We've seen this happening on several quarterly reports so far. Real Wage growth was at 1.4% by the end of 2025. As I said, you can complain that it's not at the pace you want. But the fact that there's been almost zero real wage growth in 40 years, means that this is a major turnound in the policy of intentionally depressing American wages. That would be the adult conversation here.
The current rate of deportations will not change the long term demographics of the US, making them only useful in the short term.
For the first time since The Great Recession there is a migration outflow in the US. Again, this is not "zero progress", this a complete undoing of what every president has done for decades.
There are many simple, easy, effective measures to eject illegals, but the administration is not doing them.
There are no easy steps when the Leftists are determined to stop all of them to stay in power. They are currently trying to incite a Civil War in order to deflect from the discovery of their fraud system. Everything else has been met with direct obstruction, to lawfare, to political assassination.
Your complaint is still that the pace isn't what you want. Not that no progress has been made. The right, like always, is deathly determined to seize defeat from the jaws of victory.
The mental illness of the left is delusion. The mental illness of the right is defeatism.
We've seen this happening on several quarterly reports so far. Real Wage growth was at 1.4% by the end of 2025. As I said, you can complain that it's not at the pace you want. But the fact that there's been almost zero real wage growth in 40 years, means that this is a major turnound in the policy of intentionally depressing American wages. That would be the adult conversation here.
Inflation handily outpaces that growth, even at Trumpflation levels, so the average American worker will simply lose a little less, not gain anything. edit: I misunderstood what you wrote. Yes, there is slight real wage growth when compared to CPI. Yet inflation in many necessary categories is well above CPI, and my other criticisms hold. This is not a transformative achievement, but only the beginning of something - if the trend continues.
If workers can even stay employed, anyway, with the premier American industry (tech) busy shipping jobs off to India, replacing continental jobs with Indians, and trying their hardest to replace everything else with AI.
For the first time since The Great Recession there is a migration outflow in the US. Again, this is not "zero progress", this a complete undoing of what every president has done for decades.
For the first time, American white high school seniors are a minority at 49%. The pace of the outflow is too slow to make a difference, especially when natural born citizenship, chain migration, H-1B scabbing, passes for agriculture/hospitality, and all the other policies that made this a huge problem are still in place.
Yes, the most important metric is the proportion of American whites. Non-white American "citizens" are also a problem, not just migrants.
There are no easy steps when the Leftists are determined to stop all of them to stay in power. They are currently trying to incite a Civil War in order to deflect from the discovery of their fraud system.
And the administration is not taking any strong action against them.
Your complaint is still that the pace isn't what you want. Not that no progress has been made.
I didn't say "no progress." My title stated "barely any progress." You restated what I said.
For our purposes here I'm using the colloquial definition of Deflation and Inflation as "price raises/falls". Deflation has actually been measured in a couple of industries. Small amounts, but it shows that the admin took a hammer to the problem of inflation. Some goods and services will still experience some inflation depending on the combination of tariffs, global instability, steady regulation, and government spending. Overall, the trend is in the right direction. Our system is a Keynsian Socialist one so nominal price drops would require true deflation, which is not tolerated for any significant length of time. Hence why the admin is trying to "grow out of the problem" by working towards a 5% GDP. As you say, if the trend continues, but the groundwork has been clearly done.
Tech is not the only industry we have, and it seems clear that the admin is desperate to improve manufacturing. Tech is not shipping off jobs to India because full Indian development is poor. They are contracting with vendors in India, or otherwise pulling in H1B's. The admin's record on this is confused, and clearly has different factions pulling in different directions. Sometimes they say they are desperate for H1B's, and sometimes they are explicitly shutting down the pipeline. AI can not, and will not, replace jobs that aren't already irrelevant. It will only improve efficiency. Companies that try that method will be very quickly fail due to their inability to make anything competently.
American whites are a minority mostly because of American whites of the millennials and X'ers going through childlessness. Most of that is going to be related to social factors, rather than through material conditions. It doesn't help that American Whites happen to have maxed out on their support for the right at about 65%, and the rest are some of the most hardened Leftists alive. Defeating the Left culturally is the cure for that, and will take more than any administration can accomplish. I was explicitly vitriolic on this very forum over the fact that some people thought the culture war had ended just because Trump won in 2024. I maintain that all we've done is taken Mount Suribachi, and we will spend the next 40 years seizing the airfields and clearing the bunkers.
Yes, the most important metric is the proportion of American whites. Non-white American "citizens" are also a problem, not just migrants.
Not so much. Some of them absolutely are (like almost anyone who became a citizen under Biden), but the reason Trump won is because of his broad demographic coalition of support. Damn near half the people in ICE are Hispanic, for example. There is no further white support available to the right, and that was at a time where Trump was winning over the Lolbertarians (who are almost exclusively white). Trump's most hardline supporters, ethnographically, come from people self-identifying as "American". Among American Whites, his worst preforming ethnic group is "English". As the 1970's radicals have aged, they have taken their politics with them into the next age group, and so Trump is basically losing Seniors and Super Seniors because they've been more Leftist their whole lives. Even among Zoomers and Gen Alpha, only 35% or so self-identify as right-wing. That shows a major political shift in the demographic towards the right, but it's not a right-wing generation.
