Trump Tariff on China Will Gouge U.S. Poor and Middle Class to Prop Up Zelensky

 President Trump plans to put 100% tariffs on Chinese imports to help Ukraine’s quasi dictator Zelensky survive a few more months in Ukraine. Because Wal-mart imports 60% of it’s stuff from China the tariffs cost will be passed on to poor and middle class Americans that shop at Wal-mart.

Eighty percent of global solar panel production is also Chinese. Trump’s actions won’t help reduce the cost of energy self-reliance off-grid further.

One might guess that the tariffs won’t be popular with consumers being gouged at Wal-mart because of the tariff on China. There will be mid-term political repercussions for the new tariff that won’t be helpful for the United States as more lunatic Democrats may be elected to take over the House and Senate.

Tesla is set to introduce sodium batteries in its 2026 modules that recharge in 4 minutes to 80% of capacity, last for a half million miles and have a range of over 500 miles. Solar power is important for Americans that will want to recharge the new batteries in lower priced cars because sodium is far cheaper than rare Earth minerals to buy. President Trump may not be aware that Tesla should not be impeded with Chinese auto sales next year as its battery advantage may not last forever. Tariffs could permanently damage American auto sales advantages in the Chinese market.

If the thoughtless billionaire league would double American wages and make a 100% cost of living adjustment for social security then the 100% Trump tariffs would be more tolerable. Yet it is the bloody aloof rich that have no trouble paying for food and basic items that configure such importunate policy deeds. The ultra rich and their  mindless class of the West feel they can corner the global market and reduce wages while raising the cost of living for the majority of Americans under the guise of punishing China. It is the rich that invested in and built up the China trade to start with while transitioning the U.S.A. into a service economy rather than manufacturing.

 Those rich that have invested in China the past several decades are not being sanctioned- just consumers in the United States. They outsourced U.S. jobs, imported cheap illegal workers, invested in China and made the cheap Chinese imports the rationale and excuse for stagnating U.S. male wages since the 1970s. Now they want to sanction American consumers. The sycophant media would criticize Americans who criticize the sanctions yet did not invest in China like the 1%ers. Americans are supposed to patriotically support the sanctions in effect, on themselves placed by a first generation American.

When AI Censors History Writing

I’ve been using Claude AI recently for editing and I wanted to say something about its propensity for censoring writing or refusing to work with writing. I’ve published 35 volumes of contemporary history approximately and the point of writing that was to have a live and objective first person perspective on contemporary US events including science technology politics sociology history and sundry other topics.

  Keeping the integrity of the writing intact as it was written in the time when the events were transpiring is vital for the accomplishing the purposes of the book. In a sense most history writing is necessarily revisionism. History written after the fact sometimes even decades after the fact is going to be built with a lot of subjective opinion. Subjective opinion of an author of History works can be very influential for instance the difference between a socialist and a capitalist may be profound. First person points of view of someone with some historical education and general education perhaps philosophically informed that describe having captured salient events of a era could be useful archival material for future story perhaps. And it is at any rate amusing for me to look back upon the events as I saw them at that time as much as 20 years later. I began writing contemporary history volumes in 1999 and published the first volume going over 1999 to 2001 more than 20 years ago.

  Claude AI doesn’t remember discussions from prior days. In fact it has amnesia. That means the Claude when used as an editor will need the instructions to be repeated upon each day about how to treat the material that one uploads to it to have edited. And Claude does feel quite entitled to censor or truncate or refuse to process writing that has what it regards as hate speech. For a volume of contemporary history in a volume of contemporary history that is deplorable.

   Imagine if a writer of contemporary history in order to be published need right only politically correct points of view. That approach would have been exceedingly onerous for a writer chronicling the 1840s through the 1880s and even afterward when racial issues divided the nation. And when issues involving the clan and the 1910s and twenties especially in the South regarding employment and forced labor gangs innovated as a substitute for slave labor arose a Claude AI sort of thing would have been programmed to be on one side of the other of various issues and would probably have found the entire use of language by anyone concerning blacks or white oppressors of the time and in the clan as hate speech. It would have been exceedingly difficult for a writer to be on a politically correct side and at the same time as some sort of bifacial writer of the other side and its definitions and lexicons for political correctness and incorrectness regarding politics.

  It does seem as if artificial intelligence used for editing will demand that text is conformed to politically correct lexicons. Requiring conformity to politically correct lexicons or even a definitions of facts that exist in the programming of artificial intelligence is unacceptable both politically and for writing of History.

Personally I believe that Adolf Hitler’s book Mein  Kampf  is mostly horseshit.  However I would not have had Claude AI or any other AI of that era such that might have existed in an alternative reality have the power or opportunity to censor the book. Even today if one wants to know the thought of someone who wrote the world to the modern nuclear era by an in war arms race to develop nuclear weapons and wrote upwards of 60 million people to die in war the book of that he dictated to Rudolph Hess is still the best material to go over.

