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MACDONALD: Tax Tyranny

September 30, 2025 Steve MacDonald

California, New York, and to some degree, New Jersey, Massachusetts, and Pennsylvania all have state exit taxes. When you’ve had it up to here, they make sure to get another piece of you before you try to take your economic toys and find a new home. These apply to high-value sales and high earners, and … Read more

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MacDonald: Free Speech Brute Force Diplomacy

May 31, 2025 Steve MacDonald

We should have seen this coming. A mere 25 days after the Inauguration, Vice President JD Vance went to Munich to convey a few key messages. Things that made some in the EU cry. To ensure freedom, Western “democracies” needed to protect free and open public discourse, and the EU is “disappointing” history. Vance spoke … Read more

EU’s Protectionist Policies Have Been in Place Long Before Trump

April 17, 2025 Kevin M. Spivak

In March of 2025, President Donald Trump imposed a 25% tariff on imports of steel, aluminum, automobiles, and certain automobile parts. European Union (E.U.) members, except Hungary, announced retaliatory tariffs of 10% to 25% on specific U.S. imports. On April 2, Trump proclaimed, “Liberation Day” and added a global baseline tariff of 10%, plus customized … Read more

The Erosion of Democracy in Europe and the Looming Shift Toward Islamic Influence

April 9, 2025 Amil Imani

As of April 2025, a troubling pattern has emerged across Europe and beyond, casting a shadow over the principles of democratic governance. The suppression of political opposition, exemplified by recent events involving figures like Marine Le Pen in France and the ongoing efforts to ban Germany’s Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) party, suggests that democracy—once a cornerstone of … Read more

EU Tariffs and Sweeping Climate Directives Threaten Global Trade

April 8, 2025 John Klar

Regulatory pincers, foreign and domestic. The European Union (EU) is facing off with the United States over tariffs, war with Russia, and increased regulations governing corporations doing business on the continent. Some claim globalist NGOs exert undue influence over modern Europe through the union: Pending laws that seek to impose environmental and social rules on … Read more

Why CAN’T You Deal With Ukraine Yourselves?

March 19, 2025 Skip

Both stress and big flashlights can show reality to those who are living in another world and dimension. In this case, it is the Euro weenies who are all about continuing the Never-Ending-Ukranian War – even as they’ll only fight if the US is involved: “500M Europeans Are Begging 300M Americans for Protection from 140M … Read more

Dodging One Bullet, Does Not End The War [On Free Speech]

March 6, 2025March 6, 2025 Steve MacDonald

Tomorrow night’s episode of GrokTALK! features guest Elisabeth Sabaditsch-Wolff, author of Truth Was My Crime. She is a victim of the European war on free speech. We will discuss her book, her experience with governments destroying you for speaking truth, as well as what has and has not changed since Donald Trump won last November. I … Read more

Zelensky Fs Around And Finds Out

March 2, 2025 Steve MacDonald

My initial gut feelings appear to have legs – that the endless war in Ukraine folks bent Voldomyr’s ears pre-oval office meeting and convinced him to press his case in front of the world. I’m quite sure his fanciful overestimation of his strength and the U.S. support for him was due to people like Antony … Read more

Will Ukranians Pay for Dems Trump Derangement Syndrome?

May 30, 2025March 1, 2025 Steve MacDonald

They Can’t Stand To See Him Win Upon hearing the news of Voldemort Zelenskyy’s tiff in the oval, my first thought was who told him to do it. By all accounts, the diplomatic process had secured a minerals agreement and a stepping stone toward peace. Russia would have to give back some of Ukraine in … Read more

Trump Cannot Allow a Declining Europe to Drag the US Down

May 29, 2025February 22, 2025 Connor O'Keeffe

Last week, leaders of European governments got very upset with the new Trump administration. First, Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth said a return to pre-2014 Ukraine-Russia borders was an “unrealistic objective” in the coming peace negotiations and that European leaders shouldn’t assume American troops would be present on the continent forever. Then, Vice President JD Vance gave … Read more

WEF “Stakeholders” Seek to Hold all the Steaks!

February 15, 2025February 15, 2025 John Klar

The WEF has picked up the UN globalization batons and populated the stakeholder table not with “member nations” but “partner corporations” to affect its hellish hierarchy, aping population growth fears and targeting food as “currently responsible for up to one-third of global greenhouse gas emissions, 70% of all freshwater withdrawals, and … the main driver … Read more

Doubling Down on Stagnation at Davos

February 9, 2025February 8, 2025 Daniel Lacalle

Many market participants appeared astonished to learn that Von Der Leyen and Scholz in Davos were steadfastly pursuing the policies that have severely damaged the EU. However, this is typical bureaucratic behavior. In a predictable move, EU bureaucrats have chosen to exploit the new Trump administration as an external enemy, rather than seizing the opportunity to unleash the immense potential of their economies. … Read more

A Response to Steve – Methinks You May Be Wrong?

June 13, 2024 Skip

Steve had this post, “Night Cap: Did The EU Just Make the Net-Zero Transition Illegal” in which the CURRENT EU head honchos passed this resolution:

Night Cap: Did The EU Just Make the Net-Zero Transition Illegal?

June 10, 2024 Steve MacDonald

The European Union’s (EU) cabal of meddling ministers has passed a resolution “requiring firms and their upstream and downstream partners, including supply, production and distribution, to prevent, end or mitigate their adverse impact on human rights and the environment.”

Saying The Quiet Part About This Utopian Green Energy Transition Out Loud

December 12, 2023 Op-Ed

One of the ongoing tensions embedded throughout the years of efforts by mainly Western governments to subsidize their desired energy transition into existence has been the tension between these desires of the ruling class versus the demands of the global energy market.

EU Will Need Pigs to “Fly” to Reach Climate Goals

June 4, 2023 Steve MacDonald

People who know how to get elected continue demonstrating how ill-equipped they are to lead. Take the European Union, for example. They are committed to destroying modernity for what amounts to nothing. But pigs will fly before they discover how badly they’ve botched it. I’m serious about the pigs.

Plandemic- Warp Speed Was a Lie: Pfizer Had Its First Spike Protein Vaccine Patent for Coronavirus Over Thirty Years Ago

May 28, 2023 Steve MacDonald

You’ll have heard of Dr. David E Martin. He became famous to most of us for exposing the lies behind the pandemic, beginning in the Plandemic movies. Dr. Martin is one of the Flutopian’s worst nightmares. He’s smart, and he arrives not with just bad news but receipts.

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The EU and Japan have a Nuke Energy Pact To Save The Climate – Radical Greenie Heads Exploding!

March 1, 2023 Skip

Former Clamshell Alliance Seabrook Nuclear Station Protester (and now the Federal Government Overlord for NH) Jeanne Shaheen is trying desperately trying to conjure up a caldron of spells to reverse this Japan/EU NukeExpansion project.

Impossible Meat Problem “If It’s Patented, It Can’t Be Natural, and If It’s Natural, It Can’t Be Patented”

February 7, 2023 Steve MacDonald

Impossible foods are having an impossible week in the impossible EU over their Impossible burger. The European Patent Office (EPO) has revoked the Impossible patent.

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You Will Be Made to Pay for an Energy Transition That Doesn’t Work, Isn’t Green, and That You Do Not Want.

December 27, 2022 Steve MacDonald

As Europe fights to keep warm this winter, going so far as to burn coal to keep the lights on, the reached from reality EU bureaucrats approved a new carbon tax on the old energy (heating and motor fuels), part of which will fund conversions to the new energy that isn’t working.