worldwide, which handles approximately 70% of global internet traffic. This boom has fueled economic growth, but it’s time we ensure it benefits everyday Virginians, not just Big Tech and foreign workers.

The Hidden Costs of Virginia’s Data Center Dominance

Over the past decade, Northern Virginia has seen explosive growth, with permits for 54 new data centers filed in the first nine months of 2025 alone. These facilities support an industry that generated $31.4 billion in economic output and 78,140 jobs in 2023, including 12,140 operational roles. Sounds great, right? But dig deeper: many high-skilled positions are filled by H-1B visa holders, often overlooking qualified American workers due to lower costs and sponsorship incentives. With President Trump’s recent $100,000 H-1B fee hike, this could shift dynamics, but it underscores our need for policies that prioritize U.S. citizens, echoing our commitment to secure borders and strong national defense.

The real drain? Resources. Data centers now consume over 25% of Virginia’s electricity, with peak usage hitting 2.8 gigawatts in 2022—enough to power 750,000 homes per new facility. Water usage is equally staggering: Northern Virginia’s centers consumed nearly 2 billion gallons in 2023, a 63% increase from 2019, ranking them among the top 10 water-consuming industries nationwide. They also demand precious metals for hardware, bidding up costs that ripple into higher electricity, water, and even food prices for all Virginians.

Politicians sweeten the deal with massive tax breaks, like the sales and use tax exemption on equipment—extended through 2035—costing the state billions while average families shoulder income and property taxes. Meanwhile, these centers serve global users—from a beach in Bali to boardrooms in Beijing—who pay nothing toward Virginia’s infrastructure. Locally, we’re losing green spaces to concrete monoliths, threatening historic lands, ecosystems, and contributing to noise, light pollution, and diesel generator emissions that degrade air quality.

Why Green Mandates Miss the Mark

Some propose slapping solar panels on data centers, backed by tax credits and net metering that lets owners sell power back at retail rates—another subsidy handout. But this ignores reality: the Virginia Clean Economy Act (VCEA), pushing for 100% carbon-free electricity by 2050, has already driven an 11% rise in residential bills and a 23% overall increase in four years. Outlawing reliable fossil fuels while subsidizing intermittent solar and wind only hikes costs further, contradicting our Energy Freedom stance that innovation, not legislation, drives cleaner energy. We need balanced policies embracing fossil fuels and nuclear for reliability, not mandates that burden the poor.

A Bold, Innovative Solution: Data Center Dividends

Here’s the game-changer: Mandate that data centers—vast computing powerhouses—dedicate just 1% of their processing capacity to mining cryptocurrencies, converting the yields into five diverse stablecoins (e.g., USDC, BTC, or others). These digital assets would fund a state-managed wallet, distributed annually as dividends to Virginia taxpayers or credited against their state income taxes.

Data backs the potential: With Virginia’s centers topping 4,900 megawatts (MW) and growing, even 1% utilization could generate millions in value. This isn’t pie-in-the-sky – crypto mining leverages idle compute efficiently, turning a resource drain into revenue. It levels the playing field, ensuring global users indirectly contribute via the centers they rely on. Projections? Based on current crypto markets, this could offset tax breaks (which have recently increased by 1,051%) and provide $500–$1,000 per household annually, easing energy price pressures. As AI and cloud demand surges, this positions Virginia as a blockchain innovator, attracting more investment while protecting our resources.

This aligns perfectly with our mission: Empowering citizens, reducing government overreach, and fostering economic self-reliance. No more subsidies for unreliable energy; instead, harness tech for direct taxpayer benefits.

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The Silent Crisis: How Decades of DEI, Economic Policy, and Cultural Shifts Undermined Men’s Livelihoods

At the Crossroads: Why 2024 Marks a Pivotal Moment for Men’s Economic and Cultural Survival

For decades, policies driven by Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) mandates and Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) initiatives have had a measurable impact on male wages and livelihoods. Yet, the conversation often stops short of connecting the dots. Male labor force participation—especially among prime-age men—has been steadily declining.

These shifts, compounded by cultural expectations and economic pressures from immigration and trade, have left men trapped in a cycle of diminishing opportunities. To reverse this trend, it is imperative to address policies prioritizing equity over merit, dismantle biased family court practices, and recalibrate immigration and education funding to ensure a level playing field. Without such changes, the societal consequences will continue to worsen, be misunderstood, and be misattributed to temporary events like the pandemic, with little chance of ever being resolved.

Standards, Equality, and the Reality of Work

Hiring standards are supposed to be absolute—especially in physically demanding jobs like combat or law enforcement. How efficiently can you move an absolute load like a rucksack or an injured soldier? In Physics, Work is fundamentally a function of force over distance: it doesn’t care about gender. If you push against a wall with all your might but do not move it, in an oft-cited example, you have not done any work. Likewise, if a woman can keep up with a man in every way, without allowances for 10% higher body fat, fewer pull-ups, and other concessions, by all means, she should get a chance to do the job.

Instead, we’ve seen lower standards, yet wages for these jobs remain equal, and as a result, in nearly all cases, women have a greater chance of advancement. Why? Because while the “grunts” do the hard labor, women are freed up for advancement and promotion through politicking. There will also always be men who cover for women and help them do their jobs; it is in their DNA as a man to help not just a damsel in distress but anyone. And in these roles, the women clearly need the help. The dynamic is clear in example after example in law enforcement: many criminals would have no qualms about fighting a weaker male officer, even killing them, to get away. Many of the same criminals still would not strike a female officer and instead, just slither out of her grip and make a getaway. Yet, female officers continue to rise through the ranks in significant numbers, taking up jobs like Sheriff and all levels of law enforcement.

