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Some falsebeliefs that are hurting the Democratic Party:

1. Republicans are better at messaging bc their audience is dumb.

2. Republicans are better at keeping together their coalition because the Democratic coalition is more "diverse."

The reality is that Democrats back opaque, convoluted, marginal policy ideas because the straightforward, popular policies like Medicare for All, a living wage, tax the rich, are opposed by their donor base. The inverse conservative policies (cut taxes/cut government) can be said straightforwardly because those policies are in line with what the corporate donor base both parties share support.

Democrats sound convoluted not because their policies are "smarter," but because they have to employ more sophistry to do their donor's bidding while not upsetting the base. They have to use rotating villain voting + the filibuster + rely on executive vetos + sunsetting popular policies like the child tax credit in order to make sure nothing they *say* they want sticks.

To point #2: This is so racist is wrong. There is very little "diversity" of opinion among the issues that ALL Americans-- not just the Dem base -- want. Medicare for all is an 88% issue among Dems, and 49% among Republicans. The overwhelming majority of Americans want it. Dems blaming "diversity" for not running on popular, economic populist policies is wrong and downright hateful.

UK must be going through rough times…

On May 19, the UK quietly issued new licenses allowing imports of diesel & jet fuel made from sanctioned Russian oil (if processed in a third country), plus a separate license for maritime transport of Russian LNG from Sakhalin-2 and Yamal terminals.

The oil products waiver takes effect May 20 (indefinite but revocable). The LNG one runs until Jan 1, 2027.

This came on the same day the G7 reaffirmed its “unwavering commitment” to sanctioning Russia’s energy sector.

Interesting timing.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​..

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For further information:

https://oilprice.com/Latest-Energy-News/World-News/UK-Eases-Some-Russian-Oil-Sanctions-as-Fuel-Prices-Soar.html

I'm reluctant to cite Wccftech, but there's no denying the Chinese are now trying to ramp up the production of DRAM.

For those who are unaware, DRAM, or memory prices, have skyrocketed from the recent AI boom.

Trump has not suddenly turned the US into a plutocracy.

What he has done, and we should be grateful to him for doing it, is strip away the thin and false democratic veneer to reveal to everyone how the country is actually run by a small group of wealthy elites.

There is nothing new about the workings of power in the US today. It's just that Trump doesn't make any effort to conceal the corruption, protection rackets, privileges and the illusion that the two party system provides voters with meaningful political choices.

In fact he genuinely believes that the presidency constitutes a personal right to enrich himself and his family, both during his time in office as the ultimate insider trader, and afterwards.

It is possibly the only thing he is more honest about than his predecessors.

There is a growing awareness among everyday people right now that the elite establishment REALLY DOES consider the masses to be expendable.

It was psychologically convenient to brush aside talk of "depopulation" and "extermination" as groundless theories and fairy tales designed to scare people, but now, as the AI data centers are expanding and taking over the farm land, water supplies, power grid and local political power, people are starting to freak out as they realize they are suddenly powerless to stop it all.

Local governments no longer listen to local citizens. Elections no longer represent the people, and the federal government doesn't even pretend to represent the American people any longer.

Corporate CEOs openly talk about replacing "low-value" humans beings with higher-value AI systems, and NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang openly and publicly talks about how AI systems will need "1,000 times more power" in the years ahead, which means the near-total displacement of humanity from the big picture.

For the very first time in the minds of many people, they realize that people like Steve Quayle, Alex Jones and myself (Mike Adams) were sincere in our warnings and accurate in our predictions. We were trying to save you, not scare you.

YOU REALLY ARE CONSIDERED EXPENDABLE by the ruling elite. They really are working on ways to exterminate you. They see you as in their way... biomass roadkill to be scraped off the pavement of "progress" so they can continue their drive toward AI superintelligence and world domination.

Now, suddenly, there seems to be emerging panic among those who were late to these realization. They are only JUST NOW figuring out they need extra food supplies, off-grid money (metals) and a plan to bug out of the cities to survive as far from the centralized control grid as possible.

I feel sorry for them. Denial worked for years, but no longer. Now human beings are in the crosshairs. You have been scheduled for termination. If you're only just now figuring this out, you're LATE, LATE, LATE! For a very important date, no doubt.

