The Free Zone/P4B Digest 2
25 March to 5 April 2025
Six Degrees
The P4B and the Free Zone is working hard to get into all 50 states. Where we are growing, states and large swaths of states are starting to swing Right. That doesn't mean the P4B was the driving force, but every brick on the wall counts for something.
Based on the concept of "Six Degrees of Separation" or "Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon", if you've ever played the game, I've decides to span the USA one state at a time. We're moderate to strong in 29 states. We have no subscriber presence in the rest. We likely have users/visitors in those states, but we have no record, no way to track our reach.
So this week it's Wisconsin. They are still quite purple as the last special election demonstrated. Let's darken the blue hue. Share this update with someone in or near Wisconsin. Tell them to grab a free subscription and share this again, rinse and repeat. Within six shares, we're bound to find the perfect P4B fan/new subscriber. Let's see if, by the next Free Zone update, we have new Political Party Poopers* in the Badger State.
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*Political party/party pooper - Doesn't care about party as much as getting it right.
Tariffs: Watch carefully and hang tough!
Working backward, in two recent articles (here and here), I gave reasons to be critical of Trump's tariff ideas and reasons to support them. The most important thing you need to keep in mind is the stock market. Don't get loose stools over it. You see two things happening right now.
1. There are large investors, banks and corporations, with indexes and funds located around the globe. They have weeks of untangling to do in order to strike the right investment balance in this new atmosphere.
2. There are investors, some of whom CLAIM to be professionals who ARE selling out of a sense of panic steeped in ignorance. What Trump is doing is powerfully DISRUPTIVE. It is not going to destroy the world market. Everybody, on all sides, have a stake in keeping trade alive. They will maneuver as well as they can to live in the new trade regime as advantageously as possible. But they're not going to shrivel up and die.
Browse those recent posts for more info.
How Green Scams WILL Wreck the Economy
Also, in the last week, I made a pitch for sharply curtailing the expansion of wind and solar. Private projects, with no money out of taxpayer pockets? GREAT! Put solar on your roof, or cover your parking lots with the stuff. If any of the "green" claims are true (few claims are, as it turns out), the market will reward you. If you want to have a windmill on your farm or in your yard, go for it, for the same reasons.
But we will not find the energy we need to onshore manufacturing and support AI applications from pinwheels or solar cells. That is an absolute impossibility, a fool's play. We need robust, constant, reliable power. Wind and solar, by their very nature, are neither. This is an important episode.
Also, the green scam article has a Frumpy Fani update. They're always fun. There are also two videos and a bouquet of links you can immerse yourself in, addressing this and related subjects. It's energy wonk heaven.
Bobby K and Food
RFK, Jr has a lot of great ideas. I want to see him tear into vaccines. We need to run test, long term tests, to find out if there is a link between 70+ jabs before age 4 and some of the mental and developmental disorders that are running rampant. I also made a case for cleaning up our processed foods. What are they doing to us?
What nobody should be doing right now is messing with crop yields. When people talk about "soil enhancements" and pesticides it's not lost on me. When crusaders say our food supply needs to be organic, alarm bells go off in my head. Now is NOT the time to be reducing the output of our domestic food supply. We are about to go through a radical period of adjustment with foreign supply.
In fact don't mess with it al all until you have a replacement for whatever you are knocking out. Yes, we want safe food. But primarily we want food and lots of it! There's more in the post.
Finally, in He's No Nino! I gave Chief Justice John Roberts a proper spanking for his recent, and not so recent antics on the bench.
I've never liked the guy. While he might have been an okay associate justice, he's always been too much of a showboat for the top job. I think you'll enjoy this read.
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