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Why would Fox and Friends Weekend (of all things?) put on a “Stockbroker” named Peter Schiff, a Trump hating loser who has already proven to be wrong. Either the show made a mistake, or it is heading in a different direction. He thinks prices are going up when, in fact, they are coming substantially down. Gasoline hit $1.99 a gallon yesterday, in certain states, and is down BIG since Biden. Other prices are almost all down. Biden caused the AFFORDABILITY CRISIS, I’M FIXING IT, along with everything else! Much of it, like the Border, is already fixed. Check out the “booker” who put this jerk on!

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Donald J. Trump / @realDonaldTrump 12/06/2025 08:07:13

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Caitlin Collin’s of Fake News CNN, always Stupid and Nasty, asked me why the new Ballroom was costing more money than originally thought one year ago. I said because it is going to be double the size, and the quality of finishes and interiors has been brought to the highest level. Also, the column SPAN has been substantially increased for purposes of viewing. It is actually under budget and ahead of schedule, as my jobs always are. It’s just much bigger and more beautiful than originally planned. Interestingly, and seldom reported, there are no taxpayer dollars involved. It is being fully paid for by private donations. FAKE NEWS CNN, and the guy who runs the whole corrupt operation that owns it, is one of the worst in the business. Their ratings are so low that they’re not even counted or relevant anymore. MAGA!!!

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Caitlin Collin’s vs Kaitlan Collins

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Chek't

She clearly has a form of TDS

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Trump’s affordability crusade beats the streets with tiny truck solution

On Wednesday, President Donald Trump announced a comprehensive reset of federal fuel economy standards, aiming to ease regulations on the auto industry to boost American manufacturing and reduce costs for consumers.

One vehicle in particular will benefit from such regulation reduction: the Asian sensation Kei truck, also known as Kei vans or micro-trucks, a category of ultra-compact, lightweight pickup trucks and utility vehicles popular in Asia, especially Japan, South Korea, and parts of Southeast Asia like Malaysia.

Trump encountered the tiny tonka during his October Asia trip, which included stops in Japan, Southeast and East Asia for trade talks. In Japan amid negotiations over U.S. exports like the Ford F-150 pick-up, which Japan reportedly considered buying as snow plows to appease Trump, he spotted Kei trucks zipping around narrow streets and described them as "very small, really cute, and beautiful."

Multiple models would be highly marketable and profitable in the U.S. including the $14,000 Toyota Hilus, the $2,000 Micro-EVs or the $4,000 Suzuki Alto.

Fully functional workhorses

Kei trucks are typically under 11 feet long, 4 1/2 feet wide and 6 1/2 feet tall, a size that lends itself to weaving through city traffic or parking in tight spots. The engines are also smaller. They are limited to 660 cc, which is significantly smaller compared to U.S. trucks' 5+ liters, producing around 40 to 65 horsepower.

Originating in Japan in the post-World War II era, "Kei" (short for keijidōsha, or "light vehicle") refers to a special class of vehicles designed for narrow urban streets, high fuel efficiency, and affordability. Despite their petite size, they are not toys or scale models; they are fully functional workhorses, often used for deliveries, farming, or small business logistics.

Many barriers have blocked the vehicle's prominence. They are not outright banned federally, but they occupy a legal gray area in which strict regulations make them challenging to import, register, and drive on public roads. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) standards require crash protection, lighting, and emissions compliance designed for larger vehicles. Kei trucks' small size means they fail side-impact and rollover tests without costly modifications.

State laws also prevented their success: even modified imports (over 25 years old via the "classic car" loophole) are often off-limits on public roads—restricted to farms or low-speed private use in places like California, or banned outright elsewhere due to speed limits (top 60 mph) and vulnerability next to semis.

Americans can no longer afford new cars

Automobile affordability has reached a crisis point due to a number of factors. The average cost of a new car sits at roughly $48,800 with monthly payments exceeding $760, which has left many American families struggling to afford transportation amid broader economic pressures.

Much of this unaffordability stems from persistent inflation that eroded purchasing power, with prices rising over 21% since early 2021. As wages lagged behind, public sentiment trends towards seeing vehicle purchases as a luxury rather than a necessity.

