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Think Trump “betrayed” you? Read this first. Some people are mad about gas prices and cost of living and saying Trump sold them out. I get it - everything still feels expensive. But you need to understand how an economy actually works. This isn’t a light switch. It’s a cargo ship. It takes time to turn. WHAT TRUMP INHERITED (2025) He did NOT inherit cheap prices. He inherited high prices locked into the system from 2021–2024 inflation. When Biden took office: ~ Inflation ~1.2% ~ Gas ~ $2.39 ~ Prices overall much lower When Trump took office (2025): ~ Prices already ~20% higher than 2021 ~ Gas had hit $5 during Biden years ~ Food up 20–25% ~ Real wages had fallen ~ Savings rates dropped IMPORTANT: Even when inflation drops, prices don’t go back down - they just stop rising as fast. BIDEN YEARS (2021–2025) What actually caused the pain people feel now: ~ Massive government spending ~ Supply chain crisis ~ Energy restrictions ~ Russia/Ukraine war ~ Inflation peaked at 9.1% ~ Prices rose ~20% overall ~ Gas hit $5 ~ Groceries up 20–25% ~ Real wages went backwards THAT’S WHERE THE COST OF LIVING PAIN CAME FROM. TRUMP FIRST 14 MONTHS (2025–2026) Now look at the direction since he came back: ~ Inflation down to ~2.4% ~ Gas around mid $3 range (well below $5 peak) ~ Unemployment ~4.4% (still very low) ~ GDP growth strong in 2025 ~ Wages rising faster than inflation again ~ Manufacturing and energy investment rising ~ Stock market hitting highs ~ Domestic oil production rising again Macro economy is improving first. Local prices come later. WHY YOU DON’T FEEL IT YET This is the part people don’t understand: ~ Stores locked into supply contracts ~ Rent adjusts slowly ~ Wages adjust slowly ~ State taxes & regulations affect local prices ~ Global events affect oil prices ~ Food prices lag inflation by 12–24 months Inflation goes down first. Then wages rise. Then prices stabilize. Then people feel relief. We are currently in stage 1–2, not stage 4. BOTTOM LINE Trump didn’t betray anyone. He inherited: ~High prices ~ Global instability ~ Inflation damage already done What he’s done so far: ~ Brought inflation way down ~ Increased energy production ~ Kept unemployment low ~ Growing the economy ~ Real wages rising again Economies take years to fix, not months. But the direction right now is very clearly up, not down. FACTS OVER FEELINGS.

Peter Thiel just compressed forty years of American decline into one sentence. Thiel: “Silicon Valley deals in the world of bits; most of the economy is the world of atoms.” For four decades, the most talented engineers alive funneled into a single corridor. Computers. Software. Mobile. Internet. Not because the physical world ran out of problems. Because solving them became illegal. Thiel: “It was a bad idea to become an aerospace engineer. These were all industries that were sort of in structural decline because they were getting outlawed, they were getting regulated to death.” Nuclear. Chemical. Mechanical. Aerospace. Field after field, regulated into silence before a generation of builders ever arrived. Thiel: “Computer science was the only sort of scientific, technical field that actually had a future in the 1980s.” So the builders went where building was still allowed. The physical world paid in decades. Founders Fund: “We wanted flying cars. Instead we got 140 characters.” That is not satire. That is the ledger. Now AI is forcing the reckoning no one scheduled. The intelligence being built inside data centers does not stay inside data centers. It moves into manufacturing. Into energy. Into aerospace. Into every domain that was locked and left to decay. That gap is closing. Faster than most institutions can process. America fills it. Or cedes it.

Hong Kong Has Fallen--AND CHINA IS PAYING DEARLY FOR IT

🇺🇸 🇮🇷 KHARG ISLAND IS IRAN'S GOLDEN GOOSE: The video nails it - Kharg Island is Iran's golden goose and Trump knows exactly where to squeeze. THE ISLAND HANDLES NEARLY ALL OF IRAN'S OIL EXPORTS: This tiny coral outcrop sitting roughly twenty five kilometers off Iran's coast handles around ninety percent of the regime's entire crude oil exports with pipelines pumping black gold straight from mainland fields to massive loading jetties where supertankers line up like desperate customers at a gas station. HOW A PRECISION ASSAULT WOULD UNFOLD: An assault would start with overwhelming air and naval dominance - precision strikes to blind Iranian radars and air defenses followed by Marine Expeditionary Units launching from amphibious ships or helicopters screaming in under heavy escort to seize the island in a lightning raid while special forces neutralize any remaining IRGC holdouts and booby traps. STRATEGIC KNOCKOUT PUNCH TO END THE WAR: Strategically it is a knockout punch because crippling or controlling Kharg would slash Iran's war funding overnight by cutting off billions in oil revenue that keeps the mullahs' terror machine running while giving America leverage to force the Strait of Hormuz back open under threat of total economic strangulation. TRUMP IS NOT PLAYING THE OLD WEAK GAMES: This is not endless tit-for-tat games like the last administration played. Trump is moving to end the war fast by hitting the economic jugular so the regime has no choice but to fold before they drag the whole region into deeper chaos. WHAT'S YOUR TAKE: Would an air and ground assault on Kharg Island be worth it if it helps to win the war? ⬇️

