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Jeff Bezos said the bottom half of Americans should pay zero federal income tax. He cited a nurse in Queens making ~$75K and paying ~$12K in taxes saying “we shouldn’t be asking this nurse in Queens to send money to Washington.”


🚨🇺🇸 KENTUCKY 4TH UPDATE: Gallrein: 57% Massie: 43% 13.5% of votes counted. The $35M attack against him appears to be landing. 108,000 votes still need to come in. The most anti-establishment Republican in Congress is in real trouble tonight...

🚨🇺🇸BREAKING: Thomas Massie is OUT. Ed Gallrein is projected to win the Kentucky 4th primary, 54.4% to 45.6%. The man who introduced the Epstein Files Transparency Act, voted against Iran, and wanted AIPAC registered as a foreign agent just got bought out by $35M ... The most expensive primary in history closes.

Massie’s Race Matters!

Jeremy Corbell was told by an intelligence agency that there is a credible hit on his life “I was told by an agency, they brought a sincere, credible and urgent threat to my life, to me.”

American tourist educated by Aussie man when visiting his store: ‘You used to be the good guys’





China has spent years claiming the US war with Iran has nothing to do with it. Then one of America's top think tanks ran the numbers. It turns out the war is bleeding China from five different directions simultaneously. The Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) published a detailed economic analysis on April 30, 2026, examining how the Iran war, now in its ninth week, is hitting the world's second largest economy. The findings are more damaging than Beijing's public posture suggests. The most immediate pain is energy. China imports over one third of its total crude oil supply through the Strait of Hormuz every year. Since the war began on February 28, retail gasoline prices in China have surged 39%, and LNG prices have jumped 42%. That is the largest gasoline price spike China has recorded since its current pricing system began in 2013, surpassing even the shock from Russia's invasion of Ukraine in 2022. China has 70 vessels stranded behind the Strait of Hormuz that it is struggling to get free. Foreign Minister Wang Yi told his Thai counterpart directly. The export damage is just as serious. Nearly one third of China's entire GDP growth in 2025 came from net exports, the highest share since 1997. The IMF has already downgraded forecasts for eight of China's top 20 export markets, including the UAE, where projected import growth swung from positive 7.1% to negative 8.4% in a single revision. Fewer customers buying means fewer Chinese factories running. Then there are the supply chains. Pesticide prices in China surged 46% between February and mid-April. Sulfuric acid, a key fertilizer ingredient, climbed 72%. Polypropylene plastic surged 40%. In industrial regions, factory trucks are lining up to secure plastic supplies. In February 2026, 34% of Chinese manufacturing firms above a designated size were already running at a loss. If that number climbs, layoffs follow. Manufacturing employs roughly one fifth of China's population. China's chipmaking sector faces a specific chokepoint: helium. China imports 85% of its helium demand, roughly half from Qatar, which is directly affected by the war. No helium means semiconductor production lines slow down. Helium spot prices have already spiked. The effects will compound the longer the conflict runs. Chinese investments in the Middle East are also at risk. In 2025, the region was the single largest destination for Chinese overseas investment globally, with at least $26 billion in projects signed. A $4 billion Chinese port project in Kuwait was struck by Iranian drone and cruise missiles in March 2026. Beijing has pledged up to $400 billion in Iranian infrastructure over 25 years under a 2021 agreement. That program is now in serious question. China is better insulated than Japan, South Korea, or Taiwan, which depend on the strait for over 90%, 70%, and 58% of their crude imports respectively. China has the world's largest strategic oil reserve at 1.4 billion barrels. Its coal dependence and EV adoption provide buffers. But better insulated is not the same as unaffected. Xi Jinping told Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince that the Strait of Hormuz "should maintain normal passage." That is the closest Beijing has come to publicly acknowledging Iran is the problem. The country that buys over 80% of Iran's oil is now quietly hoping its best energy client stops blocking the waterway that feeds its own economy. Full analysis: chinapower.csis.org/china-economic… #China #CCP #IranWar #Economy #StraitOfHormuz #Energy #Geopolitics #CSIS #ChinaEconomy #MiddleEast