That 49% of American White Highschool seniors are mostly unironic Harris & Mamdani supporters
And the administration is not taking any strong action against them.
At the moment, caution is required. The reason they want a conflict is to rally themselves. This is a replay of 2020 and I'm not going to make the same mistake I did then: the violence unifies the Left. They are going into the midterms divided, and are astroturfing & demoralizing the right to gain an edge. Political violence, even among the Left is unifying. Rioting in Minneapolis solidifies support among Leftists.
The Insurrection Act may or may not be a good idea. What is needed is a seizure of the the Governor & Mayor for criminal charges, and RICO prosecutions, which is currently being worked on with a deputy AG. I'm praying to baby Jesus that this AG can get around Pam Blondie and her clearly terminal inaction and ignorance outside of Fox News appearances.
I didn't say "no progress." My title stated "barely any progress." You restated what I said.
That was my mistake. I've heard that argument from far too many people who should know better, and I assumed it was yours too. My mistake, I apologize.
Hence why the admin is trying to "grow out of the problem" by working towards a 5% GDP.
With the current economic strategy, most Americans won't even feel like we have 5% GDP growth even if we get there.
Tech is not shipping off jobs to India because full Indian development is poor. They are contracting with vendors in India, or otherwise pulling in H1B's. The admin's record on this is confused, and clearly has different factions pulling in different directions. Sometimes they say they are desperate for H1B's, and sometimes they are explicitly shutting down the pipeline.
Yes, as I said, Indian CEOs are shipping American jobs off to India and Indians. The administration is only interested in paying lip service to solving this problem. If they were serious, they'd move to shut down the H-1B completely. It's completely unnecessary and only takes jobs from Americans. But that would mean going against their donors and other interests.
and it seems clear that the admin is desperate to improve manufacturing
Then they suck at it. Manufacturing sucks right now.
Not so much. Some of them absolutely are (like almost anyone who became a citizen under Biden), but the reason Trump won is because of his broad demographic coalition of support.
You know very well that American whites, isolated, are the only demo that would elect Republicans. Hell even white women would elect Republicans. Hispanics, isolated, would elect Democrats. And yeah I read your generation argument - younger whites are still going to be more right wing than younger Hispanics.
Moreover Hispanics have never created or preserved any constitutional freedoms as a people. Whites are the only hegemony capable. And on top of that... America is simply a white country. Majority non-white America will simply not be America.
American whites are a minority mostly because of American whites of the millennials and X'ers going through childlessness.
Racial demographics are percentages. If the Hispanic population wasn't shooting up (and we didn't import Somalis and Indians), the poor white birthrate wouldn't make them a minority.
We can still fix this by deporting people who don't even hold allegiance to America, but again, the administration doesn't want to. They clearly don't care about the white % at best. At worst they are beholden to people who want to decimate the white %.
The Insurrection Act may or may not be a good idea. What is needed is a seizure of the the Governor & Mayor for criminal charges, and RICO prosecutions, which is currently being worked on with a deputy AG.
You say that caution is required and then you advocate arresting the governor and mayor? All right, fine, I'm with you. That's one of the only ways that Trump atones to the base and doesn't get annihilated in the midterms. Sadly he is heading in that direction at the moment.
That was my mistake. I've heard that argument from far too many people who should know better, and I assumed it was yours too. My mistake, I apologize.
We've seen this happening on several quarterly reports so far. Real Wage growth was at 1.4% by the end of 2025. As I said, you can complain that it's not at the pace you want. But the fact that there's been almost zero real wage growth in 40 years, means that this is a major turnound in the policy of intentionally depressing American wages. That would be the adult conversation here.
For the first time since The Great Recession there is a migration outflow in the US. Again, this is not "zero progress", this a complete undoing of what every president has done for decades.
There are no easy steps when the Leftists are determined to stop all of them to stay in power. They are currently trying to incite a Civil War in order to deflect from the discovery of their fraud system. Everything else has been met with direct obstruction, to lawfare, to political assassination.
Your complaint is still that the pace isn't what you want. Not that no progress has been made. The right, like always, is deathly determined to seize defeat from the jaws of victory.
The mental illness of the left is delusion. The mental illness of the right is defeatism.
Inflation handily outpaces that growth, even at Trumpflation levels, so the average American worker will simply lose a little less, not gain anything.edit: I misunderstood what you wrote. Yes, there is slight real wage growth when compared to CPI. Yet inflation in many necessary categories is well above CPI, and my other criticisms hold. This is not a transformative achievement, but only the beginning of something - if the trend continues.If workers can even stay employed, anyway, with the premier American industry (tech) busy shipping jobs off to India, replacing continental jobs with Indians, and trying their hardest to replace everything else with AI.
For the first time, American white high school seniors are a minority at 49%. The pace of the outflow is too slow to make a difference, especially when natural born citizenship, chain migration, H-1B scabbing, passes for agriculture/hospitality, and all the other policies that made this a huge problem are still in place.