The Data Speaks: Uneven Advancement

Studies from the State Department reveal that women have been advancing professionally at significantly higher rates than men. This isn’t just anecdotal—it’s measurable. The Heritage Foundation did a 14-page report, excerpt below:

The year 2023 is no anomaly. According to a Government Accountability Office (GAO) report, analysis of promotion data from 2002 to 2018 “controlling for factors other than gender that could influence promotion, found that women in the Foreign Service had higher adjusted rates of promotion and higher odds of promotion than men in early to midcareer.”

U.S. Government Accountability Office, “State Department: Additional Steps Are Needed to Identify Potential Barriers to Diversity,” GAO-20-237, February 25, 2020, https://www.gao.gov/products/gao-20-237 (accessed October 24, 2024).

 The GAO analysis found that from 2003 to 2018, “the proportions of women hired at State, both overall and in Class 6 or lower ranks of the Foreign Service, increased,” and that during that time “women in the Foreign Service generally spent fewer years in each rank relative to men,” meaning that they were promoted faster on average.

This is all from just one department in our sprawling bureaucracy. Men often do the foundational work while women climb the ladder, bolstered by policies prioritizing women’s representation in all levels of leadership while not paying lip service to the overrepresentation of men in less prestigious positions that are arguably more essential.

No one is complaining about the lack of women in jobs like construction, trash collection, or the trades. Yet the men who fill these jobs pay the taxes that enable grants and subsidies for college, wherein by the academic year 2021-2022, women earned the majority of post-secondary degrees at every level, accounting for 58.5% of bachelor’s degrees.

The Family Divide: No-Fault Divorce and Custody Bias

The economic challenges don’t stop in the workplace. No-fault divorce laws, combined with a default bias toward awarding custody to mothers, have created an environment where men are systematically disadvantaged. Federal programs even match child support dollars with funding, further incentivizing family courts to rule heavy-handedly on child support obligations, almost always causing men to be overburdened. It is no longer about supporting the children when bureaucracies are incentivized in this manner. This creates a cycle where men are financially drained, while women hold a disproportionate amount of power in family dynamics, with the threat of Divorce always looming.

The Economic Squeeze: Immigration and Trade Policies

On top of these domestic pressures, economic policies have compounded the issue. The importation of blue-collar workers from South America suppresses wages for working-class men, while H-1B visas suppress salaries in white-collar industries. Meanwhile, jobs are exported through asymmetric trade agreements, leaving sane, able-bodied men squeezed from both ends of the labor spectrum. Few men would prefer to engage in hobbies aimlessly and do the bare minimum amount of work if they had reasonable options, with opportunities for advancement being key.

The Cultural Fallout: Unrealistic Expectations and Mutual Misery

Despite these systemic disadvantages, cultural and biological expectations remain unchanged. Women still expect men to earn and provide more, creating a double bind. Men are falling behind economically, yet they’re still expected to meet traditional roles. This dynamic breeds dissatisfaction on both sides. Women feel unfulfilled, unable to “settle,” while most men feel undervalued and trapped in an unwinnable game, while the top 10% have too many options of women to settle down with any single one. For those couples that do make it work, it is increasingly common for women to earn 50% or more of the total household income, pushing them to breadwinner status. However, men are still unable to get pregnant or breastfeed, meaning even breadwinner women have to fulfill all their motherly duties, leaving them burnt out.

Policy as the Path Forward

The only way forward is unrelenting changes to the policy measures that led us here. Some examples include

  • Ending No-Fault Divorce to incentivize couples to make things work except in cases of abuse or infidelity
  • Ending default custody of children to the mother; studies show single-mother homes have the worst outcomes for both boys and girls
  • Ending diversity quotas in hiring, including preference for female candidates; gender/sex should not even be a question on job applications
  • Ending college grants and subsidized loans; level the playing field and let people choose their career path without dragging the taxpayer into it
  • Put a pause on H1B and similar visas and end illegal immigration until the labor force participation rate of prime-age males returns to what it used to be at its peak

The Urgency of Acknowledgment

It’s crucial to lay this all out—not just for the sake of documenting the reality but to ensure the true causes of this crisis aren’t forgotten or misattributed to convenient scapegoats like COVID-19. The damage is already significant, but if we fail to acknowledge it now, we risk erasing the lessons that could help future generations.

In the end, fixing these issues may not be credited to those who sounded the alarm early. But getting it on the record matters. Let history show that these challenges were real, systemic, and, most importantly, preventable.

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Reaffirming Peace Through Strength: America’s Path Back to Global Leadership

How the Trump Administration’s Strategy Can Restore American Strength, Economic Vitality, and Global Leadership

In geopolitics, “peace through strength” remains a time-tested strategy for maintaining global order. Under the UN-aligned foreign policy of first the Obama administration and now the Biden administration, America’s hegemony has been successfully and substantially undermined, allowing regional powers like China and Russia to exploit the resulting vacuum and, at the same time, emboldening otherwise unformidable adversaries like Iran and North Korea. The remedy most favorable not only to Americans but also to the maximum number of people worldwide is re-establishing America as the global economic and military superpower to safeguard its interests and ensure that malignant actors do not set the world’s agenda.

The Obama-Biden Legacy of Weakness

The Obama-Biden administrations set precedents that showed weakness and subtly strengthened America’s adversaries, laying the groundwork for prolonged conflicts still occurring today, costing hundreds of thousands of lives combined.

As documented in Oliver Stone’s film “Ukraine on Fire,” the Obama administration actively plotted regime change, removing democratically elected Victor Yanukovich and installing a pro-western administration. The region enjoyed a brief period of peace through strength under President Trump’s first administration, during which Russia did not annex more territory. However, once Biden came into office, by first displaying extreme weakness in the Afghanistan withdrawal and later in Eastern Europe, they provided opportunities for Russia to flex its military might unchecked, with disastrous consequences. Biden ceded NATO leadership to Boris Johnson as he urged Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to break off peace talks with Russia in April of 2022. Since then, the meat grinder has continued to churn as the Biden administration refuses any negotiation with Putin while sending billions of dollars worth of bombs and munitions to continue the war.

