I seem to remember Trump fighting these guys to a draw in the Red Sea in early 2025

 Iran-backed Houthis seize key port in Yemen, advance on another vital oil choke point

~cost only $1.3 trillion lol

 Trump promises $5,000 ‘dividend’ to U.S. citizens if Republicans win midterms

Nuttier than a fruitcake. 

Trump's Overton Window to crazy in Michigan: Antifa DSA Democrat Will Lawrence seeks MI-7 seat, wants to abolish old people, police, prisons, fossil fuels, the U.S. Senate, borders, capitalism, and the nuclear family

Yes, Michigan can produce worse than Abdul.

 

Swing-Seat Dem Deletes Posts on 'World Without Police'

Andrew Kaczynski, CNN

 

 

 

OMG the guy who opened the Overton Window For Every Current Crazy Idea in the first place is pictured right next to Paul Ryan spouting another one ROFLMAO

 

Trump's IRS turns a blind eye to illegal alien employment

 

Exposed: Illegal Alien Employment Workaround

Victoria Manning, Restoration News

 

Federal law prohibits employers from knowingly hiring an unauthorized immigrant and from employing someone without work authorization. Yet a growing network of nonprofits and universities is teaching the illegal alien community exactly how to get around the law, one Individual Taxpayer Identification Number (ITIN) at a time.

The IRS only cares about collecting taxes—illegal or not. It all starts with the ITIN.

Immigrants Rising, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit, is one of several organizations Restoration News has uncovered that openly help undocumented immigrants bypass work authorization requirements. It is just one example in our investigative series on the topic.

... Even though foreigners should not work in the United States without work authorization, an ITIN can be used to obtain an Employer Identification Number (EIN) to establish a business. The IRS is aware of this workaround—and looks away.

 

... The IRS states that an ITIN does not “authorize you to work legally in the U.S.” However, you can “apply for an ITIN regardless of immigration status.” Uncle Sam wants its tax money, even if the employment violates work authorization laws.

 

The process is severely flawed. Lawful immigrants who follow the lengthy and costly process to come to America legally often still must wait in line to receive proper work authorization. Yet the IRS turns a blind eye to illegal aliens who circumvent the law to take jobs away from legal migrants and citizens.

 

The IRS allows third-party groups known as Certifying Acceptance Agents (CAAs) to process paperwork and certify the identities of applicants to obtain an ITIN. Nearly anyone can become a CAA—just complete the online training, apply, and wait for approval. Illegal aliens can then go to a CAA to obtain an ITIN without ever having to interact directly with the IRS. A student identification card (for individuals under age 24), a foreign driver’s license, and a foreign birth certificate are acceptable documents to verify a person’s identity for an ITIN. No need to prove legal status, and those documents don’t have to be sent to the IRS. They remain with the CAA.

 

... The IRS should stop treating tax compliance as a substitute for legal status. And the Department of Homeland Security and the Justice Department should start asking why elite universities and tax-exempt organizations are functioning as distribution channels for a workaround to federal law. 

When CNBC says you are a fascist . . .

 Trump’s state capitalism comes to the oil industry with his unprecedented Venezuela deal

This blatant political interference with the full faith and credit of the United States by the president should be condemned by everyone

 Trump doubles down on threat to halt trade with top partners unless Fed cuts rates

Trump's immigration policies have been all sound and fury, signifying nothing

All theatre.

Yes, very bad theatre, but theatre nonetheless.

The foreign born population in August 2026 is virtually unchanged from October 2024. 

 

 

When yields were hopeful about federal spending cuts from DOGE and federal revenue increases from tariffs

"Fiscal discipline" from Mad King Ludwig: 

Trump is too stupid to take the win handed to him by +162k payrolls in August

  New York Fed’s Williams says yield surge due to strong economic prospects

Analysis: Lower Treasury yields could require a weaker economy. Trump won’t fix them 

... The rise in real yields is “more of a reflection of the strength of the economy,” New York Federal Reserve President John Williams told CNBC Wednesday. Some people want to read the rise in yields as dragging on the economy, but that logic is backward, he said. 