Another brilliant analysis from Susan Kokinda. Here she also addresses Canada's Mark Carney's actions. Things are changing and the the war between the old British world order. Filled by WEF, UN, WHO and China is falling apart. Winning!!! PrometheanAction.com

In January 2026, the United States overthrew Nicolás Maduro and seized operational control of Venezuela’s oil exports. In February 2026, the United States and Israel launched strikes on Iran that closed the Strait of Hormuz. These are not separate events. They are the same strategy executed in sequence. Before the first bomb fell on Tehran, the US had already redirected 900,000 barrels per day of Venezuelan crude away from China and toward American, European, and Indian refiners. Chevron, Vitol, and Trafigura now market PDVSA oil under General License 52, with all proceeds flowing to a US Treasury account. China’s share of Venezuelan exports collapsed from over 600,000 barrels per day to 48,000 in February, a 67 percent drop in weeks. The US did not announce this as war preparation. It announced it as democracy promotion. But the barrel does not care what you call it. Now connect the second move. China buys 80 to 91 percent of Iran’s oil exports, approximately 1.38 million barrels per day transiting the Strait of Hormuz. The strait is now closed. Iran’s export infrastructure is under sustained bombardment. Kharg Island, which handles 90 percent of Iranian crude, is on the Pentagon’s contingency list. In two months, the United States has cut China off from its two largest non-traditional crude suppliers simultaneously: Venezuela by regime change, Iran by war. Combined, China has lost access to roughly two million barrels per day of supply it was receiving 60 days ago. This is why Dar is in Beijing today. China is not mediating the Iran war out of altruism or diplomatic ambition. China is mediating because it is running out of affordable oil. The country that controls 90 percent of the world’s rare earth processing, that supplies BeiDou navigation to Iranian missiles and neodymium magnets to American interceptors, that holds the leverage to end or extend this war, is sitting at the negotiating table because the United States methodically cut its energy supply lines before the first missile was fired. The grand bargain is not a theory. It is a pressure system. The US needs Chinese rare earths to rebuild 2,400 depleted Patriot interceptors. China needs Hormuz open and Venezuelan barrels restored. The US controls the Venezuelan spigot. China controls the rare earth pipeline. Each side holds a chokepoint the other cannot survive without. The deal writes itself: rare earth guarantees for oil access, semiconductor export relief for Hormuz security, Taiwan status-quo assurance for NPT compliance. Every variable has a price. Every price has a counterparty. And both counterparties are now desperate enough to pay. Venezuela was the opening move. Iran is the middle game. Beijing is the endgame. The molecule that connects all three is crude oil, and the country that controls where it flows controls the terms of the peace. The US did not stumble into this war. It secured alternative supply, redirected barrels away from its principal competitor, launched the campaign that closed the competitor’s primary import route, and is now negotiating from a position where the competitor must choose between its rare earth leverage and its energy security. That is not improvisation. That is the most sophisticated energy weapon deployed since the 1973 Arab oil embargo, except this time, America is not the victim. It is the architect. The arithmetic leads to Beijing. It always did. The only question was whether Beijing would arrive at the table voluntarily or be starved into it. The answer, as of March 31, is the latter. open.substack.com/pub/shanakaans…

Indeed, it was *because* I was not from the aerospace industry that SpaceX made such radical breakthroughs. Same for Tesla. Those in the industry would have if they could have.

Who makes decisions in the United States: A single radical district court judge, or the people that Americans elected and appointed? @GeneHamilton breaks it down with @EveningEdit on @FoxBusiness.

🚨 WATCH: In a stunning move, Secretary of State Marco Rubio pledges to support Vice President JD Vance for the 2028 presidential election. Marco Rubio declared, "If JD Vance runs for president, he’s going to be our nominee and I’ll be one of the first people to support him."

