The Shitshow Macro Friday 7.12.24 Weekly Wrapup podcast is out
-Masks Off, Part 3 is now out for premium subscribers in both post and podcast format
Domestic:
-The NATO summit in DC did not go well in DC for Biden, with gaffes and clips making it look like he may have insulted Stoltenberg while trying to be funny.
-Reports are starting to come out that the Biden Administration has flooded the city of Springfield, Ohio with over 20,000 Haitian migrants. Springfield only has an organic population of 55k.
-A Trump-appointed Federal judge has just ruled that a Federal law making it illegal to distill spirits at home is unconstitutional. Get yer shine on, boys.
-Elon Musk publicly announced today that the European Commission tried to offer him (and X) a secret deal to censor its targets without telling anyone to avoid fines. Musk says he refused but the other major social media platforms agreed to do it.
-Congressman Jim Jordan released documents this week that show major advertising groups were working together to censor political targets and platforms. Elon Musk made a comment that he would be suing them.
-Gold Star (SEAL) mom and former Mesa County, CO clerk Tina Peters is being prosecuted by the state for, among other things, allowing “unlawful access” to Dominion machines. Her affidavit claims to provide evidence the machines are unauditable, do connect to the internet, and are not allowed under Colorado law.
--She also claims that it was her duty to preserve voting records in accordance with election law, while contractors were preparing to destroy those records. It is her belief that Dominion pressured the state for her prosecution to take place.
-It is being reported that Democratic donors are threatening to freeze as much as $90mm in donations to Biden Super PACs if he does not step down from the campaign.
-An 18-year-old in NJ has been arrested for allegedly soliciting attacks against energy infrastructure in NJ, expressing a desire to go overseas to be trained to carry out the attacks. Link in the show notes.
-A report has come out showing that while Chicago public school spending doubled, reading and math proficiency scores dropped precipitously. Chart in the show notes.
-Chuck Grassley has released a report showing that HHS sent at least 2 immigrant children to MS-13 gang affiliates, and that the immigration assistance managers began receiving threats from MS-13. Link in the show notes.
-The Democrats and media (but I repeat myself) are trying to rehash the Russian Collusion Hoax for the 2024 election again. No, seriously, they really are trying it again.
-Supreme Court Justice Sotomayor’s armed security had to shoot a carjacker this week to protect her. It may be pertinent to reiterate Sotomayor’s dissent in the recent Donald case:
--"In sum, the Framers did not write the Second Amendment in order to protect a private right of armed self defense." -- Sotomayor, with the dissent in McDonald
-DHS records and public reporting are now showing that the Biden administration has been paying at least 537,000 Ukrainian refugees SSI (social security) benefits
-AZ rancher George Allen Kelly had his charges against him dropped, with prejudice, this week for the dead migrant found on his property.
-A court case this week created precedent that doctors can sue tyrannical credentialing boards that threatened them for questioning COVID policies and “official” treatment plans.
-Some in the media started trying to run a (fake) narrative this week that Biden was deporting more illegals than Trump did. Here’s the real numbers, straight from DHS (credit to Bill Melugin):
--FY’18-FY’20 (Trump): 709,227 deportations
--FY’21-FY’23 (Biden): 273,768 deportations.
-Hungarian PM and rotating EU President Orban went to see Putin, then Xi, then came to the NATO summit in DC. Biden snubbed the meeting with him, so Orban went to Mar-A-Lago to meet with Trump.
-The Biden and Obama factions in DC, Hollywood, media, the IC, and the donor class are starting to make their allegiances very public now.
-Masks Off, Part 3 is now out for premium subscribers in both post and podcast format
Domestic:
-The NATO summit in DC did not go well in DC for Biden, with gaffes and clips making it look like he may have insulted Stoltenberg while trying to be funny.
-Reports are starting to come out that the Biden Administration has flooded the city of Springfield, Ohio with over 20,000 Haitian migrants. Springfield only has an organic population of 55k.
-A Trump-appointed Federal judge has just ruled that a Federal law making it illegal to distill spirits at home is unconstitutional. Get yer shine on, boys.
-Elon Musk publicly announced today that the European Commission tried to offer him (and X) a secret deal to censor its targets without telling anyone to avoid fines. Musk says he refused but the other major social media platforms agreed to do it.
-Congressman Jim Jordan released documents this week that show major advertising groups were working together to censor political targets and platforms. Elon Musk made a comment that he would be suing them.
-Gold Star (SEAL) mom and former Mesa County, CO clerk Tina Peters is being prosecuted by the state for, among other things, allowing “unlawful access” to Dominion machines. Her affidavit claims to provide evidence the machines are unauditable, do connect to the internet, and are not allowed under Colorado law.