“It’s not really about financial conditions affecting the economy. It’s more about the economy affecting financial conditions,” Williams said.  

The flip side of Williams’ analysis is that it may take an economic slowdown for borrowing costs to cool. But that isn’t a solution anyone would want to root for.

 

I don't know how you crash something that was so tiny already, but Trump found a way

 Manufacturing employment as a percentage of population:

 

Mad King Ludwig blows another gasket

 Trump tells Fed to slash rates or he’ll end trade with countries with U.S. surpluses

If ever an act deserved the hook, this is it.

 

 

 

One reason I don't trust the Trump Administration's illegal immigrant statistics is that we didn't have the biggest increase to the foreign born population until January 2025 when Trump & Co. took charge of the data

 The percent increase to the foreign born population was 3.27% in January 2025, the highest on record.

That's a Trump Administration figure which it is more than happy to blame on Biden, but it came out under Trump's watch in February 2025, not under Biden.

It would be to Trump's advantage to exaggerate the problem on the front end to claim larger effects on the back end.

But it makes ABSOLUTELY NO SENSE that there would be the biggest surge of immigrants into the country ever just as their biggest enemy ever is about to take office.

Meanwhile the biggest percentage declines to foreign born population came in June 2023 and April 2024, 1.91% and 1.92% respectively, when Biden was still president.

We don't interpret that as evidence of a non-existent Biden policy which was tough on migration.

Whatever one makes of the government data, it shows that we still have 48 million foreign born in America in July 2026, same as we did in December 2023. The figure captures both legal and illegal aliens in addition to American citizens.

The question I have is why is this all coming out one day before we get the August 2026 data?

Are they expecting bad news and trying to get out ahead of it? 

 

Trump cuts migrant population by nearly 3 million; total U.S. population likely to drop 

President Trump has cut the illegal immigrant population by 2.3 million since he took office, according to a preliminary analysis of government numbers to be released Thursday.

... The drop in illegal immigrants, although significant, is lower than the Homeland Security Department’s own published figures.

In January, at the one-year mark of the Trump presidency, the department said it had removed nearly 3 million illegal immigrants from the country, including 675,000 compelled deportations and 2.2 million self-deportations. ... 

 

That's still total incompetence and nothing but more theatre from Trump

 

ICE on Track To Hit Goal of 2,000 Daily Arrests

Sun & McCann, New York Times

 

Applied over four years, hello we're coming up on the half-way mark, he'd still arrest only 3 million out of at least 11 million illegal aliens present in the United States at 2,000 arrests per day.

 

Trump has never been serious about this problem. 

 

 

Natalie's only guest tonight will be Mad King Ludwig discussing The Three Amigos

 

Wayne Allyn Root would like Trump to declare another national emergency, for the election

 The emergency will be after the election lol.

 

The Trump administration is going to become irrelevant in 2 years, if it hasn't already

Fixed it for ya. 

20% of the world's oil production will never not be relevant. 

Bessent: The Strait of Hormuz Is Going To Become Irrelevant In 2 Years

Trump: Our socialism goooood, their socialism baaaaad

House Republican Rips Trump Admin Taking Stakes In 30 Private Companies: ‘Not the Conservative Position’

 

... In the clip Bacon shared, Lincicome fumed, “The reality is that, since last June, we’ve gone from the government owning zero shares in zero private companies to now owning equity stakes in 30 different companies. In some cases, the government is now the largest shareholder.” ...

 

It's pretty hard to run against Abdul's proposal for a 50% federal ownership stake in AI companies with a 50%+1 federal presence on their boards of directors when you do the same thing, which is probably why no one is talking about Abdul's proposal. 

Why bother when Trump's doing that all by himself in 2026?

 Joe Kent: Massie, MTG, and I Tried to Draft Tucker Carlson to End the American Empire in 2028

So I guess this means we're finally going all the way to Moscow and nuking the Chicoms