Good morning kids. Let's start off with a bit of good news that broke late yesterday.
President Donald Trump announced a sweeping trade agreement with the European Union (EU) on Sunday, setting a baseline 15 percent tariff on European imports — including automobiles — while keeping existing 50 percent duties on steel and aluminum in place. As part of the deal, the EU committed to purchasing $750 billion in U.S. energy products. Trump announced the agreement during a press conference with European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen after a private meeting at Trump Turnberry in Scotland. . .
. . . “We don’t know what that number is,” he said, but went on to note that the purchase of military equipment would be in the “hundreds of billions of dollars.”
Moreover, the EU will pay a 15 percent tariff rate to import products into the U.S., ranging from automobiles to other goods.
“So we have a tariff of 15% we have the opening up of all of the European countries, which I think I could say were essentially closed,” Trump said. “I mean, you weren’t exactly taking our orders, you weren’t exactly taking our agriculture, and then you would have smaller things, but for the most part, it was closed, and now it’s open.”
This is kind of a pretty big Effin' deal, and we'll know how big in the short term by how the propaganda media distorts and/or totally ignores it as it continues to push Epstein-Epstein nonstop while also ignoring Obamagate or painting it as a Trump witch hunt/persecution of the Dog-eating commie. Of course the markets will no doubt have their own reaction to the news of this deal reflecting sentiment over the long term.
As Trump 2.0 demolishes much of the insanity of the regulatory state, this item, along with the renewed commitment to take full advantage of America's vast fossil fuel resources while we and much of the world come to our senses and abandon the green energy/climate change madness is most welcome indeed.
Car Lovers Rejoice! After 50 Miserable Years, CAFE Standards Are Dead
. . . One of the most important provisions in the One Big Beautiful Bill has gone completely unnoticed, but promises to make the auto industry great again.
For 50 years, the federal government has been forcing fuel economy standards on auto companies. If the average fuel economy of the cars sold in a year exceeded a federal standard, the companies had to cough up enormous penalties.
Passed in 1975 as a way to deal with an energy crisis (that was caused by government price controls), “corporate average fuel economy” (CAFE) standards – required the fleet of cars sold by an automaker to achieve an arbitrary miles-per-gallon goal. If they missed the goal, they paid hefty annual fines.
CAFE standards along with many other onerous regulations did much to strangle American dominance of the automobile industry. So hallelujah to this news and it comes after General Motors announced last week it's expansion of manufacturing of gasoline-powered trucks and SUVs.
Dramatic video shows a heroic Walmart shopper armed with a gun confronting a knife-wielding maniac moments after he allegedly stabbed 11 people inside the Michigan store on Saturday night.
In wild cellphone footage shared on X, the brave man, identified by family members as Marine veteran Derrick Perry, is seen yelling at the suspected attacker to drop the weapon in the parking lot of the superstore in Traverse City, about 255 miles northwest of Detroit.
Perry is being praised for his actions, with some even suggesting he should be nominated for the Presidential Medal of Freedom. “Give this man the recognition his actions deserve,” one commenter said. “Good men who are armed save lives.”
. . .On Sunday, authorities identified the suspect as Bradford James Gille, 42. He faces charges of terrorism and 11 counts of assault with intent to murder following the shocking stabbing spree in Traverse City — a popular Michigan tourist destination. His victims range in age from 29 to 85, with six of them over 60, Grand Traverse County Sheriff Michael Shea said. They are all expected to survive. Shea revealed that Gille has a history of arrests for drug offenses and vandalism.
All things considered, Michigan, the situation in the Middle East, open borders and my first thought was that the perp was a Religion-of-Peace Peacenik. Surely something set this psycho off and if all we hear is radio silence in the coming days, you can be sure this sicko is somehow Democrat/Leftist inspired or otherwise motivated.
Funny how we haven't heard any calls from the usual quarters for common sense knife control! Pfft.
And this leads in to my shot/chaser segment of the day. First up the shot from annoyingly and dangerously clueless dolt Adam Milstein
On one hand, the Islamo-left alliance, a coalition between far-left ideologues, anarchists, and Islamists, is working to dismantle America from within. On the other end of the political spectrum, white supremacists, while a fringe movement, still have the capacity to take weapons into their hands and kill Americans.