Yes, the most important metric is the proportion of American whites. Non-white American "citizens" are also a problem, not just migrants.
And the administration is not taking any strong action against them.
I didn't say "no progress." My title stated "barely any progress." You restated what I said.
For our purposes here I'm using the colloquial definition of Deflation and Inflation as "price raises/falls". Deflation has actually been measured in a couple of industries. Small amounts, but it shows that the admin took a hammer to the problem of inflation. Some goods and services will still experience some inflation depending on the combination of tariffs, global instability, steady regulation, and government spending. Overall, the trend is in the right direction. Our system is a Keynsian Socialist one so nominal price drops would require true deflation, which is not tolerated for any significant length of time. Hence why the admin is trying to "grow out of the problem" by working towards a 5% GDP. As you say, if the trend continues, but the groundwork has been clearly done.
Tech is not the only industry we have, and it seems clear that the admin is desperate to improve manufacturing. Tech is not shipping off jobs to India because full Indian development is poor. They are contracting with vendors in India, or otherwise pulling in H1B's. The admin's record on this is confused, and clearly has different factions pulling in different directions. Sometimes they say they are desperate for H1B's, and sometimes they are explicitly shutting down the pipeline. AI can not, and will not, replace jobs that aren't already irrelevant. It will only improve efficiency. Companies that try that method will be very quickly fail due to their inability to make anything competently.
American whites are a minority mostly because of American whites of the millennials and X'ers going through childlessness. Most of that is going to be related to social factors, rather than through material conditions. It doesn't help that American Whites happen to have maxed out on their support for the right at about 65%, and the rest are some of the most hardened Leftists alive. Defeating the Left culturally is the cure for that, and will take more than any administration can accomplish. I was explicitly vitriolic on this very forum over the fact that some people thought the culture war had ended just because Trump won in 2024. I maintain that all we've done is taken Mount Suribachi, and we will spend the next 40 years seizing the airfields and clearing the bunkers.
Not so much. Some of them absolutely are (like almost anyone who became a citizen under Biden), but the reason Trump won is because of his broad demographic coalition of support. Damn near half the people in ICE are Hispanic, for example. There is no further white support available to the right, and that was at a time where Trump was winning over the Lolbertarians (who are almost exclusively white). Trump's most hardline supporters, ethnographically, come from people self-identifying as "American". Among American Whites, his worst preforming ethnic group is "English". As the 1970's radicals have aged, they have taken their politics with them into the next age group, and so Trump is basically losing Seniors and Super Seniors because they've been more Leftist their whole lives. Even among Zoomers and Gen Alpha, only 35% or so self-identify as right-wing. That shows a major political shift in the demographic towards the right, but it's not a right-wing generation.
That 49% of American White Highschool seniors are mostly unironic Harris & Mamdani supporters
At the moment, caution is required. The reason they want a conflict is to rally themselves. This is a replay of 2020 and I'm not going to make the same mistake I did then: the violence unifies the Left. They are going into the midterms divided, and are astroturfing & demoralizing the right to gain an edge. Political violence, even among the Left is unifying. Rioting in Minneapolis solidifies support among Leftists.
The Insurrection Act may or may not be a good idea. What is needed is a seizure of the the Governor & Mayor for criminal charges, and RICO prosecutions, which is currently being worked on with a deputy AG. I'm praying to baby Jesus that this AG can get around Pam Blondie and her clearly terminal inaction and ignorance outside of Fox News appearances.
That was my mistake. I've heard that argument from far too many people who should know better, and I assumed it was yours too. My mistake, I apologize.
With the current economic strategy, most Americans won't even feel like we have 5% GDP growth even if we get there.
Yes, as I said, Indian CEOs are shipping American jobs off to India and Indians. The administration is only interested in paying lip service to solving this problem. If they were serious, they'd move to shut down the H-1B completely. It's completely unnecessary and only takes jobs from Americans. But that would mean going against their donors and other interests.
Then they suck at it. Manufacturing sucks right now.
You know very well that American whites, isolated, are the only demo that would elect Republicans. Hell even white women would elect Republicans. Hispanics, isolated, would elect Democrats. And yeah I read your generation argument - younger whites are still going to be more right wing than younger Hispanics.
Moreover Hispanics have never created or preserved any constitutional freedoms as a people. Whites are the only hegemony capable. And on top of that... America is simply a white country. Majority non-white America will simply not be America.
Racial demographics are percentages. If the Hispanic population wasn't shooting up (and we didn't import Somalis and Indians), the poor white birthrate wouldn't make them a minority.
We can still fix this by deporting people who don't even hold allegiance to America, but again, the administration doesn't want to. They clearly don't care about the white % at best. At worst they are beholden to people who want to decimate the white %.
You say that caution is required and then you advocate arresting the governor and mayor? All right, fine, I'm with you. That's one of the only ways that Trump atones to the base and doesn't get annihilated in the midterms. Sadly he is heading in that direction at the moment.
OK no problem, thanks