Politics And The Markets 08/19/23

If you have been in business, sometimes customers leave you and sometimes you leave a customer. There are many reasons for this happening but it does happen and the company needs to adjust. I would say this happened to me at least 10 times in my career of running a sizeable business. Sometimes it is planned and discussed so both sides can adjust, sometimes it just happens depending the the reasons. In my experience, even though there is disruption, both sides survive. This break from China seems the same to me.

[The U.S.'s trade ties with China are fraying amid deepening conflict between the world's two biggest economies, The Wall Street Journal reports. Chinese goods made up 13% of U.S. imports during the first six months of this year — the lowest level since 2003. The peak was nearly 22% in 2017. U.S. buyers are sourcing goods ranging from clothes to computer chips from Mexico, Europe and other parts of Asia instead of China, The Journal notes.]

"BREAKING: Newly released TwitterFiles evidence shows @vanitaguptaCR demanded censorship of the @jamesokeefeiii Twitter video on GA voter registration irregularities DAYS BEFORE she announced her nomination to No. 3 official in Garland’s DOJ

Via @TexasLindsay_ CC @elonmusk THREAD" twitter.com/...
— James O'Keefe (@JamesOKeefeIII) August 18, 2023

"CENSORED: We released a story from Fulton County, GA which then triggered attention from @vanitaguptaCR (Now No. 3 at DOJ) and her civil rights group as “dangerous”. The story showed that “thousands of people” were registered at one address.

Via @TexasLindsay_ cc @elonmusk pic." twitter.com/...
— James O'Keefe (@JamesOKeefeIII) August 18, 2023

Twitter’s then head of legal – Vijaya Gadde, the Trump h@ter from India, responded to Vanita Gupta, another Trump-hating radical Marxist, and said she “can escalate any issues to our on call review teams” about the Project Veritas video.

Twitter’s @Vijaya responded to Biden’s No. 3 DOJ Pick Vinata Gupta by copying her colleagues and saying Twitter team “can escalate any issues to our on call review teams” about the video clip on Twitter – which merely quoted Adam Seeley…

James O’Keefe’s Twitter account was suspended and 6 days later Vanita Gupta was sworn in as Joe Biden’s Associate Attorney General.

"COINCIDENCE?: Not only did @vanitaguptaCR get nominated 3 days after this email exchange with Twitter VP, but on April 15, 2021, my twitter account was permanently suspended and on April 21 Vanita Gupta was sworn in as Biden’s Associate AG to the United States@elonmusk" twitter.com/...
— James O'Keefe (@JamesOKeefeIII) August 18, 2023

Feel good story of the day.

A Starbucks manager who was previously awarded $25 million in a wrongful termination lawsuit was awarded an additional $2.7 million in damages.

Shannon Phillips was fired in 2018 after baristas at a Philly location refused to allow two black men to use the restroom since they were not paying customers.

At the time, Starbucks had a policy in place that prohibited non-paying customers from using their restrooms.
In April 2018, two black men, Rashon Nelson, and Donte Robinson, sat inside a Starbucks in Philly while they waited for a friend to arrive.

Starbucks employee denied one of the black men permission to use the restroom since he was not a paying customer.

Starbucks staff ended up calling the police after things escalated and the two men refused to leave the cafe.

Of course, BLM and other agitators showed up to the Philly Starbucks branch after the two black men were arrested for ‘trespassing.’

Starbucks bent over backward to apologize to the two black men, ordered all 175,000 employees to undergo racial bias training, and opened up their bathrooms to everyone.

After opening their bathrooms to everyone, Starbucks employees found syringes, drug baggies and blood all over the walls in the bathroom.

The coffee giant also fired Shannon Phillips even though she wasn’t at the Philly branch when the incident happened.

A judge on Wednesday ordered Starbucks to pay Phillips an additional $2,736,755 in back pay, front pay and tax gross, ABC News reported.

The ruling comes after a Camden jury ordered the coffee giant to pay Phillips $25.6 million in settlement money, including punitive and compensatory damages, following a trial in June.

Families of 9/11 victims are justifiably outraged over the news that some of the high ranking people behind the attacks may avoid the death penalty.

It’s amazing that these prisoners have avoided it for this long already. That dark day happened over 20 years ago.

Haven’t these prisoners outlived their usefulness for intelligence at this point?

FOX News reports:

"The family of one 9/11 victim is speaking out against the “betrayal” by the Biden administration over a letter it sent notifying families that the masterminds of the heinous attacks could avoid the death penalty.

Chair of 9/11 Families United Terry Strada lost her husband on 9/11, and she joined “Fox & Friends First” on Friday to demand action from the White House as she continues to seek justice.

“It feels like a betrayal. It feels like the government is choosing to protect the mastermind, the perpetrators, the financiers, everyone that’s ever been involved with Sept. 11th and the murder of nearly 3,000 people on American soil,” she told Carley Shimkus on Friday.

“This administration and past administrations have chosen to protect them over us.”

“I feel like the Biden administration should order them not to accept this plea deal and not to have it on the table at all,” she continued."

Is anyone surprised that Biden is doing the exact wrong thing here?

This is so insulting to the memory of all the people we lost that day.

Conservative nonpartisan government watchdog group Judicial Watch filed a lawsuit this week against the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) over the cover-up of reporting about the Hunter Biden laptop story in the final few weeks before the 2020 election.

"BREAKING: Judicial Watch filed a lawsuit against the CIA for all communications of the spy agency’s Prepublication Classification Review Board (PCRB) regarding an October 19, 2020 email request (1/3)." twitter.com/...
— Judicial Watch ⚖️ (@JudicialWatch) August 17, 2023

In an announcement of the lawsuit released Thursday, Judicial Watch wrote:

"(Washington, DC) – Judicial Watch announced today that it filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit against the CIA for all communications of the spy agency’s Prepublication Classification Review Board (PCRB) regarding an October 19, 2020, email request to review and “clear” a letter signed by 51 former intelligence community officials characterizing the Hunter Biden laptop story as having “all the earmarks of a Russian disinformation campaign” (Judicial Watch v. Central Intelligence Agency (No. 1:23-cv-01844)).