𝐒𝐒𝐀 𝐂𝐎𝐌𝐌𝐈𝐒𝐒𝐈𝐎𝐍𝐄𝐑: “𝐖𝐄 𝐇𝐀𝐕𝐄 𝐎𝐕𝐄𝐑 𝟑 𝐌𝐈𝐋𝐋𝐈𝐎𝐍 𝐓𝐑𝐔𝐌𝐏 𝐀𝐂𝐂𝐎𝐔𝐍𝐓𝐒 𝐎𝐏𝐄𝐍𝐄𝐃. 𝐖𝐄’𝐑𝐄 𝐀𝐁𝐎𝐔𝐓 𝐓𝐎 𝐏𝐈𝐄𝐑𝐂𝐄 𝐀 𝐌𝐈𝐋𝐋𝐈𝐎𝐍 𝐁𝐀𝐁𝐈𝐄𝐒” SSA Commissioner Frank Bisignano just dropped the numbers on Trump accounts — and they’re exploding. “𝘞𝘦’𝘳𝘦 𝘢𝘣𝘰𝘶𝘵 𝘵𝘰 𝘱𝘪𝘦𝘳𝘤𝘦 𝘢 𝘮𝘪𝘭𝘭𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘣𝘢𝘣𝘪𝘦𝘴 𝘣𝘰𝘳𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘢𝘳𝘦 𝘨𝘰𝘯𝘯𝘢 𝘨𝘦𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘦 $1,000.” Every child born in the next four years gets a $𝟏,𝟎𝟎𝟎 𝐝𝐞𝐩𝐨𝐬𝐢𝐭 into a Trump account. Parents fill out a form, register their child, and the account functions as a savings vehicle until the child turns 18. But it’s not just newborns. “𝘞𝘦 𝘩𝘢𝘷𝘦 𝘰𝘷𝘦𝘳 3 𝘮𝘪𝘭𝘭𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘛𝘳𝘶𝘮𝘱 𝘢𝘤𝘤𝘰𝘶𝘯𝘵𝘴 𝘰𝘱𝘦𝘯𝘦𝘥. 𝘖𝘣𝘷𝘪𝘰𝘶𝘴𝘭𝘺, 𝘐 𝘴𝘢𝘪𝘥 𝘢 𝘮𝘪𝘭𝘭𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘣𝘢𝘣𝘪𝘦𝘴, 𝘣𝘶𝘵 𝘸𝘦 𝘩𝘢𝘷𝘦 𝘰𝘷𝘦𝘳 3 𝘮𝘪𝘭𝘭𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘣𝘦𝘤𝘢𝘶𝘴𝘦 𝘱𝘦𝘰𝘱𝘭𝘦 𝘢𝘳𝘦 𝘰𝘱𝘦𝘯𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘶𝘱 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘪𝘳 𝘤𝘩𝘪𝘭𝘥𝘳𝘦𝘯.” Parents are registering kids of all ages, and major investors like 𝐌𝐢𝐜𝐡𝐚𝐞𝐥 𝐃𝐞𝐥𝐥 are putting money into the system. Bisignano sees it as a new financial instrument entirely: “𝘐𝘵’𝘴 𝘢𝘯𝘰𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘳 𝘧𝘰𝘳𝘮 𝘰𝘧 𝘢𝘯 𝘐𝘙𝘈, 𝘫𝘶𝘴𝘵 𝘢 𝘥𝘪𝘧𝘧𝘦𝘳𝘦𝘯𝘵 𝘤𝘰𝘯𝘤𝘦𝘱𝘵.” He expects financial planners and tax preparers to start educating clients about it — “𝘐 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘬 𝘪𝘵’𝘴 𝘨𝘰𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘵𝘰 𝘣𝘦 𝘦𝘹𝘱𝘭𝘰𝘴𝘪𝘷𝘦.” 𝟑 𝐦𝐢𝐥𝐥𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐚𝐜𝐜𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐭𝐬. 𝐀 𝐦𝐢𝐥𝐥𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐛𝐚𝐛𝐢𝐞𝐬. 𝐀 𝐭𝐡𝐨𝐮𝐬𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐝𝐨𝐥𝐥𝐚𝐫𝐬 𝐞𝐚𝐜𝐡. 𝐀𝐧𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐥𝐞𝐟𝐭 𝐬𝐚𝐢𝐝 𝐢𝐭 𝐰𝐨𝐮𝐥𝐝 𝐧𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐫 𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐤.

