TimK @timk519

Canada: Crying Over Spilt Milk in a Self‑Inflicted Stagnation Canada’s elite have spent a quarter‑century turning a rich, opportunity‑dense economy into a slow‑growth, over‑levered cul‑de‑sac, and they still insist nothing is structurally wrong. There is no sense crying over spilt milk about past mistakes when the architects of this stagnation are still in charge and still in denial. Canada did not just drift into secular stagnation; it embraced a kind of virtue socialism and an industrial policy anchored on climate change targets rather than productive capacity, competitiveness, or growth. An economy built on world‑class natural resources, strategic geography, and human capital has been deliberately downgraded into a housing‑addicted, low‑productivity balance sheet recession risk, and the people who did it still show up on panels calling this “resilience.” For years, Canada’s comparative advantages in energy, resources, and industrial capacity were something to apologize for, regulate to death, or tax into oblivion, while policy and capital chased the illusion that you could mortgage and virtue‑signal your way to prosperity. The result is a country flirting with a liquidity trap, where even lower rates may barely move a real economy suffocated by over‑priced assets, under‑built productive capital, and households too damaged to borrow again. The real scandal is not that Canada faces secular stagnation; it is that the elite engineered it, denied it, wrapped it in climate rhetoric, and now blame external shocks while the data scream that this is a made‑in‑Canada crisis. To be clear, Canada’s problems are not the result of President Trump! If Canada’s elite will not finally admit that decades of attacking its own strengths, worshipping its own bubbles, and treating industrial policy as a morality play have left the country one downturn away from a full balance sheet recession, then they are not guardians of the national interest, they are custodians of decline, and at this point, there really is no sense crying over spilt milk, only over the refusal to fix the mess they made.

BBC News (World) @BBCWorld

5 days ago

Just how much trouble is Canada's economy in? bbc.in/3StE8RD

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This is brilliantly written. “The real scandal is not that Canada faces secular stagnation; it is that the elite engineered it, denied it, wrapped it in climate rhetoric, and now blame external shocks while the data scream that this is a made‑in‑Canada crisis.” Following James E. Thorne @DrJStrategy colleague of the prolific @MPelletierCIO Smart guys.

James E. Thorne @DrJStrategy

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Canada: Crying Over Spilt Milk in a Self‑Inflicted Stagnation Canada’s elite have spent a quarter‑century turning a rich, opportunity‑dense economy into a slow‑growth, over‑levered cul‑de‑sac, and they still insist nothing is structurally wrong. There is no sense crying over

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The court has not made birth tourism legitimate. It has made itself illegitimate. Thomas and Alito are right. Congress must start acting now to remove all foreign women from the country immediately. And begin attaching pregnancy test to visa requirements. Force the Supreme Court to confront the will of the people again and again and again.

BREAKING: Justice Clarence Thomas pens a scathing dissent after the Supreme Court upheld birthright citizenship. Thomas accuses the majority of “repurposing” the 14th Amendment “to protect its own set of preferred rights that the Reconstruction Congress never contemplated and that cannot find support in its text.” “Today, the Court does so again by recognizing a constitutional right to citizenship for the children of all foreign birth tourists and illegal aliens.” “I am not sure that today’s opinion will stand the test of time. The Citizenship Clause ‘added greatly to the dignity and glory of American citizenship.’ Today’s opinion devalues that citizenship.” “I respectfully dissent.”

CJ Roberts -- the Court would not have reached the issue without him -- has green-lit the CCP to continue sending pregnant women to the U.S. to give birth to U.S. citizens, and then return to China to raise them as Chinese Communists -- who will have a right to vote by mail in U.S. elections for President. If he believes no foreign government would consider such a scheme, he's a fool.

NEW: Justice Clarence Thomas issues a scathing 91-page dissenting opinion after the Supreme Court struck down President Trump's birthright citizenship order. "The Court today takes the extraordinary step of holding facially unconstitutional the President's Order excluding from citizenship the children of foreign temporary visitors and illegal aliens," Thomas wrote. "In doing so, the Court adds to the sad history of the Fourteenth Amendment, which was designed and understood to secure equal rights for the freed blacks but has instead been repurposed for political projects that the Reconstruction Congress did not support."

@SCOTUSblog Alito laid out how to go about changing this. He wrote his own dissent for a reason so that he could specify the national security threat aspect of it. There are ways to fill the gap without having to go as far as an amendment.

