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Mark, one more time! Please make more noise about this. What’s the point of championing American manufacturing if on the back end the US govt continues to allow this to happen?? I’ve been building my factory for the last 5 years. It would be 3x the size it is now and have 5x the number of employees if we didn’t have to constantly deal with this.

@michaelpatron0 @ajassy Eye opening watch patron if you haven’t seen. At some point in corporations are going to push to far and we are all going to pay the price for it. youtube.com/watch?v=Vewz1v…

Yo @ajassy can you tell us how raising our fees, holding our cash hostage and eliminating our ability to pay our ads with a credit card is helpful for small business? Doing this with almost zero notice is a coward move. Get off the yacht and come address your sellers BRO.

@michaelpatron0 @ajassy They don’t care bro.

For decades, Democrat and Republican administrations have promised that export opportunities and a “level playing field” will benefit American manufacturers and workers. REALITY CHECK: It’s never happened.

@atsohom We lost that fight unfortunately

Charlie,you should look into the reality of what is happening. This is happening to every small american business in America selling online. You want opportunity for gen z so Trump wins the day -- selling on the platforms is a fast track to creating opportunities for Gen Z. Why are we allowing the chinese to take all of this marketshare away from our own sellers? Our own small businesses are being decimated everyday by foreign sellers. Here's the evidence ---> x.com/JeremyThurswel…

@DaveBords @drgurner @davidpattersonx Incredible how few see that right now.

@drgurner @davidpattersonx You need to chill with all this logic. Can't you see the hypetrain leaving the station? We produce enough to meet the basic needs of all without AI, yet many go hungry. The issue is greed, not production. Greater efficiency from AI will help the few, not the many.

If you won’t retire within the next 5 to 10 years, there is no need to save money for retirement. Everyone will receive a universal high income (UHI), which will be worth 10 to 100 times more than the average salary today.

Well, the real factors are this: in the consumer goods space, opportunities for US brands and manufacturers continues to be steamrolled by platforms allowing foreign sellers to skirt IP rules and tariffs. Small brands have no leverage to correct this. Unhinged IP theft has wiped out at least a million importers over the last 8 years. What did Trump do to correct this? Nothing. Components and machine builders in the US have a global supply chain heavily reliant on foreign components. To rebuild a components supply chain in the US would take a decade. So why the tariffs on components we don't make here?? How do we rebuild a supply chain without the components? Who will build all the machinery needed to rebuild these factories with increased costs across the board? Billion dollar multinationals, MAYBE. But the SMB, no chance man. I could go into greater detail on how piss poor the trade war strategy was, but the damage is done man. Trump showed China just how much he lacks in an understanding of how today's supply chains work.

You closed your shop after 6 years as a relative newcomer, noting policy wasn't the sole reason, if any, so let's consider what other real factors led to that🤔. Tariffs are part of the tough medicine to rebalance trade long-term, even if they sting short-term; true survivors adapt to volume shifts and China's tactics instead of folding quickly. Many have endured decades through worse. My point stands: generations of offshoring won't reverse in just a few months, and dismissing early efforts ignores the real timeline for rebuilding.

Wow...this is a damning assessment on affordability from a trump guy

@67Designs good posts as always man. keep raising the alarms.

We are witnessing, in real time, the quiet extinction of a certain kind of in this case, American genius: the genius of the man who can simply do the job better than anyone else alive, and who, when he finally lays down his tools, takes the entire trick with him to the grave. We have spent enough time in factories across American to recognise these figures. The old guard. Men (almost invariably men) who began as apprentices when apprenticeships still meant something, who learned their craft in the days when “health and safety” had not yet been weaponised into a substitute for competence, and who, through a mixture of obsessive care, brute experience, and what can only be described as a form of love, achieved results that no amount of ISO certification or digital twinning can replicate. (Note: igital twinning should be banned!) You see it in the G-code archives, the meticulously saved CAM files, the drawers of fixtures and collets. All preserved, all perfectly useless. Because the real program was not written in Fusion 360 or Mastercam. It was written in the old boy’s head, in the muscle memory of his hands, in the thousand tiny adjustments he made while standing at the machine in the small hours, listening to the spindle the way a sailor once listened to the wind. When he dies or retires to his RV (or, more likely these days, simply drops dead between shifts), the yield collapses. The scrap rate climbs. The tolerances wander. And everyone pretends to be shocked. Now extend that story to the fellow in North Texas who has been hard-coat anodising aluminium since he was sixteen. A cantankerous old devil, by all accounts (the best ones always are). He will not take work from just anyone; you have to earn the right to have your parts racked by him. And when those parts come back (Type III, Class 2, black, two thou thick, dyed in the tank the way God and Mil-A-8625 intended), they are, quite simply, perfect. Perfect enough to be trusted on equipment carried by men who go in harm’s way. In five years not one apprentice has lasted. Four twelve-hour days of racking, masking, anodising, dyeing, sealing, unpacking, packing again. The work is hot, wet, and corrosive. It demands concentration and pride at a level the modern temperament no longer possesses. And so, very shortly, the doors will be locked for the last time. The landlord will drain the tanks, probably discovering half a dozen baskets of our phone holder parts “off-the-rack” parts quietly dissolving at the bottom (a secret embarrassment we all pretend does not happen). And several hundred small machine shops across the state will discover that the supply chain they took for granted has vanished. The remaining platers and coaters are themselves either grizzled independents on the verge of retirement or private-equity roll-ups run by caretaker managers whose bonuses are tied to throughput, not quality. You can guess which incentive wins. This is not a regional curiosity. It is a national elegy. From Connecticut to California, the same quiet closures are taking place: the electroplaters, the chem-film shops, the passivation houses, the NADCAP-certified painters who actually deserve the certification. All disappearing. And with them disappears the ability of the small and medium-sized machine shops (the real backbone of Western manufacturing) to deliver finished parts that meet print. We are told, incessantly, that we need more machine shops, more CNC spindles turning, more “reshoring.” But what exactly is the point of machining a part to five decimal places if you cannot anodise, plate, or coat it within two hundred miles without taking a second mortgage for freight? The part is useless until it is finished, and the finishing trades are dying faster than the machining ones.