The Biden administration's $1.9 trillion American Rescue Plan in 2021, which passed despite warnings from economists like Larry Summers, flooded the economy with stimulus, adding up to 4 percentage points to inflation and driving up costs across sectors including automobiles. Compounding the issue, Biden's stringent Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFE) standards and electric vehicle mandates imposed burdensome regulations on automakers, forcing costly technological upgrades that pushed new car prices up by an estimated $1,000 per vehicle and contributed to a 25% overall surge in costs.

CAFE standards rolled back

Adding to Trump's affordability efforts in the automotive sector, on Wednesday, Trump announced a major rollback of Biden's CAFE standards, reducing the 2031 fleet-average target from ~50 mpg to ~34.5 mpg and cutting required annual efficiency gains from 2% to just 0.5%. The proposal eliminates the CAFE credit-trading system that benefited Tesla and resets standards for 2022–2031, aiming to lower vehicle prices, preserve consumer choice in gas-powered cars, and end what the administration calls an unlawful backdoor EV mandate.

The rule is now open for public comment and, if finalized, will significantly ease fuel-economy requirements for traditional vehicles while drawing criticism from environmental groups for increasing long-term fuel use and pollution.

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Afghan watchdog concludes billions in weapons U.S. left behind form ‘core’ of Taliban military

The inspector general responsible for scrutinizing U.S. reconstruction efforts in Afghanistan has detailed the billions of dollars wasted by the U.S. government during the 20-year war in the country and concluded that the arsenal of U.S.-provided military weaponry that was left behind now forms the “core” of the Taliban’s own military machine.

A massive number of U.S.-made and U.S.-supplied weapons and military facilities were left behind in Afghanistan as a result of President Joe Biden’s troop withdrawal announcement in April 2021, which resulted in the dissolution of the Afghan military, a chaotic U.S. evacuation, and a Taliban takeover in August 2021.

The Special Inspector General for Afghan Reconstruction (SIGAR) issued its “final forensic audit report” this week more than four years after the U.S. withdrawal and evacuation from the country, concluding that “these U.S. taxpayer-funded equipment, weapons, and facilities have formed the core of the Taliban security apparatus.” SIGAR said in its final report that it will close its doors at the end of January 2026 as a result of the National Defense Authorization Act for 2025.

The report said that the Pentagon has concluded that the U.S. left behind weaponry worth at least $7.1 billion — weapons now in the hands of the Taliban — and that the U.S. government also continued to send $3.47 billion in humanitarian and development assistance to Afghanistan after the Taliban takeover.

The U.S. invaded Afghanistan on October 7, 2001, in response to the September 11 terror attacks a month earlier. The U.S. presence in Afghanistan continued under four presidents. Though many inspector general reports include a response from those connected to the findings, this one did not.

Acting SIGAR Gene Aloise said in a letter attached to the new report that “despite nearly $90 billion in U.S. appropriations for security-sector assistance, Afghan security forces ultimately collapsed quickly without a sustained U.S. military presence” and that the watchdog office’s work “highlights serious systemic issues with reconstruction and paints a picture of a two-decade long effort fraught with waste.”

“Over two decades, the United States invested billions of dollars and incurred thousands of casualties in a mission that promised to bring stability and democracy to Afghanistan, yet ultimately delivered neither,” the report said. “The rapid collapse of the Afghan government in August 2021 laid bare the fragility that had been concealed by years of confident assertions of progress. The gap between ambition and reality was vast, with deteriorating conditions continually stymying objectives that proved to be unrealistic.”

SIGAR said that it found that “despite 20 years and $90 billion of U.S. support, the U.S. and Afghan governments failed to create an independent and self-sustainable Afghan National Defense and Security Forces." The report found that “the ANDSF remained reliant on the U.S. military in part because the United States designed the ANDSF as a mirror image of U.S. forces, which required a high degree of professional military sophistication and leadership” – creating “long-term ANDSF dependencies” – and “the decision to withdraw all U.S. military personnel and dramatically reduce U.S. support to the ANDSF destroyed the morale of Afghan soldiers and police.”

The collapse of the Afghan forces and the Taliban takeover meant billions of dollars worth of U.S.-provided weapons were now in the hands of the Talibs.

U.S. left behind billions of dollars of military equipment and facilities now used by Taliban security forces

The report also laid out how the majority of the money the U.S. government spent on Afghan reconstruction went to Afghan security services. This meant $88.8 billion for security, $35.9 billion for development and governance, $16.3 billion for agency operations, and $7.1 billion for humanitarian assistance.