OK, despite my prior gloom and doom post on the Federal Reserve case, this Slaughter case means Humphrey's Executor is deader than the reputation of the Washington Post, which is amazingly good news in that it greatly diminishes the power of the unelected, bureaucratic administrative state that wields such tyrannical power over our day-to-day lives. I still don't get how the rulings in the Slaughter case and the Federal Reserve case could be compatible, but I'll wait for @ProfMJCleveland to explain it to me before I read the cases myself! It's a good day.

SCOTUS Wire @scotus_wire

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🚨 In a 6-3 vote, the Supreme Court ruled that the President may fire FTC commissioners at will, overruling Humphrey's Executor and holding that the FTC's for-cause removal protections violate the Constitution's separation of powers.

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People sometimes ask me why I believe mass migration threatens to fundamentally transform American culture. And this is a really good example. Hemant’s parents arrived here from India before he was born. And now, he insists that we may not teach the foundational texts of western civilization and our culture to American students because he objects to it. So he demands that we not teach them about the most important work to influence our nation’s founding. And that is why I say mass migration without assimilation threatens to fundamentally transform our country. And that is the same culture that up to this point has made the United States the greatest nation on Earth and is why so many immigrants from other cultures like India want to come here.

Hemant Mehta @hemantmehta

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Texas has decided public schools should teach Noah's Ark, the Burning Bush, Adam & Eve, and more as required reading. It's terrible news for religious freedom. It's also terrible news for Christianity itself. friendlyatheist.com/p/texas-just-m…

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We have had enough. This isn’t standard immigration anymore. This isn’t assimilation. This is meant to overwhelm our nation and our voting system. Small-town America was flooded with criminal illegal aliens. Not anymore. To the pro-immigration groups: Too bad. You destroyed the trust and goodwill of the American people by importing the third world to our great country. Thanks for having me, @JrzyJoePiscopo and @JoePiscopoShow.

The Bureau has learned Canada’s government in fact does have police documents that identify serious corruption involving Chinese transnational crime in B.C. that should have been relevant to the Cullen Commission, according to a general description of a specific intelligence record from a federal source that asked not to be identified due to sensitivity of the matter. The source specified this document from B.C.’s anti-illegal gaming unit (JIGIT) is dated April 16, 2019, and was provided for B.C.’s then Attorney General, David Eby. The sensitive report is classified “Protected B” the federal source said. The classification means if some of JIGIT’s intelligence became public it could cause “serious injury to an individual, organization or government.” The Bureau’s legal efforts to obtain a redacted version or some official response regarding this alleged April 2019 document from the RCMP and British Columbia’s government have so far been unsuccessful. @AlderLaneEggs — thebureau.news/p/carneys-nati… Canada in Crisis 3.0 The Eby Discussions

A German fan said it best: “If you want to hate America, watch the news. If you want to love America, drive through it.” Over 3.6 million fans packed stadiums for the World Cup, breaking attendance records. Millions came from every corner of the globe and experienced what the headlines never show: welcoming people, incredible hospitality, and a country unlike any other. The media sells outrage. America sells itself.

A Letter from This Generation We voted for Trump. Not because he is perfect. He is emotional, prideful, and self-absorbed like every president before him. We voted for him because he was the only one who said out loud what we have been living through for decades. His pride might actually be our biggest asset as he is devoted to doing the job he promised to do. We voted for the candidate the media hated most. The one who promised to end USAID, massively expand ICE with real funding that rivals the militaries of most foreign countries, send green card applicants back to their countries, stall visa holders "stranded" in their home countries waiting for interviews, and start rolling back green cards and citizenship for those who committed fraud. We voted for the man who is exposing and prosecuting foreign fraud in hospices, childcare centers, and other programs that were draining American taxpayers. We watched him pressure Venezuela and help roll back communism in our hemisphere while pulling back USAID money that was being used to push globalist policies across Central and South America. We saw countries as a bloc starting to kick the globalists out. Trump is not a saint. But he is the first president in our lifetimes who seemed beholden to nationalist ideals instead of globalist ones. He puts America and American workers first, even if imperfectly. Here is the truth the media will never say: the biggest complaint many of us have with Trump is not that he is too radical. It is that he is not radical enough. If people think Trump is extreme, they are really not going to like what comes after him. Because this generation is done waiting. We will keep voting for nationalists until American citizens are prioritized again, in jobs, wages, housing, benefits, and culture. We tried the “moderate” path for decades. It gave us open borders, wage collapse, and a disappearing middle class. We are not going back. This generation voted to put Americans first. And we will keep doing it until the job is finished.