🚨 HOLY CRAP! Just like President Trump said, more oil tankers are now moving through the Strait of Hormuz as talks with Iran continue The so called “experts” laughed at him days ago Now it’s happening right in front of them Trump plays chess while they panic Still think he doesn’t have a plan?

USAID money was funneled to an organization that created fake Ukraine and Russiagate evidence against Donald Trump The CIA then worked with the agency to use that evidence in the impeachments against Donald Trump to remove him as President Literally treason “New reporting reveals that USAID and a CIA analyst were behind a project that later led to one of Trump's impeachments independent journalist — USAID effectively created this organization called the Organized Crime and Corruption Research Project Reporting Project — We also know that it did the foundational research that was essential to bringing the impeachment case against Trump in December of 2019. It was what the CIA whistleblower relied upon in his initial complaint in lDecember of 2019 So those are the facts — So this is basically a situation where the CIA person in the White House who've been left over by Obama writes a a complaint describing alleged violation of the law. This was then picked up in the house, impeached Trump, the Senate of course declined to hear it. But I think what's so interesting here is that this is an organization that's behind it that's funded by USAID that would not exist without USAID in what I think you have to consider to be domestic politics, which is absolutely forbidden. — So this looks like regime change tactics that the CIA and USAID had done abroad being brought back home against Donald Trump”

🚨 TRUMP WAS RIGHT, AGAIN! More oil tankers are CRUISING through the Strait of Hormuz right now, exactly like President Trump said would happen during negotiations with Iran. The so-called “experts” laughed and doubted him.

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🚨 REGIME CHANGE — OFFICIAL. Secretary of War Pete Hegseth just confirmed it: “Regime change has occurred” in Iran.

🔻WE TOLD YOU. KHARG ISLAND. 🔻 Less than 24 hours ago, we told you the ground operation was about capturing ledgers. We told you about the vaults under the island. We told you about the $9.7 trillion paper trail. This morning, President Trump announced his intention to seize Kharg Island. Do you understand what is happening? Do you see the script playing out in real time? He is not “considering” it. He is telling you the next move on the board. The media will call it a gaffe. A slip of the tongue. They will say he is escalating. They are lying. This is not an escalation. This is a retrieval. The final piece of evidence required to dismantle the entire globalist network. The server farm hack gave them the map. The island holds the treasure. THEY ARE NOT SEIZING AN OIL TERMINAL. THEY ARE SEIZING THE WORLD’S LARGEST BLACKMAIL FILE. April 6 was the deadline for surrender. Now it is the date of collection. CODE: KHARG-79 / VAULT-OPEN / TRUTH-ACTUAL This is the end of their world. And we showed you the final move before it happened. Pay attention. ♟ 🔻 HE SAID IT. OUT LOUD. KHARG ISLAND. 🔻 This morning we told you they're coming for Kharg Island. Tonight, Trump posted it himself. Word for word. "Completely obliterate Kharg Island." He didn't whisper it in a briefing. He put it on Truth Social for the world to see. The President of the United States just told 8 billion people the target. You don't announce a military strike before you do it. Unless the strike already happened. 💯💯 ⟁ While you read Trump's post — 4 nations formed a new alliance behind closed doors in Islamabad. Pakistan. Saudi Arabia. Turkey. Egypt. 500 million people. One nuclear power. One NATO member. No invitation to Washington. No invitation to Tehran. They're not mediating. They're positioning. The same Pakistan that was supposed to broker peace — Iran just destroyed their oil tanker in the Strait of Hormuz. Missiles. In broad daylight. You attack your own mediator's ship? No. You attack it when the mediation was never real. ⟁ Gold closed at $4,567. A year ago it was $3,100. That's not a market. That's an exit. The old money is moving. Not into stocks. Not into bonds. Into metal they can hold. 💥💥💥 When the system resets — paper burns. Gold doesn't.💥 They know what's coming. That's why they're buying. 🔥 ⟁ Three things happened today that the news won't connect: 👇👇👇 1. Trump publicly named Kharg Island as a target. 2. A 4-nation bloc formed without the US or Iran present. 3. Iran attacked the mediator's ship. One is a threat. Two is a realignment. Three is a trap. Someone is being set up. And it's not Trump. The board is set. The pieces are moving. By Wednesday you won't recognize the map. ⟁ CODE: KHARG-LIVE / BLOC-4 / AU-4567 / APR-2 Pay attention. We showed you the move before it happened. Again. Mr Pool

BREAKING: Huge increase in ship traffic through the Strait of Hormuz today. The regime has lost control. So much for the "we're losing!" crowd. Morons.