In the Middle East, Obama’s Iran deal strengthened Iran, enabling its proxies, Hezbollah and Hamas, to thrive. Billions of dollars flowed into Iran’s coffers via unfreezing assets, cash transfers, and nuclear agreements, fungible funds that they use to fuel terrorism. The result has been an enduring cycle of conflict, instability, and humanitarian crises. It was likely these funds that allowed Hamas to plot and carry out the 10/7 attack with the confidence of Iranian backing to continue the fight. Similarly, Hezbollah-linked groups like the Houthis in Yemen have been emboldened, firing rockets at IDF forces and Western merchant ships.

These conflicts draw billions of dollars worth of military equipment, bombs, and security services from US Military Contractors. Thus, America’s deep state and the five largest military contractors (Boeing, General Dynamics, Raytheon, Lockheed Martin, and Northrop Grumman) are satisfied with letting the tensions continue and escalate, with any talks of abatement or ceasefire being crushed or sidelined by renewed forms of escalation. Still, knowing any serious escalation would lead to nuclear Armageddon, strategic advances that would swiftly bring an end to the wars are also argued off the table.

Economic Illusions and the Cost of War

Wars often present an illusion of economic vitality, a concept captured by the Broken Window Fallacy. The destruction caused by conflict demands reconstruction, creating jobs, and generating activity, as goes the logic. However, in these conflicts, the destruction is overseas, and the draw on the bottomless pit of US taxpayer funding is enough incentive alone. However, this is not true growth; it is an expensive diversion of resources that could have been deployed to create enduring prosperity at home and abroad. It is also impossible to quantify the loss in terms of death and human suffering.

President Trump understands this better than any world leader on the current stage. His next administration should continue where the last one left off by re-establishing negotiations among world leaders, the fruit of which will be cease-fires, peace deals, and, later on, freer trade. This will also work to re-establish American military and economic dominance. These talks will demonstrate the Trump administration’s use of all levers, including economic sanctions, tariffs, and military response, for anyone refusing to negotiate. As is rumored to already be underway at Mar-a-Lago, Trump can thread the needle between supporting our allies Israel and Western Europe and seeking compromises with our fr-enemies with long-term international trade one of many bargaining chips. This does not require a blank check for endless Pentagon and intelligence agency expenditures with no clear strategy for closing the wars.

The military-industrial complex, left unchecked, risks perpetuating inefficiency. In the same spirit that Trump’s new Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) advocates for smaller government through cutting waste, fraud, and abuse in the sprawling federal bureaucracy, there is an urgent need to streamline military expenditures, one of the largest line items in the budget. There are countless examples from the Iraq and Afghanistan wars where contractors had every incentive to keep the wars going strong to pad their pockets. Examples include $100 per load of laundry for US troops paid to Halliburton/KBR or a $1B contract to James Biden’s employer to build housing in Iraq that eventually fell through.

However, strategic contracting using smaller private military contractors (PMCs) and proper guardrails can ensure competition, which brings accountability, efficiency, and innovation—qualities often absent in Pentagon mega-contracts largely controlled by the big five. Once established, bureaucratic institutions such as new departments within the Department of Defense require extraordinary measures and endless discussions before being disbanded. They almost never are. This extends to the military, whose top brass, as sharp as they are, mostly do not hold MBAs or come from a cost-sensitive business background.

Under the right kind of careful management, the Trump administration can bring the wars to a swift close by supplementing the armed forces with key supporting personnel and services outsourced to smaller contractors who can bring innovative solutions and strategic partnerships (with proper vetting). By implementing firings, which Trump has been known to use since the 15 seasons of The Apprentice, any failure or quality of work issues could lead to near-immediate contract termination, allowing a more effective replacement to fill the void and get the job done.  

Lessons from COVID-19: A Supply Crisis Leading to Stagflation

Domestically, the COVID-19 pandemic highlighted the perils of terrible economic policy. Lockdowns, implemented mainly at the state or local level in the States, disrupted global supply chains, halting production and slashing real GDP growth. In response, the Fed massively inflated the money supply, papering over the problems and devaluing the dollar. Inflation surged, first in asset prices, followed by consumer prices, and everyday Americans continue to bear the brunt of rising prices, outpacing wage growth.

The damage is done. There’s no way to reverse the money supply inflation without crashing the economy. The Fed’s attempts to rein in inflation by raising interest rates have only led to a stagnating economy, forcing it to reverse course in the fall of 2024. Raising the Fed funds rate further would have continued to dampen the economy, reduce tax revenues, and leave America unable to pay the interest on the national debt.

The currency printed during the past decade is already circulating in the economy, so some level of asset- and consumer-price inflation is inevitable. The best solution, however, lies in rising to the challenge: boosting real GDP growth and ensuring that every American citizen contributes to the economy. Under the Biden-Harris administration, most jobs have either gone to foreign-born workers, been outsourced overseas, or have been replaced by capital investment (read: so-called AI). Longstanding economic policies have led to this situation. For example, high payroll taxes have led large employers to substitute with capital investment, especially IT. Other regulations like state and local minimum wages have just led the big companies to install kiosks rather than hire more workers, while many mom-and-pop restaurants have shuttered.