So follow the White Rabbit, because the adventures in "wonderland" have only just begun to be revealed. And it's more twisted and bizarre than you ever could have imagined.

Good luck to all.

Chinese founders are usually:

- engineers

- party members

- capitalists

In that order.

So when they build or acquire a company, maximizing shareholder value is not the first objective. The first objective is acquiring know-how and industrial capability.

The mindset is: "we should know how to build this thing in China for the simple reason that my civilization needs to learn this sooner or later and i don't care about consequences or optics - if it looks like stealing IP so be it, I don't have to explain..."

The only people judging you are in your local party HQ.

If you’re a credible founder in China, you can go to a local party chief and say: "I need x engineers, land, and some starter funds to build this widget company"

And if the state thinks the industry matters, you’ll get the best resources in the province, industrial land and enough support to get going. The rest is up to you.

Many, many fail. Like most people think they would be successful with capital - go to China and see. You get everything - land, capital, people and even then the success ratio is like 1-5%...

OG American founders were also engineer-first. Bill Hewlett and David Packard built HP as engineers. Same with a lot of old American industrial giants. But over time those founders exited and the boards got taken over by pure financial operators focused entirely on maximizing quarterly shareholder value.

A single generation of this mentality hollowed out the entire American industry. Product-first founders like Elon Musk exist today because there was a generational demand for good engineering lead founders.

Indian boomer founders meanwhile were always capitalist-first from day one. Not even saying that negatively. Many come from communities that are insanely optimized around capital survival and allocation. That’s a real skill developed over centuries.

But the downside of that mindset is that they were rarely engineer-first or product-first EVEN if they were engineers by training. They were always capitalist first.

And that's very reasonable. They're on their own. Nobody has their back. They need to perform or die.

So when an Indian conglomerate acquires something like Jaguar, the instinct becomes:

- optimize margins

- reduce costs

- extract shareholder value

But if you don’t deeply understand first principles of car manufacturing, how much value can you really compound long term ? So companies get handed to hired professionals and MBA operators. The exact same class of people that helped hollow out American industry.

Now America is slowly realizing pure financial capitalism can become self-destructive because eventually the spreadsheet people cannibalize the actual industrial base in pursuit of EPS.

India already lives in that reality. Infosys is a good example. A company effectively consuming itself to maintain quarter-on-quarter performance without aggressively building the future.

And as I said they’re not even wrong. Anyone would do the same unless the system is realigned for long term incentives.

Who in India actually has your back if you miss numbers for 2-3 yrs while investing heavily into long-term capability ? Tesla survived because retail investors and the American public effectively backed Elon Musk through a decade of chaos and losses.

Toyota delivers 6-7x of Tesla's profit EVERY QUARTER but Tesla wins because try posting and see Tesla retail investors explaining you the future of automobiles.

Indian scarcity markets can't and won't tolerate that kind of long-duration industrial gamble. Its a 3k gdp/capita country nobody has time for long term nonsense plus who know who's grfiting vs being serious...people talk about nationalism then take your money and run.

China solved this by

- serve the party

- align with state goals

- stay below the radar and build

the system will protect you while you build.

In India you are on your own.

- manage the regulators

- manage capital - which is very expensive

- manage your own power/infra

- deal with corruption

- manage untrained talent

All of that becomes a massive tax on operations.

Nobody has the time to do any long-term thinking. Any anyone who does that would be eaten alive by those who optimize for survival.

It's a continuation of the decades long trend.

>This is only the latest example, Weatherbee says, of the U.S. strategy of hybrid warfare—that uses unconventional non-military methods such as the type of disinformation campaign described in the leaked audio. She pointed to recent lawfare campaigns in places such as Argentina, Ecuador, and Brazil—as well as the funding of opposition groups in Venezuela ahead of the military capture of leader Nicolás Maduro. The difference, she said, is that now countries like Colombia and Mexico, governed by left-wing governments who reject U.S. intervention, are now the targets.

Also it confirms that the opposition to these 2 governments is not necessarily grassroots.

It seems that there is a lot of money being mobilized against Massie.

