Right after Mr. Kloucek did this video, it got some traffic. The pundit really doesn’t know my cuz Frank when he said something like ‘Red State Farmers turning their backs on Trump’. Frank has never been a Republican and never will be, he is just calling spades.
The DNC recruited some farmers in SD to bring up the issue of tariffs, I might know a couple of them 🙂
For at least 5 minutes in April of 1987 he was right;
So this video posted 6 months ago. Recently the Canadians used some lines from it in a TV ad over the trade war. The Supreme Court will decide soon whether Trump’s tariffs were legal without congressional approval. I’m with Reagan on what he is talking about (watch the entire video) he basically doesn’t like them and thinks they contributed to the Great Depression. Reagan was an economics major in college. Reagan supported targeted tariffs, as do I, to get American consumers to buy American products, so you would target that specific product with a tariff instead of a blanket one with every product from a specific country like Trump is doing. Reagan was referencing this in the video with semi-conductors. He wanted American manufacturing to buy American conductors instead of cheaper Japanese ones.
As for the Reagan foundation saying they didn’t get permission to use the clip, that point is moot, it is a public document, anybody can use it, even a foreign government. Also, there was NO creative editing in the AD, they just simply played a few lines from the address about the pertinent dangers of tariffs, like isolationism, inflation and high unemployment (it’s coming folks!)
EAST WING WENT BYE BYE
I love how Trump’s Press Secretary is tasked each day with revisionist history. They are claiming Truman’s remodel of the White House was no different then this. Hogwash. Truman was going to take a leak in the middle of the night and he heard a crack under the floorboards in his bedroom. They discovered that after adding the 3rd floor without reinforcing floors 1 & 2 caused the floor beams to start cracking and breaking. Truman had no choice but to remodel or the place was going to fall into itself. There was the controversy of adding the balcony, but it wasn’t a gold plated ballroom double the size of the current white house. I have said that the next president needs to undo all of this in the last year of their first term. I would auction off the ballroom in pieces, make the buyers responsible for removal and take the money raised to rebuild the East Wing to original standards but modernized. I would also restore the rose garden. Trump has done enough damage to this country and it’s reputation we don’t need any reminders of him after he has left the Whitehouse.
I think in Germany after WWII they have some law where you can’t talk about Hitler or Nazis or something. . . just an idea.
Years ago a good friend who is about 4 years younger then our president told me a joke. He says, “You know what the difference between an old man and a dirty old man is? . . . . An old man has memories, a dirty old man has plans.” This describes our prezzo perfectly. Most 80 year old politicians are only trying to create a legacy, this guy is looking for world dominance. Seems like a strange thing to want when you wear diapers and decorate the Whitehouse like an Old West whore house.
Speaking of the Orange Menace, I found his manure spreader fighter jet video humorous. I said, “He is finally telling us what he really thinks of us.” It was like he was playing a joke on himself and didn’t realize it. I think a counter video should of been made so when he hits the drop bottom a giant turd explodes in his face and the airplane drops a load on the Kremlin.
Old Detroit Lewis has been down the appointment path many times. I even applied once to be appointed to the Minnehaha County Commission, and then Chair Cindy Heiberger said she was offended that I came to the public input portion of a meeting to give my resume in advance of the nomination process. Yeah, she was a real peach. She makes Councilor Erpenbach look like Mary Poppens.
Or when Dean Karsky was appointed to the City Council and when he actually ran for the seat he put on his signs ‘RE-ELECT’ Karsky. I think I asked him how can you be re-elected when you were never elected to begin with? He gave me his insurance salesman look of I either ‘I sharted or lied’. It was usually a Shlart (C).
This whole appointment process is pure hypocrisy when you consider we have to have a runoff for council races instead of a plurality.
I digress.
Recently, Councilor Dr. Cole announced she is moving for her job. Good for her, but no surprise. I warned everyone before the election that Brekke was retired and had the time to dedicate to the council position while Cole had a lot of commitments with her employer as a medical doctor and being a single mother and would not have the time to dedicate to the position. I was 100% correct. I even predicted she would not make it to the end of her term. I was 100% correct. City government is sooo predictable. Well no one listened so now here we are, we need to appoint someone to fill out Councilor Dr. Cole’s seat after she leaves town in December. The stint would be a simple 6-7 months (I know, South Park reference). Four councilors have confirmed they want to appoint someone who is not running for council in 2026 and simply want a placeholder until the next election. They also have expressed appointing a former councilor who would be willing to help out for a few months without the intention of running, which I totally support. The short list would be;
• Brekke
• Stehly
• Neitzert
Yeah, there is the vampire guy, but c’mon!?
I have suggested Brekke or Neitzert and Neitzert confirmed to me to today that he would ‘think about it’. He thought having a former councilor with no desire to run would be a good fit. Greg also had some biking initiatives he was working on when he left council that he could finish (many of the projects are already funded). But if I wanted to be a rabble rouser I would appoint Bob Kolbe. And don’t laugh, he has the experience and would run circles around the current dais.
COMPOST PILOT
I guess the City of Brookings, which oddly has a progressive community and a conservative local government has started a compost program, I have suggested to two councilors we look into this PILOT program in Sux. I guess food waste takes up 25% of the landfill and produces most of the methane gas. So it is kind of a double edged sword for us to have residents compost when we sell methane gas to POET which helps to self-fund and expand and improve the landfill. I compost as much as I can and have several bins outside. What is great is after about a year you pull from the bottom and the black fertile stuff that comes out is pure fertilizer gold.
I AM AWARE
I want to thank my diligent foot soldiers for the messages this week about a certain someone running for a certain office. I am aware and have been 🙂 all week.
NO FAUX-KING FASCISTS! – That was my favorite sign I saw at the protest today;
There was a small number of protest protesters.
When I took the photo a gentleman from the group asked if I would take them down Phillips in front of the protesters with flags. This guy was incredibly respectful and likely a veteran and he did say to me that I probably didn’t want to get into the political back and forth. I said, yeah, I had a No Kings protester ask to ride down the street with a signs, and told them no. That would send the wrong message and he was totally cool. I really appreciated that. And while there was close to 2-3K NO kings protesters or more, there was about 20 MAGA supporters.
IMAGE: Patrick Lalley
I enjoyed the peaceful interaction and commend both groups even though the SFPD and Feds tried to start a fake controversy about a stolen van with likely a joint laying on the floor into some conspiracy about Oklahoma City. What a f’kd up world we live in.
RANDOM FUNNY
As I was riding around the protest tonight a mom and her children were storming down the sidewalk in front of the wine shop just north of Minerva’s. They have this metal sandwich board sign in front of the wine shop and the boy totally smoked it. He was probably around eight? And had no mobile devices in his hand. Not only was I laughing, everyone who saw it was dying. The boy was fine and guessing by his red face, not forgetting this moment for awhile, but I have a point at his expense; They were obviously going to the protest and in a hurry, which is awesome. There were tons of families and kids and I even saw some grandparents taking a todler to the protest with her own handmade sign. A portrait of patriotism (they were likely in there 70’s or 80’s).
That is why it is so laughable and ridiculous that these supposed anti-american protesters are somehow violent?! (maybe to sandwich boards?).
No body is buying the bullshi!t. Trust me when you have 3000+ peeps on one street corner and 30 peeps from the opposition on the other street corner it sends a clear faux-king message!
It wasn’t a business decision to not allow protesters from either side to ride the Rick, it was a mortality decision, and how faux-king sad is that?! I don’t recognize this country anymore.
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