Shareholders can’t get enough of this, as service quality and job satisfaction decline while the bottom line grows. Special visa schemes (H1B, H4EAD) have allowed companies to hire foreign workers at a discount, leaving American citizens with college debt and no meaningful jobs to pay it back. The failure at the border has led to millions of low-skilled and blue-collar illegal immigrants flooding the economy, allowing companies to take advantage by quietly skirting labor laws like overtime and minimum wage. These well-intentioned laws then act only as a discriminant against anyone with US citizenship as they’re subject to Department of Labor “protections” and are seen as more of a risk of expensive lawsuits against their would-be employer.

Every able-bodied man should have the opportunity to work or start a business, support their family, and create a foundation for societal stability. This will begin to heal the economic stagnation on Main Street, though admittedly, it will also contribute to inflation due to the money velocity increasing as people get back to work and, as consumer confidence rises, back to spending. In short, resolving economic stagnation makes inflation bearable as it’s coupled with real wage growth and, at the same time, grows tax revenue organically instead of attempting to use monetary policy and endless legislation to bandage up the economy.

Addressing the Root Causes of Economic Malaise

By addressing these issues, America can restore its workforce and leverage its economic engine to power global trade. A robust American economy naturally strengthens the dollar, attracting global capital and ensuring long-term dominance in international markets.

America must lead by example, combining military strength with economic vitality. Reaffirming its role as a global superpower and tackling systemic issues at home can ensure peace and prosperity both within its borders and abroad. The path forward demands bold action, but history has shown that the world follows when America rises to the occasion.

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Trump is Wrong on Universal IVF

According to a recent story from Newsmax, former President Donald Trump said he would consider making IVF free of cost by providing taxpayer funding or mandating insurance companies to cover this expense, which usually costs around $15-$30k per cycle.

If insurance is like privatized socialism, then having specific elements of coverage mandated by government along with the Obamacare individual mandate is like fascism. Notice I said “like,” meaning this is an analogy, and I’m not calling anyone a Nazi, which has become far too common. Instead, I’m simply pointing out that it would be a small step towards a fascistic style of government if private profit-earning companies were highly controlled and manipulated by politicians, whom they, in turn (s)elect.

So long as IVF requires fertilizing eggs, creating embryos, and then discarding several embryos while keeping the ‘wanted’ ones this is just as morally wrong as abortion. It is morally wrong to abort a child just because they’re male or female, or simply because they’re unwanted. It is also wrong to abort a human embryo created as part of an IVF cycle. While we’ve seen the disastrous consequences of people in various countries throughout history discarding babies simply due to gender, we’ve now come to a point where there can be testing for not only genetic defects, but even character traits. Some couples may soon go from shopping for their perfect toy poodle to getting their ideal designer baby paid for by the taxpayer.

The premeditated, purposeful termination of an innocent human life – in vitro in utero – is murder and is completely wrong in all circumstances. In cases of pregnancies gone wrong, doctors should do their best to save the life of the mother without purposefully harming her unborn baby, and attempt to save the baby’s life if at all possible. Medical advances continue to push the envelope on how early in gestation babies born prematurely can survive using incubators and other techniques. If we can discard embryos whenever convenient, can we also pull the plug on premies at will?

Trump says “we want more babies” but I would disagree. We don’t just want more babies. Plenty of third world countries have millions of babies born into poverty and in dire circumstances. (Their lives are just as valuable as any other human being.) We want more family formation and babies raised by both a father and mother in a nurturing, supportive environment. This is the ideal family unit that our society should strive towards, despite many less-than-ideal circumstances being not uncommon. We already have plenty of children in less-than-ideal households due to welfare programs that incentivize continued single motherhood, as well as no-fault divorce leading to fathers being kicked out of their home, facing a possible reduction of income and/or job loss while continuing to owe child support and facing debtor’s prison if they’re unable to pay.

Universal access to IVF would also open up the floodgates for rampant abuse by LGBTQ couples as well as single individuals who want to have kids solo and can afford to take time off work or send them to daycare. Again, all of these are less-than-ideal environments to raise children – at best.

If we want to ignore the natural order of the universe or God’s law, we can look at outcomes to see the consequences of making babies in vitro and placing them with anyone who can fog a mirror. Lesbians face higher rates of domestic abuse than any other group. Gay men have the highest risk of contracting AIDS or other STDs. Children raised by transgender parents have a high likelihood of identifying as a different gender themselves. So-called gender affirming care, whether through puberty-blocking hormones or genitalia-altering surgeries, is also no solution, as it often leaves those adolescents physically unable to have sex as adults while still having high levels of depression and suicidal ideation.

We have had rampant abortion for 50 years, severely inhibiting traditional family formation and universal IVF would further disincentivize it. With this program there would be no reason for women *not to* abort children well into their thirties. Trump is not even against abortion, as he previously expressed disagreement with Florida’s 6-week ban and supports limits closer to the ‘moment of viability.’ Theoretically, we could soon have a pipeline (read: racket) of taxpayer-funded IVF, followed by convenient changes of heart around the 20-week mark, abortion at taxpayer-supported Planned Parenthood, and finally sale of large, well developed fetal organs and body parts to biomedical groups like StemExpress.

Trump was a lot more careful to cater to Christians in his last term. “As President, he appointed an anti-IVF extremist to the federal bench, proposed a rule to allow health care workers to deny IVF to LGBTQ couples, and hosted the Alabama judge who banned IVF at White House,” Harris campaign spokesman Kevin Munoz said. His judicial appointments also allowed for Roe v Wade to be overturned, returning the issue to the states to individually decide on. Issues with IVF should also be allowed to be governed by individual states, as was seen in the Alabama Supreme Court’s ruling concluding that frozen embryos were protected by the Wrongful Death of a Minor Act.

It’s shameful that not many want to provide the same type of funding and support for making adoption an easy and more viable option, both for the would-be mother who is considering aborting, as well as for the responsible couple that perhaps can’t conceive. The flourishing of America lies in these key issues, so hopefully President Trump can first win the election and then see the truth of the matter and adjust his policies accordingly, campaign promises be damned.