🇺🇸 Trump's border team is reframing the asylum fight around a point they say gets ignored. Their case: across the last decade, the majority of asylum seekers ultimately didn't qualify and were ordered out, and a large share skipped their hearings entirely. That backlog buries the system and pushes genuine refugees, the people actually escaping persecution, to the back of the line. This isn't the border security debate anymore. It's a question of who the system lets through, and why. Writer: Lynn, Daniel x.com/RapidResponse4…

⚡️AI is creating inflation before it creates abundance. That is the whole thing. The public was sold the clean fantasy: AI automates labor, software eats cost, productivity explodes, prices fall, everyone gets more output with fewer inputs. The physical system is saying something harsher. Before AI can deflate work, it must inflate the inputs required to build intelligence. Chips. Memory. servers. Power. land. cooling. transformers. copper. data centers. grid connections. specialized construction. cloud capacity. security. scarce engineering labor. All of that gets bid up first. This chart is the receipt. Computer software and accessories used to sit inside the great deflationary engine of technology. More capability, lower cost, faster cycles. That was the consumer miracle of the digital age. AI is breaking that pattern because the next leap in capability is no longer cheap software layered on existing hardware. It requires a full-scale industrial buildout. The model is digital. The machine that feeds it is brutally physical. That means AI is not just a productivity story. It is a resource-allocation shock. The civilization is diverting capital, electricity, memory, chips, and industrial capacity toward machine cognition. Consumers then see higher iPad prices, higher Mac prices, higher software costs, higher cloud bills, higher electricity stress, and more expensive enterprise tools. The machine gets fed first. Everyone else pays the input tax. That is why this is so important. The inflation is no longer just pandemic residue, energy shock, fiscal excess, or services stickiness. A new inflation channel has opened: intelligence infrastructure inflation. The owners of the bottleneck win. Memory suppliers win. Power owners win. Data-center landlords win. Grid-equipment suppliers win. Copper and transformer supply chains win. Cloud platforms with pricing power win. AI infrastructure financiers win. Consumers, small businesses, and wage earners absorb the cost before the productivity dividend reaches them. That sequencing is savage. The rich and the platforms get the productivity upside early. The public gets the price pressure early. That is how every major industrial transition works. The new system is built through scarcity, extraction, and higher input costs before it becomes cheap enough to feel like abundance. Musk sees the jump because he lives inside the bottleneck stack. Tesla, xAI, SpaceX, data centers, chips, power, robotics. He knows compute inflation is real because every frontier company is trying to buy the same scarce inputs at the same time. The political backlash is now guaranteed. AOC and Bernie attacking data centers. Apple raising prices. Utilities warning about grid strain. Memory costs moving into devices. Software prices rising. Consumers noticing that “AI progress” is making ordinary tech more expensive. That is the setup for a new political conflict: who pays for the intelligence buildout? The answer, unless forced otherwise, is obvious: the public pays through prices, rates, taxes, and degraded infrastructure while the owners capture the surplus. The cleanest read: AI is repricing the nervous system of the economy. The old internet lowered the marginal cost of distribution. AI raises the upfront cost of cognition. That difference changes the macro regime. The third inflation wave has begun.

Elon Musk @elonmusk

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Tim Cook, who told The Wall Street Journal that the jump in costs was unlike anything he had seen “in any area in over 40 years.” Biggest price jump in anything I’ve ever seen too. wsj.com/economy/the-da…

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Justice Alito made it simple: TPS means TEMPORARY, not a permanent loophole to bypass normal immigration rules. Courts don’t get to override the Secretary of Homeland Security’s decisions on this. Bonus: Green light to restart metering/turnaway policies at the border, if you haven’t arrived in the U.S., you can’t claim asylum. No more abusing the system. Trump is restoring order, enforcing the law, and putting America first. This is exactly what voters demanded.

I now understand the American dream. I came to the World Cup because I was offered a last minute ticket to watch England play Croatia in Dallas and I started documenting my journey. The content went viral on social media. So much so, the President of the United States saw it himself. I was invited to attend the grand opening of the great American state fair for freedom 250 and halfway through Donald Trumps speech, I was told to come and wait back stage for a photograph. This sort of thing could only happen in America. As an Englishman I never really understood what America has to make it “the land of opportunity” But results speak for themselves.