@1914ad @saylor @Strategy can you link full keynote?

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@1m_chart @BillDA Are you factoring all the value destroyed in the process?

@BillDA data says otherwise x.com/okaythenfuture…

Not to mention the millions of small businesses created and enabled by the Amazon marketplace Bezos is probably the single broadest wealth creator of all time, and even $238B is a fraction of it

@ShinghiD L f g

Hell Yeah!

@ShinghiD @SenRickScott Great work man!

Just had the honor of meeting with @SenRickScott from the great state of Florida to discuss E-Commerce issues and Religious Freedom in S Korea.

This isn't getting any media coverage in the west but it's a big deal - 60% of sellers on Amazon-US are Chinese based and the Chinese government is starting to crack down on under-declared earnings. This means the cost structure is effectively changing for the worse for 60% of Amazon's seller base (and on top of that the US tariffs implemented this year).

@PaigeSully88 @MorePerfectUS they convinced many in the masses that this is the best way too.

@MorePerfectUS Yep. And notice no one is complaining about the health insurance companies or PE-backed hospitals as the cause of higher premiums. They’re advocating that Americans offset those premiums by paying higher taxes

Insurance CEOs got a 27% pay bump over the last year, while you’re paying more and more. The ten biggest insurance CEOs got over $134 million total in 2024. Meanwhile they raised homeowners insurance 24% over the last 3 years, and auto insurance 7% is higher than last year.

Best way to lower beef prices is to enforce anti-trust regulations on the 4 largest beef packers and everyone wins. It all starts with them. Consumers will be happy and ranchers will have healthy margins. But the globalist cabal will not approve. @beefinitiative

@67Designs @andrewkornuta Wow. Didnt know that. I hope this problem is resolved.

@DomFilo1 @andrewkornuta Sorry, but no.. the worst offenders are fellow American citizens! They shill for the factories.

How are we seeing Chinese companies selling in the U.S. and essentially saying they are not paying and/or passing on tariffs? The use of the American flag implying Made in the USA is increasing massively on Amazon and Shopify.

@andrewkornuta @67Designs Remove all Non-Resident Importers and this problem mostly goes away.

This is a big issue and there are multiple things going on here. Chinese sellers ship container loads of products into the U.S. in advance, declaring a very low customs value or routing through intermediaries in places like Mexico, Canada, or bonded warehouses. Once the goods are inside U.S. borders, they are be redistributed domestically without additional tariffs. To add insult to injury, distributors (like Uline, Grainger, and yes even our beloved McMaster Carr) are US businesses and lend some credibility to these mechanisms. We need an FBI for the FTC if we're going to enforce and win at trade wars. Sign me up if that ever becomes a thing!

@proales @agupta @terronk I know many people that would say otherwise.

This is an unfortunate position because while Amazon’s retail business shows signs of big tech monopoly that hurt the little guy, AWS is a story of how immense competition can drive down costs for the little guy. Nearly every company that was affected by that outage couldn’t have existed if AWS hadn’t been built and relentlessly competed on price to win their business.

@aphysicist @67Designs Bezo's contribution to the American people is a net negative. All of the "value" creation you are referring to is not taking into account all of the "value" destruction Amazon has caused. My two sense.

@67Designs i'm just pointing out some facts here 👀

remind me again which socialist has created $3+ trillion of value, 1.5+ million jobs, and hundreds of billions of dollars saved for consumers, oh right, no one