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- September 7, 2025: “Why wait until 2028? The 2026 midterms are going to the courts.” As I wrote months ago, no Kanye or Kardashian etc. visits to White House this time, no attempts at minority/youth outreach/appeal = They really obviously DO NOT CARE anymore. Given the FAST-CRUMBLING economy, the overdone deportations & the Pro Wrestling-worthy “war on cities”, and generally the “Fox News core audience only” appeal… and then, seeing how “off-year” (Virginia, etc.) elections go THIS November… Mussolini & Co. will look at the score, and they will have NO CHOICE, they will HAVE TO start some funny-business with the 2026 election… and how that will look, I have no idea, but we COULD be talking about making plans (WELL IN ADVANCE) for Pete Hegseth’s federalized National Guard to muscle in and take over the vote count in Democrat areas, or something wild like that. GUARANTEED, they will be turning the dial so far to the right that it breaks off, then start smashing the spindle with a sledgehammer. As with any “such crowd” throughout modern history, they have no choice because they have done so many nasty things to too many people, and thus they cannot willingly cede power, as they would all get taken apart after leaving.
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Speaking of “overdone deportations”, the optics of this heavy-handed immigration raid at a Hyundai plant in Georgia is especially hilarious. South Korea’s media will have a field day with this:
https://apnews.com/article/us-south-korea-ice-raid-georgia-hyundai-ee8781d965c74a5ee18525ce87959ba4
Great way to keep all that inward investment into the US flowing, LOL.
LoL.
For me, the raid strikes home quite a lot. Back in the 2000 period I worked as a consultant on assignment overseas in one country (not the US) for around two years, albeit traveling home every few weeks. None of us in the team had work visas. This was fairly common back then and immigration authorities in many places turned a blind eye, given that it ought to have been obvious what was happening with constant border entries. There is also a genuine grey area too over what constitutes legitimate business travel versus “work” but to call what we were doing “business travel” would be a mega stretch! Now I reflect on it, I could well have ended up in shackles like those South Koreans.
I do wonder what the full context is here. I recall Jacob pointing out that ICE raids on meat packing plants were scaled back after the industry pointed out that the food supply (and I guess political donations…) might dry up. Looking things up, it does seem that this is what happened with a couple of large workplace raids in June but none I can find since.
Why target Hyundai and why do it in such a heavy handed way? Just as I was, these South Koreans were there because of their employer. Is a foreign company simply an “easy” target and makes good news reporting?
The only reason I can think of this is just outright hubris, they want even more from the countries they just strong-armed to “invest” in the USA. Not only must you build factories, but you must somehow make sure it’s completely a native American endeavor, so that there will be good PR.
This is of course a fanciful thought. Presumably there’s proprietary industrial development processes, SOPs etc.. that are “native” to S Korea, that took years to train and inculcate at the mothership back in Seoul. Would be near impossible to get a US team to replicate that in mere months, if at all ever.
To this day, oil and gas projects in Saudi Arabia/Qatar are principally run by Westerners. Lots of great articles and stories about the struggles of TMC trying to start a chip factory in Arizona. Couldn’t get the Americans to work GLEEFULLY work 16 hour days nonstop like the Taiwanese do (who had been already professionally immersed in chimp making their whole adult lives to begin with. I imagine some element of this cultural/technical gap exists with whatever the Koreans were trying to build.
Again, my only conclusion is that people truly believe that they can both throw red meat at the base with “immigration enforcement” and also that Korea will forever come back begging for more.
“Hubris” is a good word. I might be misquoting but “exhilaration” sticks in my mind too from previous analysis in this blog. It’s similar from an emotional perspective to blowing up alleged “drug boats” and imposing sudden tariffs. A way to show power and have an object of hate. It’s not so unlike 1930s German politics either, I guess. It’s a slippery road too.
More rationally, you are likely right with respect to SOPs and the same issue would apply in whatever country the factory were built. Americans are no less capable intrinsically than other peoples, LOL. But no one in the media that I could find has chosen to discuss points like this. There is some reporting on Korean domestic reactions but it is all couched in the emotional way that passes for debate these days.
Best president North Korea could have afforeded hahaha
Is the whole world going back to Banana Republic status before the end of this decade?
I am close with someone pretty high up in a major oil company. Says big layoffs are coming, and that from his perspective, the projections he’s dealing with are that things are going to get much, much worse.
Fun times!