--She also claims that it was her duty to preserve voting records in accordance with election law, while contractors were preparing to destroy those records. It is her belief that Dominion pressured the state for her prosecution to take place.
-It is being reported that Democratic donors are threatening to freeze as much as $90mm in donations to Biden Super PACs if he does not step down from the campaign.
-An 18-year-old in NJ has been arrested for allegedly soliciting attacks against energy infrastructure in NJ, expressing a desire to go overseas to be trained to carry out the attacks. Link in the show notes.
-A report has come out showing that while Chicago public school spending doubled, reading and math proficiency scores dropped precipitously. Chart in the show notes.
-Chuck Grassley has released a report showing that HHS sent at least 2 immigrant children to MS-13 gang affiliates, and that the immigration assistance managers began receiving threats from MS-13. Link in the show notes.
-The Democrats and media (but I repeat myself) are trying to rehash the Russian Collusion Hoax for the 2024 election again. No, seriously, they really are trying it again.
-Supreme Court Justice Sotomayor’s armed security had to shoot a carjacker this week to protect her. It may be pertinent to reiterate Sotomayor’s dissent in the recent Donald case:
--"In sum, the Framers did not write the Second Amendment in order to protect a private right of armed self defense." -- Sotomayor, with the dissent in McDonald
-DHS records and public reporting are now showing that the Biden administration has been paying at least 537,000 Ukrainian refugees SSI (social security) benefits
-AZ rancher George Allen Kelly had his charges against him dropped, with prejudice, this week for the dead migrant found on his property.
-A court case this week created precedent that doctors can sue tyrannical credentialing boards that threatened them for questioning COVID policies and “official” treatment plans.
-Some in the media started trying to run a (fake) narrative this week that Biden was deporting more illegals than Trump did. Here’s the real numbers, straight from DHS (credit to Bill Melugin):
--FY’18-FY’20 (Trump): 709,227 deportations
--FY’21-FY’23 (Biden): 273,768 deportations.
-Hungarian PM and rotating EU President Orban went to see Putin, then Xi, then came to the NATO summit in DC. Biden snubbed the meeting with him, so Orban went to Mar-A-Lago to meet with Trump.
-The Biden and Obama factions in DC, Hollywood, media, the IC, and the donor class are starting to make their allegiances very public now.
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War/Military:
-The IDF has begun launching artillery attacks against Syrian military infrastructure located in the Golan Heights, which they claim violates the 1974 Disengagement Agreement between Israel and Syria
-Taiwan is again experiencing a surge of Chinese aircraft around the island after Beijing’s recent military drills involving the Shandong aircraft carrier
-The US is sending 16 F-16s to UKR, with the first 6 already on their way
-Zelensky is trying to get Poland to set up a no-fly zone in Western UKR by signing an agreement to shoot down any RUS missiles that traverse over that part of the country. Wise observers see it as merely a ploy to try to get to a NATO Article 5 invocation.
-A rundown of the Kyiv children’s hospital debacle (it was hit by a missile this week):
--RUS launched attacks against the air defense systems surrounding Kyiv.
--They then launched an attack on military (manufacturing) infrastructure in Kyiv.
--They successfully landed 3 missiles on the targeted building.
--A children’s hospital was hit, and UKR claimed it was a RUS strike.
--Photos of the missiles don’t align with the RUS hypersonics (used against air defense) or subsonics (used against the building). They do, however, look just like UKR air defense missiles that went off target and hit the children’s hospital - like the one that landed in Poland but UKR blamed on RUS.
-India’s PM Modi visited Putin at his summer villa this week, and the pair exchanged public bromancey words.
Zelensky began to attack Modi publicly.
--Zelensky, however, met with Modi and had his chance a year ago, but Modi walked away from that meeting feeling as he had been insulted by Zelensky.
--This is why you don’t put actors and comedians in positions that need diplomacy.
-RUS has reportedly now taken Volchansk.
--It seems UKR was taking troops from Volchansk to buttress its lines in Toretsk, but that opened lines in their defensive positions in Volchansk.
--RUS crossed the Volga River, and UKR had to abandon the “high rise” positions they had wanted to maintain.
-The EU/NATO apparently overstated their ability to produce artillery by 3x. They had forecasted 1.5mm production this year, reality looks more like 500-600k.
While officially named an anti-terror exercise, China and
-Belarus began joint military exercises in Belarus this week.
Markets/economics:
-BOJ had to implement 2 emergency interventions to save the USDJPY pair this week. While nowhere near the previous intervention, it looks like somewhere around $20-30bn may have been injected. It did successfully bring the price below $160 (for now).
-Annualized interest payments on US Federal debt has now reached $1.14 tn, which is more than double that from 2022 when rate hikes began.