>Small, locally run custom slaughterhouses are all over the place in the United States. USDA slaughterhouses are vanishingly rare and often at great distances away from farmers. The custom slaughterhouses are used by homesteaders and hunters who eat their own meat. The PRIME Act would allow them to be used by small farmers who sell their meat to the public, provided that they comply with local health regulations and don’t sell their meat across state lines.

That would mean that all the meat is going to come from the big slaughterhouses and further concentrate power into Tyson.

Yet another war...

Thread

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/2045258643637952542.html or https://archive.ph/QuNwO

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From Politico

Pro-Israel groups are spending big to sink Thomas Massie in the most expensive House primary in history

Article here

https://archive.ph/eZqCO

I know that this article is a bit focused on the plight of residents of Massachusetts, but keep in mind that the whole US has this problem now with housing affordability and younger, poorer Americans unable to find a way to afford the American dream.

Massachusetts is a higher cost of living state, but wages are also higher in Massachusetts, which somewhat offsets.

Originally posted article:

https://archive.ph/C4yai

In reply to:

starting to consider the possibility that AOC's 2028 campaign could be the end of the DSA as a political project.

Why was there no news regarding the procurement of Nvidia chips following Trump's visit to China?

After Trump's departure, China's Ministry of Commerce released a summary of the preliminary outcomes from the China-U.S. economic and trade consultations; notably, it contained no mention whatsoever of the chip trade between the two nations.

Prior reports had suggested that the U.S. side had authorized Nvidia to export up to 75,000 H200 chips—specifically, a maximum of 7,500 units per company—to ten Chinese technology firms. Upon returning to the United States, Trump himself confirmed that the U.S. had indeed approved the sale, yet the Chinese side had failed to place an order. Why? In reality, Trump's eleventh-hour strategy—sending Jensen Huang aboard Air Force One to Beijing—proved to be a failure, stemming from a fundamental miscalculation of the situation.

The reason is that China has, in fact, little interest in the H200 chips that the U.S. has permitted for sale. Purchasing them entails paying a hefty "toll"—a 25% tariff imposed by the U.S. government. Furthermore, there are concerns that the chips may contain "backdoors" and cannot be guaranteed as secure.

Moreover, while the H200 offers decent performance, its prime is rapidly fading. In the second half of the year, Nvidia is set to begin mass production of its Rubin series chips (R100), which will represent the cutting edge of technology. The Blackwell series will rank second in performance, leaving the H200 relegated to a distant third place.

Were China to purchase H200 chips on a massive scale right now, it would essentially be helping Nvidia clear its inventory (reports suggest that the figure of 750,000 units corresponds precisely to Nvidia's current stock). Furthermore, domestic Chinese chips have now reached a level of performance—in terms of computing power and cluster applications—that is largely on par with the H200; consequently, large-scale procurement of Nvidia's H200 chips would deal a severe blow to China's burgeoning domestic chip industry.

Thus, the situation remains in constant flux—unless, of course, the U.S. agrees to supply China with more advanced Nvidia chips. This also implies that the "Nvidia chip card" has not proven as effective against China as the White House and Jensen Huang had anticipated; they should not mistake China for a willing "patsy" ready to pay a premium simply to help them offload their excess inventory.

Rationing would only occur in a nation state war or a shortage, thanks to Trump's war against the Iranians.

Especially now because more people are distrustful of the elite. Same with conscription.

You won’t find the enemy of the American people abroad. The enemy is right here at home inside of our own government and inside of the boardrooms of corporations.

The enemy is our own politicians in both parties who’ve turned our government into a money laundering operation for corporations, billionaires, the war machine, and Israel.

The enemy is billionaire shareholders and CEOs who make their wealth off the mass exploitation of our labor and mass extraction of resources that belong to our communities.

The insane part of all of this and a big reason the people don’t rise up and fight for what we deserve is a large swath of the population has been indoctrinated to not only blame foreign countries, but also to worship the real enemy.

That’s right millions of Americans actually worship the politicians and billionaires who rig the system against us. It’s not an accident either. They program you to worship the ruling class so you won’t fight back against them.

Until this changes, nothing changes. Until Americans stop voting for Republicans and Democrats, stop worshipping the rich, and start fighting for a new system that puts people over profits we will remain forever stuck in this endless cycle of corruption.