In October 2020, in the run-up to the presidential election, the New York Post reported that Hunter Biden’s laptop, which was abandoned at a Delaware computer shop, contained embarrassing and possibly incriminating information about the Biden family. In a May 10, 2023, report the House Judiciary Committee revealed that on October 19, 2020, three days before the second presidential debate between President Donald Trump and Democrat candidate Joe Biden, then-Acting CIA Director Michael Morell sent the PCRB the finalized letter for review, calling it a “rush job,” and quickly secured its approval."

Judicial Watch wrote that "if accurate, this information raises fundamental concerns about the role of the CIA in helping to falsely discredit allegations about the Biden family in the weeks before the 2020 presidential election."

You can be sure this evidence of election interference will be part of the Trump defense showing how the election was rigged and fraudulent.

The tripwire was clearly outlined before as all the indicators were in place.

If you have followed the background, the purpose of Ron DeSantis meeting privately today with Georgia Governor Brian Kemp, is very clear. Georgia is the fulcrum state of the 2024 Sea Island “Roadmap for Ron.”

Georgia examples include the Sea Island reference points, the Mike Pence rally to support Kemp, George W Bush rallying support for Kemp, the intentional non requests for Trump ’22 campaigning, True the Vote’s Catherine Englebrecht documenting the systemic vote system corruption by Georgia Republican Governor Brian Kemp and his entire administration, or the MSM push to use Kemp as an example of a Trump slayer.

You already know the background of Georgia grassroots activists booing Kemp at the state convention, and the recent issue of Brian Kemp adviser Cody Hall joining team DeSantis while remaining a Kemp advisor.

The Sea Island group of billionaires, influence agents, GOPe politicians, multinationals, Wall Street hedge funds and corporate Republicans are manipulating the events in Georgia to support the roadmap that contains their nominee, Ron DeSantis.

Control is the key in these totalitarian illusions of democracy. If Fani Willis is targeting the group who organize against the interests of Brian Kemp and the Republican club leadership, she is doing them a favor. Brian Kemp and his Republican Party crew support corrupt District Attorney Fani Willis, just like former Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell supported U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder in the targeting of the Tea Party (2011, 2012). The alignments are exactly identical.

Again, for reference, this is not a short-term issue. This is a long-term construct on behalf of the right-wing of the UniParty and the Bush clan apparatus to remove the threat of MAGA politics from their controlled party.

DeSantis is a tool, a willing vessel for these interests. The benefit DeSantis provides is not contained in his winning the 2024 primary, but rather in stopping Donald Trump from winning it.

In 2010, the Tea Party caught the corporate Republican Party off guard; they reassembled their machinery, and then attacked and removed the Tea Party influence in 2012. In 2016, the counterinsurgent Tea Party base found a way to fight back with Donald Trump; we reassembled and added more support from the middle and working class around the America First agenda and defeated Wall Street Republicans again. However, every moment thereafter has been this battle between the party control operatives and the MAGA insurgents.

That battle has continued, and Georgia is the latest visible evidence of the war raging in the background.

This was going to be very ugly, and it is unfolding exactly as we would expect.

It will get worse, much worse.

Cowboy up!

If you understand the war inside the machine, then this move by President Trump will make a lot more sense.

Going all the way back to 2016, the #1 value to the RNC from the candidacy of Donald Trump President Trump has always been the supporter data, the donor files and data of the people who support Donald Trump. This data was what literally floored Reince Priebus in 2016, because the RNC had never before seen such a scale of grassroots donor support in the history of the organization.

The RNC administrative leadership were floored when the data-sharing requirement forced Trump’s team to turn over the data right before the GOP convention. It was so far beyond the scale of what they had ever seen before, they could not believe it. Millions and millions of new first-time names. The core of middle-class America.

Data are people. MAGA people. Lots of them. More than the RNC has ever known.

Right now, the corporate club known as the RNC is as much the enemy as the Biden DOJ. The battle inside the RNC is between the billionaire Wall Street club who controls it, and the MAGA voting base who operate within it.

President Trump snubbing the RNC debate in Wisconsin is a direct shot against the RNC as a private corporation. An RNC club that is covertly in alignment with the DNC, another private corporation funded by the same Wall Street billionaires. The RNC is now going to justify the next attacks against Trump by pointing out his non-compliance with the debate.

The RNC has been covertly hostile, but you will now see them become openly hostile. President Trump knows this, and his next move is brilliant. President Trump has created an “official seal of approval” which must accompany any campaign endorsement, donor request or ancillary aspect implying Trump support. This is directly done to counteract the ability of the RNC to exploit Trump’s affiliation and essentially hostage status.

In essence the RNC cannot exploit the MAGA brand for RNC/MAGA endorsement, and or use the donor data files without the Trump “seal of approval.” The data becomes worthless because without the Trump seal any request is ignored. Additionally, without the seal any RNC candidate is ignored. This creates leverage. This is how the insurgency forces the compliance of the GOPe. At least that appears to be the goal from Donald Trump.

If the RNC, or any vendor or candidate they have sold the files to, including any candidate who runs but does not align with Trump, attempts to exploit the files without the Trump seal of approval, the fracture between Trump and the RNC becomes openly visible.

It is not coincidental this ‘Seal of Approval’ is announced after the debate decision was made public. www.donaldjtrump.com/...

So if you don’t see the Seal, it isn’t Real. (Don’t give)