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Mark Cuban’s Math Doesn’t Add Up

Trump’s economic policies, taken holistically, illustrate the ingenuity Cuban and millions of others fail to recognize.

In a momentous X Post, Mark Cuban purports to simplify the math on why Democrat policy on tariffs and trade is superior to Trump’s.

Here’s the text from the post:

This is a subject that strikes close to home for me from multiple angles. In college, I studied Economics at a school heavily influenced by the Koch brothers and am a fervent supporter of Austrian Economics – F. A. Hayek over John Maynard Keynes. I strongly supported the Ron Paul for 2012 Campaign and considered myself a libertarian – that is, until Trump came down that infamous escalator.

Although I supported many of Trump’s campaign promises, such as building the wall in 2016 early on, I could not get over the fact that his call for Tariffs went against everything I’d learned in college and everything I’d read since then. I sat in my car at my polling station in 2016, still unsure of whether to vote for him or Gary Johnson, as I lived in heavily blue Northern Virginia at the time, but I finally bit the bullet and voted for Trump with a big grin on my face. I haven’t looked back ever since, and supported him vehemently through 2020 to this day.

I liked Trump’s negotiations around NAFTA as well as with China, but couldn’t bridge the gap to explain the theoretical underpinning from an academic perspective. I also ran a solar company during his presidency and got caught up in the fear-mongering from all sides about the effects of tariffs, which led my partner and I to purchase a large load of inventory before (as vendors told us) the prices went way up due to the impending tariffs. They never did. In fact, the panels quickly became obsolete with newer and better (read: larger) panels hitting the market at prices not much higher. One company that was supplying us with steel beams from Germany that were used on many Washington, DC row house roofs stopped exporting to the States; however, we made do with substitutions.

The Results Speak for Themselves

What was the overall result of Trump’s presidency? Did we get rampant consumer price inflation? No. Perhaps some asset price inflation. The massive supply of energy to all sectors may have brought prices down to counteract any increases from tariffs. If tariffs did raise prices in pockets of the economy, it was also less noticeable because American citizens had good-paying jobs. We reduced the importation of cheap labor – both illegal and H1B – limiting immigration to only fill true shortages, not to drive wages down infinitely, putting Citizens out of work while employing foreign workers exclusively.

All Policies Are Incentives

It’s not about who “pays” tariffs (or taxes for that matter). It’s about what incentives they create or take away. A tariff is just as much an incentive to produce goods or inputs here instead of importing them from a particular country. Imports could also come from a different trading partner more willing to play ball. So Cuban is wrong in his very first assumption – assuming the company imports all their goods from a particular country. This is not set in stone. When incentives change, the invisible hand allows for all sorts of substitutions to circumvent the obstacle.

And other countries subsidize their exports or put tariffs on our goods all the time. They sometimes engage in even more nefarious tactics like flooding the market with cheap goods to drain their international competitors of funds, or even manipulate their currency to favor their exports.

So Trump, on multiple fronts, used this powerful policy lever to negotiate, often bluffing or using tactics no other politician or pundit could even fathom. That’s what sets him apart from everyone else – he’s one of a kind both in business and politics. There are plenty of Mark Cuban–type moguls who didn’t stumble upon their wealth but may not be in favor of improving the lot of all American citizens – despite their empty rhetoric. Trump can see all that and do what’s right for the country’s citizens when everyone else is just looking at the math and inevitably okay with globalists manufacturing everything with slave labor overseas and keeping all the profits to buy politicians in America and extend the status quo.

Rising Tide Lifting All Boats vs Race to the Bottom

This gets to the heart of the battle between globalism and nationalism (or patriotism for a more positive connotation). We all want lower prices. Globalism promises that by outsourcing all the manufacturing to anywhere in the world. Even if a country lets its producers get away with slave labor, they are able to bid for contracts for large global companies that turn a blind eye to injustices and downright dangerous conditions for that country’s workers. There is no incentive to improve things. Environmental concerns are also ignored.

Meanwhile, here at home, we face stagflation and are unable to pay our debts as a country while many shareholders both here and abroad are building personal fortunes. Productive jobs have been shipped overseas, while businesses exploit the H1B visa system to drive down wages for the few jobs remaining state-side. The border is wide open, and the country has been flooded with illegal immigrants. Businesses are incentivized to hire illegal immigrants not because they work harder but because businesses are then able to circumvent expensive labor laws like overtime pay and benefits mandated for US Citizens.

On the other hand, to the extent that Trump’s tariffs lead to companies substituting imports for American-sourced, American-made goods, if other countries want to compete in the American market (which they almost universally do), they have to rise to our standards, thereby improving the conditions for their own population along the way.

Middle America – Heart of Conservatism

Only in America did the founders create a system where States’ rights are paramount. Via the Electoral College, larger states are apportioned more electors regardless of population. This means areas with more rural populations, often the perfect place for productive activity from agriculture to mining to large production facilities, still get a voice and aren’t drowned out by major population centers that are dominated by service sector industries. It should be no surprise that with the pervasive globalism of the last several decades America has shifted from a production economy to one almost exclusively driven by the services, as is evident from the trade deficit. We should have love for our fellow countrymen and women in Appalachia, flyover country, major cities; from sea to shining sea. Only then can we restore America to her former glory and be the high watermark for other nations to strive toward.

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Legalize Weed, Abolish Abortion

Celebrating 4/20 in Wynwood – While Protecting the Unborn

Watch this new video from Liberty Republicans in Wynwood, Miami, FL. We discuss Florida’s upcoming ballot measures on Marijuana and Abortion.