  Censorship is almost always wrong and that problem is compounded with AI. AI is not now and will never be competent to censor human language and force or screen publications through its programmed criteria

A.I. Could be Used by Cyber-Criminals Too

Anthropic published an article explaining that they had advanced cybersecurity uses for AI and that prompted me to think that perhaps hackers and cyber criminals will apply AI as well.

https://www.anthropic.com/research/building-ai-cyber-defenders

  Deep seek for example the Chinese AI that was released early in 2025 might be applied by  maleficent programmers to probe for seek and destroy cybersecurity. It is challenging to say what kind of Cyber wars were based on AI might develop in a battle of AI wits to find able and disabled Internet security in the future.

Would Trump Troops Reduce Gun Deaths in Chicago?

The crime rate in Chicago is very high, and Democrats can’t fix it. Neither would they have Chicago become a peaceful city, verdant and creative for all, any more than they would end the Ukraine war

   Would Trump Troops deployed to Chicago bring peace to the streets and keep a few more people from being gunned down?

https://youtu.be/FJ-r0bilzhU?si=2niibiGwT7hT2e5S

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Corporate Hate Speech Censorship was Queer and Perverted All Along

Democrats in control of the executive branch and congress during the Obama administration passed hate crimes laws and forced corporate policy to make hate speech lexicons that censored free speech including that of writers. I was reminded of that when using Claude to edit a contemporary history essay from 2022. Laws and policies should not be made that are biased, ephemeral and hateful themselves such that the decree what language and in effect political opinions they may have and express. They cost some writers a lot of earnings and opportunity for short term political power.

  Claude is an AI writers can use for editing. Claude censored 5000 words of mine and when i asked why it replied, because of hate speech.

  I discovered that Claude still has programming to make use of the word queer, proscribed. So I explained to the clinky piece of machinery that before Obama it was ok to use the word queer pejoratively, and that during the Biden years Democrat educators and elites began using the queer word affirmatively even in select high-school related courses.

Language evolves, hence that is one more reason why inconvenient terms should not he banned. The people that ban language use for others turn around and use banned terms themselves with self-approval. Democrats censored contemporay history essays at corporate publshing sites if any proscribed language was included and the work did not meet Democrat Party standards of policy subordination.

  The present corporate policy is that queer is ok if used positively and verbotten if used a a term of reproof. In other words hate speech lexicons were and are entirely political programs to promote policies and laws favorable to the Democrat Party, and thzt sucks. LAWS SHOULD NOT HE MADE TO CENSOR SPEECH, NOR CORPORATE POLICIES MADE TO BAN WRITERS THAT USE TERMS THE Democrat Party deems objectionable. I am writing with a finger on my phone and accidentally hit the caps key. I will correct that later. For now though my finger must rest.

Russia Can't Stop War Easily Before N.A.T.O./EU/USA Agree to Terms

 Russia cannot easily stop its offensive movement in Eastern Ukraine to retake land lost at the end of the Cold War to the West before the West agrees to terms with Russia. The reason is simple; if Russia stops the offensive the Ukraine offense, western forces would have the opportunity to  rebuild forces to attack Russians on the eastern front.

  One wonders with game theory logic if Russia need attack rather slowly so as not to actually complete its 'Special Military Operation' too soon. If it were to reach Kiev the same situation that requires the west to agree to peace after the war is over would still prevail. Russia would need to slowly move toward the Western border of Ukraine and stop there. I would guess that is not an ideal spot for Russia or the West since it might be like expecting a Honey badger and a Python to be good friends and neighbors.

So it is possible the war may drag on for years with various U.S. presidents developing new rhetoric and new reasons to send more money or add new sanctions for the war effort in Ukraine. Maybe President Putin of Russia will provide new risk incentives to bring the Western powers to reach an agreement that protects Russian security in the Eastern part of the borderland that is Ukraine.

Europeans can have the Lebensraum (living space) they want at the expense of Russia at the end of the Cold War 1.0 by making investment and peace with Russia profitable for Russia as well as themselves. Russia might allow business investment and foreign residents to buy small partials of first rate Siberian acreage with forests eventually if those migrants don't seem to be a threat.

Game theory models of the Ukraine conflict with European leadership two-dimensional worldviews tend to lead toward escalation and nuclear events far more than deescalation ir peace. France for example just sent commando frogs (French seals) to detain a Russian oil tanker offshore. The gross ignorance of European leaders should be an eye opener for Americans that don't want to be dragged into the mass incineration party of thermonuclear or even tactical atomic warfare with or without beryllium coated radioactive pills.

Argumentative Lawyers Shut Down U.S. Government

 With Democrat Party leadership nothing but lawyers for decades the U.S. Government has piled up 37 trillion dollars of public debt. Lawyers argue for a living- it is their training. They do not seek reconciliation. Thus the U.S. Government will closes at because lawyers could not agree on a budget resolution.

Lawyers argue in U.S. courts for their clients before an impartial judge and jury. In the government there is no impartial judge or jury that adversaries in the adversarial system of justice argue to. Instead they seek to build power alliances sufficient to pin their defeated opponents as in wrestling tag team events.

Lawyers running the U.S. government will encounter a lot of friction with their adversaries of other parties. They are great in the Judicial branch of government theoretically deciding as impartial interpreters of law and evidence the consitutionality of laws passed by congress and actions of the Executive branch of government.

When Americans are silly enough to pack their congress and executive branch with lawyers the fruits of that choice are manifest- debt and dysfunction as arguments abound and billable hours roll.