🇨🇦’s democracy isn’t dying. It died overnight. April 23, 2026: Ontario politicians passed a “law” exempting THEMSELVES from public scrutiny—in the middle of the night. Every irreversible collapse starts the same way. First the public is an inconvenience. Then we’re the enemy.

This is not just another 4-year election where you write executive orders and the next administration reverses everything. Everything Trump is doing right now is designed to be PERMANENT. Getting Supreme Court rulings on birthright citizenship. On one-day voting. On the Second Amendment. On deportation authority. On election integrity. Every ruling puts a block in place that makes it extremely difficult for the deep state players to ever push their agenda again. He's reinforcing the Constitution permanently. Not just for now — but for generations.

Bingo! Trump’s EO’s are ALREADY Constitutional. He is researching, then writing EO’s to enforce the laws ALREADY on the books. They have just never been fully enforced. By writing an EO, Trump FORCES the enemy to file lawsuits, so that he can win at the Supreme Court and SOLIDIFY these laws “permanently.” Trump is proving that he doesn’t need Congress to “codify” laws that ALREADY exist. Guess what? Same goes for the SAVE Act. It’s ALREADY illegal for non-citizens to vote in federal elections. Trump doesn’t need the Senate to pass the SAVE Act. READ THAT AGAIN! He has said for a long time, that he was going to do it by EO. He said it back in February. “President Trump on Friday indicated he will issue an executive order seeking to require voters to present proof of citizenship if the Senate does not pass the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility (SAVE) America Act, which passed in the House this week. “There will be Voter I.D. for the Midterm Elections, whether approved by Congress or not!” Trump wrote on Truth Social around 4:30 p.m. EST. “Also, the People of our Country are insisting on Citizenship, and No Mail-In Ballots, with exceptions for Military, Disability, Illness, or Travel.” “He followed up with a second post 30 minutes later floating an executive order.” “This is an issue that must be fought, and must be fought, NOW!” Trump wrote in a lengthy post on Truth Social. “If we can’t get it through Congress, there are Legal reasons why this SCAM is not permitted. I will be presenting them shortly, in the form of an Executive Order.” thehill.com/homenews/admin… Have you noticed that Trump recently demanded that the SAVE Act be attached to the FISA renewal? Why? FOCUSING the people. And just yesterday, he went to the Senate and demanded that they pass the SAVE Act now. Why? More FOCUSING the people on this issue. Enjoy the SHOW. That confrontation between Trump and the republicans in the Senate was “purposeful.” It got national media attention. Then what happened? Surprise! The Senate just went on “vacation.” Do you think Trump wasn’t expecting that? “The table is now set.” Trump has no choice. Right?😁 Guess what’s incoming? An EO to FORCE every state to uphold the SAVE Act for the upcoming federal elections. A lawsuit will soon follow and once again, Trump will have baited the enemy insurgency into taking the fight to the Supreme Court, where Trump ALREADY knows he’s going to win. A Supreme Court ruling upholding photo ID and citizenship requirement to vote in federal elections, will then be “set in stone.” A permanent PRECEDENT. And here’s what almost everyone is missing: Most people think that unless the Senate passes the SAVE Act, then the next president can just reverse it, because it’s only an Executive Order. Wrong. Trump isn’t writing a new law. It’s ALREADY unconstitutional for illegals, dead people and non citizens to vote in federal elections. Trump will just be “declaring” through EXECUTIVE ORDER, that he is now enforcing the law ALREADY on the books and the Supreme Court will then “declare” that his EO is Constitutional. Do you understand how important that is? Any president trying to reverse Trump’s EO on the SAVE Act, will lose in court because their EO will be deemed “unconstitutional.” There’s a huge difference between an Executive Order by a president, that is changing “policy, rules, regulations or initiatives” ……and an Executive Order by a president, that is enforcing and protecting the Constitutional rights of American citizens. Midterms are ALREADY safe. Power back to the people. The enemy has actually walked right into a trap. All of these Supreme Court rulings “upholding” Trump’s EO’s as Constitutional, makes it much harder for ANY future president or Congress to reverse them. Checkmate! Thank you for playing.

X22 Report @X22Report

6 days ago

This is not just another 4-year election where you write executive orders and the next administration reverses everything. Everything Trump is doing right now is designed to be PERMANENT. Getting Supreme Court rulings on birthright citizenship. On one-day voting. On the Second

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