The Shitshow Macro Weekly Prep Podcast for Monday January 27, 2025 is out:
Domestic Politics:
-Economist Dr. Jack Rasmus published a scathing report on the Biden legacy with regards to its economic, geopolitical, and domestic politics.
--The title Biden’s Pernicious Presidential Legacies is an accurate summary of his analysis. It’s worth a read:
jackrasmus.com/2025/01/24/bid…
-Marco Rubio’s “sweeping change” cable sent out at Foggy Bottom (State Dept).
--This, this, and this. He “gets it.”
--“Every dollar we spend, every program we fund, and every policy we pursue must be justified with the answer to three simple questions,” Rubio wrote.
--The questions: Does the action make America safer, stronger, and more prosperous?
realclearpolitics.com/articles/2025/…
-Many of us were quite surprised that none of the violent left-wing groups were able to bring the riots that had become commonplace from the 2017 Trump inauguration through the “Summer of Love” 2020 riots.
--Mike Shelby (@grayzoneintel ) was one of the few calling out in advance that it wasn’t going to happen.
--Mike knows his stuff on this front; here’s his top-line assessment of why they weren’t able to muster the resources for another go-round of their shenanigans:
open.substack.com/pub/grayzonere…
-The Army Corps of Engineers are already on the ground in W. North Carolina and at work.
-Week 1. Trump got this done on week 1.
-Here’s a video from @matt_vanswol , who has been sending video from on the ground since Helene hit (unlike the major US media networks, who were mostly absent):
x.com/matt_vanswol/s…
-The Sunday Colombian spat:
--Reports started coming out before the weekend that Colombia was refusing to accept repatriation of its citizens who illegally entered the US.
--Trump posted an ultimatum, followed by restrictions imposed on Colombian officials.
--The President of Colombia reneged in less than half an hour.
--The media and leftist NPCs began pushing a narrative war about “higher priced coffee and flowers” after the Colombian President had already reneged.
--President Trump continued his round of golf unabated.
-It pains me that I even have to explain this, and I don’t think our readers/listeners need this explained, but it seems obvious that sections of the US population do, so here it goes:
--Another ludicrous narrative pushed by the media & leftist NPCs was that egg prices are still high so it’s a Trump admin failure.
--The recently-released egg prices are from December, which was Biden’s tenure.
--Eggs are not laid, harvested, and packaged in the grocery store - there’s a supply chain.
--Supply chains don’t include teleportation machines - there is a process required for things to move from the farm to the grocery store shelves.
--Bringing down the cost of oil (shipping) and natural gas (farming) as well as potash & nitrogen (also farming & food for farm animals, like chickens) will, necessarily, bring down the cost of eggs (and beef and vegetables and fruits and milk and butter and everything else).
--Those pushing the above narrative are bad faith actors, morons who don’t know how anything works, or both.
-The DEA enacted a pre-dawn raid in Aurora, Colorado to round up the Tren de Agura gang members who were taking over apartment complexes and causing mayhem in the city.
--Despite the media and local officials previously swearing this gang wasn’t present and causing these issues, nearly 50 of them were arrested in the raid along with drugs and weapons.
--Short video clip from @libsoftiktok :
x.com/libsoftiktok/s…
-As the J6ers who have been pardoned & released (they are still refusing to release several) are getting situated back home, horror stories about their prosecutions & treatment while in custody are beginning to surface.
--IMO, these are only just beginning, and people are going to be horrified when they learn the reality versus media version of what actually happened in these prosecutions.
Domestic Politics:
-Economist Dr. Jack Rasmus published a scathing report on the Biden legacy with regards to its economic, geopolitical, and domestic politics.
--The title Biden’s Pernicious Presidential Legacies is an accurate summary of his analysis. It’s worth a read:
jackrasmus.com/2025/01/24/bid…
-Marco Rubio’s “sweeping change” cable sent out at Foggy Bottom (State Dept).
--This, this, and this. He “gets it.”
--“Every dollar we spend, every program we fund, and every policy we pursue must be justified with the answer to three simple questions,” Rubio wrote.
--The questions: Does the action make America safer, stronger, and more prosperous?
realclearpolitics.com/articles/2025/…
-Many of us were quite surprised that none of the violent left-wing groups were able to bring the riots that had become commonplace from the 2017 Trump inauguration through the “Summer of Love” 2020 riots.
--Mike Shelby (@grayzoneintel ) was one of the few calling out in advance that it wasn’t going to happen.
--Mike knows his stuff on this front; here’s his top-line assessment of why they weren’t able to muster the resources for another go-round of their shenanigans:
open.substack.com/pub/grayzonere…
-The Army Corps of Engineers are already on the ground in W. North Carolina and at work.
-Week 1. Trump got this done on week 1.
-Here’s a video from @matt_vanswol , who has been sending video from on the ground since Helene hit (unlike the major US media networks, who were mostly absent):
x.com/matt_vanswol/s…
-The Sunday Colombian spat:
--Reports started coming out before the weekend that Colombia was refusing to accept repatriation of its citizens who illegally entered the US.
--Trump posted an ultimatum, followed by restrictions imposed on Colombian officials.
--The President of Colombia reneged in less than half an hour.
--The media and leftist NPCs began pushing a narrative war about “higher priced coffee and flowers” after the Colombian President had already reneged.
--President Trump continued his round of golf unabated.
-It pains me that I even have to explain this, and I don’t think our readers/listeners need this explained, but it seems obvious that sections of the US population do, so here it goes:
--Another ludicrous narrative pushed by the media & leftist NPCs was that egg prices are still high so it’s a Trump admin failure.
--The recently-released egg prices are from December, which was Biden’s tenure.
--Eggs are not laid, harvested, and packaged in the grocery store - there’s a supply chain.
--Supply chains don’t include teleportation machines - there is a process required for things to move from the farm to the grocery store shelves.
--Bringing down the cost of oil (shipping) and natural gas (farming) as well as potash & nitrogen (also farming & food for farm animals, like chickens) will, necessarily, bring down the cost of eggs (and beef and vegetables and fruits and milk and butter and everything else).
--Those pushing the above narrative are bad faith actors, morons who don’t know how anything works, or both.
-The DEA enacted a pre-dawn raid in Aurora, Colorado to round up the Tren de Agura gang members who were taking over apartment complexes and causing mayhem in the city.
--Despite the media and local officials previously swearing this gang wasn’t present and causing these issues, nearly 50 of them were arrested in the raid along with drugs and weapons.
--Short video clip from @libsoftiktok :
x.com/libsoftiktok/s…
-As the J6ers who have been pardoned & released (they are still refusing to release several) are getting situated back home, horror stories about their prosecutions & treatment while in custody are beginning to surface.
--IMO, these are only just beginning, and people are going to be horrified when they learn the reality versus media version of what actually happened in these prosecutions.
Jack Rasmus
Biden’s Pernicious Presidential Legacies (print)
Trump’s proposals to radically transform much of US economic and social policy are being rapidly rolled out during the first week of his administration. How much he succeeds or fails in that transf…