Donald Trump’s presidential library will be a 47-story skyscraper on Biscayne Bay — 47 floors for the 47th president. The lobby will house a full-sized Air Force One, fighter jets, helicopters, and a tank. A golden escalator leads to replicas of the Oval Office and the Rose Garden. A gold statue of Trump, fist raised — a permanent tribute to Butler, Pennsylvania. Florida’s Cabinet voted unanimously to donate 2.63 acres of prime Miami waterfront to make it happen. The foundation is raising $1 billion. Private. No taxpayer funding. No president has ever built anything like it — because no president has ever done anything like it.

Billionaire Chamath Palihapitiya explains that once he learned the mainstream media was lying to him, he left the Democrat Party “You went from being a large Democrat donor to now a very outspoken proponent on the other side of the aisle” Chamath Palihapitiya “Yeah — This is not about politics for me, it's about the truth. There was a moment where I was basically like everybody else, and pretty brainwashed. My media diet was very much the same as everybody else's. I read the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal. I watched a little bit of CNN, a little bit of CNBC, a little bit of MSNBC, a little bit of CBS Economist. Every now and then you encounter it on a plane and you think you know what's going on, and I had a perception of Donald Trump initially, from the moment he walked down the staircase in Trump Tower to announce. And then over the course of 6-7 years, I realized that some of those fundamental things that I was told about him were just totally false. And there was enough content online where I was almost afraid, but it started with Charlottesville. I was almost afraid to look at it because I'm like, I think I was lied to. And then I saw it. I saw what he said, but then I saw the portrayal. I had originally believed that portrayal until I saw the truth. And then I just started to go down that rabbit hole. So for me, it was an evolution where I was like, I can't believe I'm being lied to by this group of people whose sole responsibility is to hold truth, to power. The key word there is truth to power, not your perception or your desires. And I just think that that, that, I mean, red-pilled me, I guess in a way”

EVERYONE LAUGHED WHEN PRESIDENT TRUMP SAID HE WANTED GREENLAND. NOBODY IS LAUGHING NOW. HERE'S THE REAL REASON. It was never about the ice. It was never about the 60,000 people who live there. It was never even really about the rare earth minerals. It was about something most people have never heard of. It's called the GIUK Gap. Greenland. Iceland. United Kingdom. A naval chokepoint that sits between the Arctic Ocean and the North Atlantic — the passage through which any ship, any submarine, any military vessel traveling from the Arctic to the rest of the world must pass. Whoever controls Greenland controls that gap. And whoever controls that gap controls the future of global shipping. Here's why that matters right now. The Arctic is melting. Fast. Arctic sea ice is declining 13% every decade. The Arctic shipping route which runs from Asia to Europe through the Arctic Ocean is 40% shorter than the Suez Canal route. 30% faster in transit time. By 2030, that route is projected to increase trade volumes between Asia and Europe by 5% to 10%. Researchers estimate that by 2030, up to 4.7% of all world trade roughly two thirds of the current Suez Canal traffic, could be rerouted through the Arctic. Think about what that means. The Suez Canal, the busiest shipping lane on earth...carved in the 1860s, could lose two thirds of its traffic to a route that barely existed a decade ago. And Greenland sits directly at the entrance to that route. China already declared itself a "near-Arctic state" in 2018. Russia controls over half of the Arctic Ocean coastline and has been building military and commercial Arctic infrastructure for years. Russia's cargo traffic on the Northern Sea Route grew almost fivefold between 2014 and 2020. They are targeting 193 million tons of Arctic cargo by 2030. Trump watched all of this. And decided America needed to own the chokepoint — not just access it. Is he right? Harvard's Belfer Center called Greenland "the geostrategic linchpin connecting the Arctic, North America, and Europe." War on the Rocks, a foreign policy journal wrote: "Trump's emphasis on ownership may be misplaced. But his assessment that Greenland is a strategically critical territory is correct." My rich dad taught me something about assets that I never forgot. He said: "The best time to buy an asset is before the world realizes what it's worth." In 1867, the US bought Alaska for $7.2 million. Every analyst at the time called it "Seward's Folly." Today, Alaska produces 500,000 barrels of oil per day and controls the Pacific's strategic northern flank. Trump isn't crazy. He's just early. The question my rich dad would be asking right now is not: "Can the US take Greenland?" It's: "Who else is already positioning there — and what does it cost you if they get there first?" Robert Kiyosaki