-The US Producer Price Index (PPI) soared at the fastest pace in 15 months as service costs soar to keep up with inflation. Link in the show notes.
-Around 25mm Americans are behind on credit cards, auto loan, or personal loan payments, according to Moody’s and Equifax.
Business:
-John Deere is facing criticisms and whistleblowers who are shining light on some incredibly woke policies from HQ, as the company is laying off US workers to shift production to Mexico.
-News came out this week that AT&T had a massive breach of all phone calls & text messages of its customers.
--It seems it wasn’t AT&T itself that was hacked, but rather a 3rd party vendor called Snowflake that had access to AT&T’s data.
-Luxury brand Burberry has announced plans to cut hundreds of jobs this week.
-Intuit has announced that it is laying off around 2,000 employees.
-The Biden Administration is giving GM and Stellantis $1bn to stop plant closures and prod them to continue building EVs.
-GE Appliances, based in Kentucky, will be laying off 4% of its global workforce.
Science:
-In a blow to those who say that the moon landing was fake, an Indian space rover passed over the moon and sent back pictures of the original US spacecraft that landed on the moon.
-The IDF has begun launching artillery attacks against Syrian military infrastructure located in the Golan Heights, which they claim violates the 1974 Disengagement Agreement between Israel and Syria
-Taiwan is again experiencing a surge of Chinese aircraft around the island after Beijing’s recent military drills involving the Shandong aircraft carrier
-The US is sending 16 F-16s to UKR, with the first 6 already on their way
-Zelensky is trying to get Poland to set up a no-fly zone in Western UKR by signing an agreement to shoot down any RUS missiles that traverse over that part of the country. Wise observers see it as merely a ploy to try to get to a NATO Article 5 invocation.
-A rundown of the Kyiv children’s hospital debacle (it was hit by a missile this week):
--RUS launched attacks against the air defense systems surrounding Kyiv.
--They then launched an attack on military (manufacturing) infrastructure in Kyiv.
--They successfully landed 3 missiles on the targeted building.
--A children’s hospital was hit, and UKR claimed it was a RUS strike.
--Photos of the missiles don’t align with the RUS hypersonics (used against air defense) or subsonics (used against the building). They do, however, look just like UKR air defense missiles that went off target and hit the children’s hospital - like the one that landed in Poland but UKR blamed on RUS.
-India’s PM Modi visited Putin at his summer villa this week, and the pair exchanged public bromancey words.
Zelensky began to attack Modi publicly.
--Zelensky, however, met with Modi and had his chance a year ago, but Modi walked away from that meeting feeling as he had been insulted by Zelensky.
--This is why you don’t put actors and comedians in positions that need diplomacy.
-RUS has reportedly now taken Volchansk.
--It seems UKR was taking troops from Volchansk to buttress its lines in Toretsk, but that opened lines in their defensive positions in Volchansk.
--RUS crossed the Volga River, and UKR had to abandon the “high rise” positions they had wanted to maintain.
-The EU/NATO apparently overstated their ability to produce artillery by 3x. They had forecasted 1.5mm production this year, reality looks more like 500-600k.
While officially named an anti-terror exercise, China and
-Belarus began joint military exercises in Belarus this week.
Markets/economics:
-BOJ had to implement 2 emergency interventions to save the USDJPY pair this week. While nowhere near the previous intervention, it looks like somewhere around $20-30bn may have been injected. It did successfully bring the price below $160 (for now).
-Annualized interest payments on US Federal debt has now reached $1.14 tn, which is more than double that from 2022 when rate hikes began.
-The US Producer Price Index (PPI) soared at the fastest pace in 15 months as service costs soar to keep up with inflation. Link in the show notes.
-Around 25mm Americans are behind on credit cards, auto loan, or personal loan payments, according to Moody’s and Equifax.
Business:
-John Deere is facing criticisms and whistleblowers who are shining light on some incredibly woke policies from HQ, as the company is laying off US workers to shift production to Mexico.
-News came out this week that AT&T had a massive breach of all phone calls & text messages of its customers.
--It seems it wasn’t AT&T itself that was hacked, but rather a 3rd party vendor called Snowflake that had access to AT&T’s data.
-Luxury brand Burberry has announced plans to cut hundreds of jobs this week.
-Intuit has announced that it is laying off around 2,000 employees.
-The Biden Administration is giving GM and Stellantis $1bn to stop plant closures and prod them to continue building EVs.
-GE Appliances, based in Kentucky, will be laying off 4% of its global workforce.
Science:
-In a blow to those who say that the moon landing was fake, an Indian space rover passed over the moon and sent back pictures of the original US spacecraft that landed on the moon.