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Protect the Unborn in Florida this November

Vote NO on Florida Amendment 4

Florida approved multiple ballot measures, including Florida Amendment 4, Right to Abortion Initiative (2024).

The text of the Amendment reads: “Except as provided in Article X, Section 22, no law shall prohibit, penalize, delay, or restrict abortion before viability or when necessary to protect the patient’s health, as determined by the patient’s healthcare provider.” (Emphasis added)

“Healthcare provider” is left undefined. This means anyone could be considered a “healthcare provider” – even the medical assistant at the abortion clinic or Planned Parenthood.

“Viability” is also undefined and completely open to interpretation. According to ACOG “Clinicians most commonly focus on the periviable period, which refers to weeks 20 through 25 and 6 days of a pregnancy.”

However, the second clause in the Amendment starting with the tiny but massively significant word ‘or’ can completely override viability.

This law would effectively allow completely unrestricted abortion as any “healthcare provider” would have full discretion in determining the abortion is “necessary to protect the patient’s health.”

Make no mistake about it, if this Amendment passes, it would enshrine a constitutional right to abortion in Florida, as is evident from the title of the Amendment.

If you’re still on the fence, see the details for yourself at Ballotpedia.org.

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The Only Way to End WWIII

The only solution to conflicts in the Middle East, Ukraine, and at the US-Mexico border is peace. The only person both willing and able to negotiate peace is Donald Trump.

As the inferno of WWIII heats up, the 2024 election cycle moves along with little fanfare. The Democrat Party has continued perpetuating the farce that Biden-Harris will remain in office for a second term. There’s not much in the way of a viable alternative candidate apart from loads of speculation about California Governor Gavin Newsome and Michelle Obama taking the reigns.

Meanwhile, on top of attempting to remove his name from ballots, and political persecutions from every direction, Biden’s justice department is warning the Trump campaign against using donations to pay for the $83M fine from the E. Jean Carroll trial.

This is why we’re saying if you are not actively supporting the Trump campaign in some way, shape, or form – which could be as simple as convincing your friends and family that he’s the only one who can unite the country – then you are by no means neutral. Unfortunately in the current environment, there is no neutral. This is not the boring Clinton Dynasty vs Bush Dynasty election many powerful oligarchs had hoped for leading up to the 2016 election. (In case you forgot, Jeb Bush was in the Republican primary, hiding in the corner barely making a dent in polls despite a nine-figure campaign budget and near-universal name recognition).

By attempting to stay neutral, you are actively helping the following groups use your tax dollars as well as profits from every corporation whose products you buy and whose services you use on a daily basis to persecute and destroy Trump, his would-be voters, and America as a sovereign nation:

1) The Biden Administration including his Department of Justice, members of his cabinet, and other mostly anonymous behind-the-scenes White House staff (Biden’s “handlers”).

c) The entire Deep State, including the CIA, NSA, and 15 other intelligence agencies.

d) NY Attorney General Leticia James and Fulton County, GA District Attorney Fani Willis, loud and boastful about their very political persecutions (not prosecutions).

e) The World Economic Forum (WEF) which recently met in Davos, Switzerland including executives of major media conglomerates and big tech companies who work in concert to control the narrative that you and all your peers see, hear, and read. We cannot find a neutral-on-Trump article on any regular search engine anymore let alone alternatives like DuckDuckGo or Brave Search. Most Americans do not even try to seek out information on their own, and instead simply internalize whatever information they come across. Over the past decade, most platforms have been heavily influenced by bots, censorship, deplatforming, and algorithmic manipulation by their owners. Only those of us who have been #MAGA since 2015 know where exactly to go online to find nuggets of truth. YouTube is the world’s second largest search engine, and almost all search results are from mainstream media sources, unless you type in the exact name of an alternative media video or source. Fox News and similar contrarian-looking sources are also there to make the average person think there is an opposition whose argument they fully understand and disagree with, while they really don’t even have a full picture or any critical questioning of the official narratives.

f) The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and associated companies such as CEFC, which have well-documented business dealings with the Biden crime family.

g) Corrupt Ukrainian political actors who have business relationships with the Biden crime family. Watch Oliver Stone’s documentary about the Obama administration actions there in 2014. This is just a continuation.

“If you don’t want Russia to fight Ukraine, don’t let the US government use Ukraine to fight Russia”, his statement reads. “NATO exists to funnel money to US arms manufacturers. The US wants conflict with Russia to sell more arms to NATO members. This is a war for US war profiteers”. –Kim Dotcom

h) Neoconservative and RINO (Republican In Name Only) warmongers like Nikki Haley, Lyndsey Graham, the Bush family, the Dick Cheney and daughter Liz, et al (aka “Never Trump” Republicans).

i) Democrat warmongers like the Clinton and the Obama war-crime families.

j) Mega rich right-libertarian-leaning oligarchs like the Open Borders™️ Koch Brothers who lobby for continuous illegal labor because the profits go to the top (shareholders) and workers are exploited.

k) Drug cartels and drug dealers of every stripe.

l) Human traffickers and pimps, not just at the border but all over the interior.

m) United Nations (UN) NGO’s funding and supplying so-called migrant caravans to destabilize and weaken America. They are after power just like any politician. You think the US federal government has power? Wait until you see globalist politicians truly usurp power for themselves at the international level. We saw glimpses of this during the COVID19 pandemic, but if left unchallenged we will be subjects of a unified international ruling government a la 1984.

n) Mega-rich fascists masquerading as Democratic Socialist oligarchs like billionaire George Soros who is actively installing (through a web of money-moving entities) District Attorneys who decriminalize crime and remove bail requirements, leading to first “catch and release” of criminals, followed by police saying “why even bother” and neglecting to put their lives in harm’s way to even respond to calls – in every major city in the USA. Coming soon to a town near you.