In addition, a dangerous new ideology is taking root on the American right. What began as a sensible “America First” doctrine to prioritize American interests has, in some circles, morphed into an “America Only” worldview that seeks to isolate the United States from the outside world and abandon its global responsibilities as leader and ally of free nations.
These groups may seem to have little in common, but all of them advance ideologies that are deeply hostile to America’s founding principles and its international interests. They aim to reshape the very fabric of our society. Alarmingly, through years of strategic planning, infiltration and coordinated efforts, they appear to be making real progress.
What an abject asshole. While there are for sure dozens if not hundreds of examples of Islamic, Leftist and Islamo-Leftist violence that have spilled rivers if not oceans of blood over the past few centuries, especially going back 1500 years to the founding of Islam itself.
I defy Milstein or anyone to point to any mass organized "FAR RIGHT" movement or organization that has perpetrated any acts of mass or singular political terrorism. And please define for me the political manifesto of this so-called "Far Right" Sorry, Isolationism and some nebulous bullshit about defying our founding principles is just that. So because I reject the insanity of America as the world's policeman and endless wars all over the world purely for the growth of the political class' stock portfolios makes me into some sort of extremist, eh Milstein?
Shame on FrontPage Mag for publishing this idiot's essay that does nothing to advance the cause of warning the public about the real dangers we face and instead muddies the waters and creates phantasms for us to chase.
"On the other end of the political spectrum, white supremacists, while a fringe movement, still have the capacity to take weapons into their hands and kill Americans." And yet it has yet to happen, certainly to even the tiniest fraction of what happened during the summer of 2020. Funny, what about black supremacists? I guess he never heard of BLM or the Black Panthers, or Black Liberation Army. All Milstein is attempting and failing to do is to take a swipe at President Trump and normal sane America who reject Milstein and his ilk.
Law enforcement has grappled with a wave of alleged or confirmed arsons, shootings, threats against government officials and mass rioting stemming from outrage at Trump’s policies or U.S. support for Israel. In the months following Trump’s reelection, media outlets and “experts” quoted in their articles predicted that America might see a resurgence of mostly right-wing or white supremacist violence on his watch. (RELATED: Outfit Behind Slanted ‘Terrorism’ Studies Pleads For Private Donors After Trump Funding Cuts) “That analysis never made any sense, but was always the a priori assumption of research conducted by left-leaning academics incentivized to tell the government the narrative it wanted to hear, in order to receive more government ‘countering violent extremism’ funding,” Kyle Shideler, senior analyst at the Center for Security Policy, told the Daily Caller News Foundation. “No matter how many attacks were organized by jihadist terrorists or committed anarchists or communists, ‘Extremism’ was a problem to be found only on the political right, and specifically was the fault of their main political opponent’s rhetoric.”
“Whether Donald Trump won or lost, either result was taken as evidence for an increase in ‘Far Right’ extremism,” Shideler, who has a history of briefing law enforcement officials, told the DCNF. “Even a decrease in ‘hate groups’ could be identified as evidence of their growing power. Heads we win, tails you lose,” Shideler added, referencing media coverage of a Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) report which claimed that extremist groups decreased in 2024 as their views “entered the mainstream.”
Meanwhile, an April study from Rutgers University and the National Contagion Research Institute found that more than half of self-identified “left of center” Americans believe murdering Trump — who was nearly assassinated ahead of the 2024 election — is at least somewhat justified. Nearly 40% of respondents also said “it is at least somewhat acceptable (or more) to destroy a Tesla dealership in protest” of Musk, according to the researchers.
“These attitudes are not fringe — they reflect an emergent assassination culture, grounded in far-left authoritarianism and increasingly normalized in digital discourse,” the study said.
Up yours, Adam Milstein! Ooh, I better not write that lest I be seen as a far Right extremist! I'm sure his next column will paint the Michigan mass-stabber as a Far-Right terrorist!
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