o) Bill Gates.

p) Anyone else who wants war abroad (not covered in domestic “warmongers” above). This includes Israeli Zionists who fund AIPAC which is the largest lobby controlling nearly every federal legislator. Some of these people support genocide against the Palestinians, using the 10/7 attack as justification. (Which arguably gives them enormous incentive to allow the attack if not orchestrate it, but more on that later.) On the flip side, it also includes Iran’s Theocratic leader, as well as related-but-different groups like Hezbollah, Hamas, the Muslim Brotherhood, and other Islamist factions in the Levant. If you are anti-Israel (seeing them as terrorist state) and pro-Palestine and therefore have some sympathy for these Islamist groups, then please continue thinking through this chess game and see where it leads, not just for Muslims in the Middle East, but for all citizens of the World. Ask someone who knows about 9/11 and how it was a masterful Mossad-led plot to draw the USA into a multiple decades-long and multi-front “War on Terror,” of bloodshed, destruction, and economic weakening of America. All while enriching every household between Richmond and Baltimore either directly (through work for federal government agencies or Department of Defense contractors like Raytheon, Northrop Grumman, Lockheed Martin, and countless others) or indirectly through economic ripple effect. This group is very large and it is unfortunate that they have an outsize influence on the foreign policy of the United States.

q) Anyone else abroad taking US State Department orders (like Pakistan’s dictator Nawaz Sharif) while enriching themselves.

If you don’t see truth to anything above I beg you not to turn back to your sit-coms, movies, YouTube, or sports. Think about it deeply and seek out the truth. Many of the links above may be erased or unfindable in the very near future, as global governments continue to clamp down on free speech through regulations, censorship, or putting contrarian voices out of business.

Nothing is more important in the world right now. I urge you, reader, to stop taking the easy/convenient way out, you’re not a child. We’re all in this together and are living through major historic events that will shape our future.

We need PEACE and peacemakers. It is not even a cliche because no one is talking about it anymore. Fighting back against the Israeli genocide through guerrilla groups and Iranian-backed proxies is futile at best. It could lead to a Nuclear Holocaust at worst. The swiftest end would be impeaching figurehead Biden, Trump winning in November, and immediately negotiating PEACE deals everywhere.

Any physical altercation at the US-México border between pro-Trump patriots/Texas National Guard and the Federal CBP/law enforcement will also lead to clamp down on “domestic terrorists” aka anyone who voted for or supported Trump in any way, ever. Almost no one in positions of power (public or behind-the-scenes) right now actually even wants peace.

Don’t believe their propaganda and lies. Only Trump brought relative peace, security, and productivity to the World until the list of groups above unleashed COVID-19 and the bioweapon-“cures.” #MAGA

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Prevent Violence at the Texas-Mexico Border

In light of the dispute between the Biden Administration and Texas Governor Greg Abbott we must refrain from using violence and seek to negotiate peace.

Jan 26, 2024 by Nawazish Siddiqui

In case you don’t know, we have an impending 1861-type situation at the Texas-Mexico border.

The writing is on the wall and has been there for 5-10 years at minimum, getting clearer and clearer by the day. We as Americans have been complacent through censorship campaigns of all types. Since 9/11 media and government have been censoring anyone asking questions they don’t have answers for.  Wikileaks showed us firsthand the destruction and loss of innocent life caused by our government’s foreign wars. During the COVID-19 Pandemic facts and discussion about potential treatments were being censored in favor of propaganda and hardline dictates about face covering, injections, and contact tracing. Through this all, even being told we have near universal surveillance via Edward Snowden’s whistleblower revelations, we’ve all been too scared to speak up and risk giving up what precious little we have (or think we have!) for fear of being canceled and losing our bread and butter.

Now, more than ever, if we don’t band together and unify behind former President Trump, we are doomed as an independent sovereign country.

Even if you are a rich American, what good is your wealth if we could be locked down again overnight? Our rogue government has turned authoritarian and could tell us there is some sort of crisis and that we can no longer travel more than 5 miles away from our primary residence. They could leverage their technocratic surveillance of American citizens to enforce this, with fines or imprisonment.

You may think that you would be okay in such a situation due to personal savings. However, if all of your wealth is digital, do you truly have and hold anything? Even a natural disaster could knock out your access to wealth in a matter of hours; we don’t even have to dig too far into other possibilities like cyberattacks, which are also increasing.

Divide and Conquer

The divide and conquer strategy used by our government has been playing out in many different ways!

During the Covid-19 Pandemic, we were divided visibly as well as socially. There were those who went maskless vs those with masks on, jabbed or not jabbed, people losing their right to travel, losing jobs, and entertainment privileges. The vaccine card became a precursor to a digital ID and China-style social credit score.

Border Policy

The divisiveness of Trump’s 2016 campaign promise to “Build the Wall” was self-evident and was latched onto by the Media to paint Trump as a racist bigot. The open borders agenda has now been weaponized in Biden’s first term. Through the regime’s active processing, transporting, and hosting in various US cities at taxpayer expense they’ve purposefully incentivized millions of illegal immigrants to enter the country since January 2021. Pundits on the right and left speculate whether this is done to give Biden and Democrats a chance to garner more votes in the upcoming election, or for Democrats to gain more votes in elections all over the country in the coming years.

Although this may be part of the motive, the primary short-term goal is to provoke us all to hate each other and be at each other’s throats, feeling powerless to change anything, and ultimately resorting to violence.

Any amount of violence by Trump supporters will be magnified and used for further political persecution.

Citizens across the political spectrum – but especially Trump supporters – have to refrain from playing right into the hands of the liberal elite orchestrating this sequence of events and control our emotions.

Think about the third world and the developing world: of course anyone living there pursuing rational self-interest, safety, and security for themselves and their family will want to enter the United States if they had the chance. Although this is opportunistic of them, we mustn’t direct our anger towards them and instead blame those responsible, namely the Biden regime, as anger directed toward otherwise innocent individuals or families is misguided and futile. Though they are technically breaking the law by entering the country illegally, they are being more or less waved in by our own uniformed authorities just like many of the patriots at the capital on January 6th were waved in by police officers and guided through the corridors between velvet ropes. This does not ignore the fact that many of those entering have ulterior motives and may include foreign spies, terrorists, human- and drug-traffickers, and other criminals of all stripes.

On the other hand, if you are someone that supports unchecked immigration even while it’s technically illegal, aka open borders, you should understand that of course American citizens, pursuing rational self-interest, safety, and security for themselves and their families will object to immigrants having *priority* by being given housing and shelter paid for by every dollar-holder / taxpayer. You should also not be surprised when some fallible citizens resort to bigotry and name-calling out of frustration, as they see their savings dwindle away, the cost-of-living rising, as they’re barely able to afford necessities like housing, transportation, and food. Meanwhile undocumented immigrants are put up in hotels in various cities at taxpayer expense, bidding up rent prices and raising the cost of public services paid for by average citizens.

However, in light of all this, yielding to our emotions and resorting to violence and extreme rhetoric will only exacerbate the tensions. We all have to love each other and come by our neighbors’ sides – especially the ones we disagree with and who many of us may even consider to be our enemies.

We must unite, avoid violence, and come to a peaceable, efficacious solution under the guidance and leadership of former president Trump.

This is a deal breaker. In the current state of affairs, it absolutely must be Donald Trump, as long as he’s alive and able-bodied. (If you do not see that – we will help you see that. Visit our website or ask questions.)

If you, on the other hand, have a different person who you think is both willing and able to lead us to a swift conclusion to the border crisis not involving bloodshed, then we’re all ears. This nominated person must be both willing, and able – that means relevant. If you nominate Ron DeSantis for example, this is incorrect as he just proved his inability, dropping out of the Republican Primaries. Most others have the ability but have demonstrated no willingness to even uphold a border and are instead actively undermining immigration laws while feigning compassion.  

Consume Less, Do More

We have to spread the word, not to those who agree with us, but rather we must prioritize evangelizing to those who don’t know or disagree with us about the truth of the matter.

We must do more than just raise awareness, however. We can do a number of things other than sharing content online and talking to our peers and neighbors in the real world.

Legislatively, we can nominate and support grassroots candidates who support Donald Trump’s leadership for every office from school board to state legislature to Congress.

Executive action can take the form of helping to fill seats in the local, state, and federal bureaucracy with like-minded patriots. The Heritage Foundation’s Project 2025 is a step in the right direction, so if you know someone who is a good candidate, nominate them on Project2025.org.

Judicially, we can file class-action lawsuits against actions by the Biden administration, banding together with a group of people affected directly or indirectly by those executive orders or policy initiatives. If the administration’s lack of enforcement and negligence of its duties led to physical, emotional, or financial harm to a particular group, they can and should sue the local and/or federal bureaucrats who carried this out. One example is the case of the NY students forced to give up their high school to house a large group of illegal immigrants.

We should also make infamous District Attorneys who have been installed by Soros’ Open Society-backed organizations and have them removed for allowing lawlessness to fester in our cities.

What We Should NOT Do

We must certainly not take-up arms in any way, shape, or form against our fellow citizens, federal government agents, members of law enforcement, etc. This would play right into the hands of the Biden regime as they would use it to incarcerate anyone physically present at an altercation, and paint anyone even remotely involved through communications as an extremist right-wing terrorist. Our actions must show that we do not fit the label, as our speech and communications are being censored, drowned out, and overridden by government propaganda using Big Media as a megaphone.

We must come by the side of immigrant families and help them to the extent that we can, until President Trump takes office in January 2025 and proceeds with deportation or other counter measures. We must let the aggressors (the Federal Government) do what they’re going to do, and peacefully protest using our words and speech. Agents of the Federal Government tasked with removing border barriers or processing illegal immigrants as they arrive *must not* be harmed, but rather they should be convinced of the fact that the orders they’re following are immoral and illegal. We should pray they have the discernment to see the truth and the courage to do the right thing.

We must lovingly come by the side of our fellow citizens across the aisle and across the political spectrum, and demonstrate to them the plethora of issues with the Biden regime’s policy, so they may open their hardened hearts and see the light of truth.

If the majority of American citizens see the truth and join our cause, the tides will turn in our favor as they hold influence over those that are tasked with carrying out or implementing federal policy, at least until inauguration day in 2025.

Any form of violence will simply lead to bloodshed and will be pinned 100% on Trump supporters, with the media already labeling them as domestic terrorists. It will be January 6th magnified by 1000.

Bottom Line:

DO NOT USE VIOLENCE. PERIOD.

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Legislative Action

Politically, all bets are off, everyone is well-aware of all the destructive policies our government is enacting without our consent. Sharing videos for clicks and views only goes so far. The time to LOG OFF and STAND UP is now!

We do have a choice. We can go down with the ship in a blaze of authoritarian glory or correct our course as a nation. We have everything we need to build a thriving economy, give every American a chance at a good education, well-paying job, or a thriving small business, massively reduce crime in our communities, and become a country the world can aspire to be like once again. The one key ingredient we are missing is a government that represents the everyday people of this country. So let’s change that. We are going to recruit hundreds of Liberty Republicans to run the biggest campaigns this country has ever seen, from school board to Congress, and we’re going to replace every politician in America that puts the needs of their personal wealth, their globalist agenda, and their corporate donors above people.

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