The report said that “Congress appropriated nearly $80.7 billion” to the Afghan Security Forces Fund (ASFF) “which comprised nearly 91 percent of all security-related reconstruction appropriations.” The ASFF was designed to provide the ANDSF with “equipment, supplies, services, training, and funding for salaries, as well as facility and infrastructure repair, renovation, and construction.”

The SIGAR report said that, from 2002 onward, the U.S. “obligated $31.2 billion on infrastructure, equipment, and transportation for the ANDSF” and that “of the $31.2 billion, the U.S. spent $19.7 billion to equip and transport the ANDSF.”

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The report said this included the purchase of 96,000 ground vehicles, more than 51,000 general purpose or light tactical vehicles, nearly 24,000 High Mobility Multipurpose Wheeled Vehicles, close to 900 armored combat vehicles, more than 427,000 weapons, over 17,000 helmet-worn night vision devices, and a minimum of 162 aircraft.

SIGAR said that Pentagon records from late July 2021 – roughly two weeks before the Taliban seized Kabul – “indicated that the Afghan Air Force had 162 U.S.-provided aircraft in its inventory, of which 131 were usable.”

The report added that “the remaining $11.5 billion of the $31.2 billion spent by the U.S. was devoted to the construction of infrastructure for the ANDSF, including the construction of headquarters, training facilities, and bases or outposts around the country.”

“DoD determined that the United States left behind approximately $7.1 billion in material and equipment it had given to the ANDSF,” SIGAR stated. “Similarly, any remaining ANDSF facilities that were not destroyed, can be assumed to be under Taliban control.”

SIGAR also found that “approximately $57.6 million likely remained in Afghan government-controlled accounts when the Taliban took over in August 2021” and that “it is likely that the Taliban were able to access at least a portion of this money when they took over Afghanistan’s Ministry of Finance.”

U.S. inadvertently armed and equipped its former Taliban adversaries

A Pentagon spokesman said in October 2021 – just a couple of months after the Taliban takeover – that “since 2005, the U.S. military has provided the Afghan national defense and security forces with many thousands of small arms, ranging from pistols to medium machine guns” and that “we recognize that large numbers of these weapons are probably now in Taliban hands.”

The Defense Department inspector general also conducted an investigation into the U.S.-provided weapons that were left behind in Afghanistan and that are now mostly in the hands of the Taliban. The watchdog argued that “the U.S.-funded equipment now under the control of the Taliban had previously been property of the Afghan National Defense and Security Forces.”

The Pentagon inspector general revealed in 2022 that the U.S. military left $7.12 billion worth of U.S.-funded aircraft, vehicles, weapons, munitions, and other equipment in Afghan government inventories at the time of the Taliban takeover. This included Afghan military aircraft “valued at $923.3 million” – although the U.S. military stressed that “some” of these aircraft were “demilitarized and rendered inoperable” during the NEO – as well as aircraft weapons “valued at $294.6 million.” This also included Afghan ground vehicles “valued at $4.12 billion” – including tactical vehicles such as Humvees and Mine-Resistant Ambush Protected vehicles (MRAPs). The U.S. military had transferred 35 MRAPs to the Afghan Ministry of Defense in early 2021.

The Pentagon watchdog found that “Afghan forces had 316,260 weapons, worth $511.8 million, as well as ammunition and other equipment in their stocks when the former government fell.” This included rifles, sniper rifles, pistols, machine guns, rocket-propelled grenade launchers, and howitzers. The Taliban also got its hands on “specialty ground munitions (such as mortar rounds), communications equipment, explosive ordnance detection and disposal equipment, night vision devices, and other surveillance equipment.”

The Pentagon argued at the time that the U.S. military had removed or destroyed nearly all major equipment used by U.S. troops in Afghanistan throughout the drawdown period in 2021.

Former CENTCOM Commander Gen. Frank McKenzie wrote in his memoir that “the thousands of weapons ranging from M4 and M16 rifles to D-30 artillery pieces that were in the hands of the Afghan military … were all lost.” The general said the Taliban also likely gained control of “12,000 high-mobility multi-wheeled vehicles and 21,000 Ford Ranger trucks.” And the general wrote that “37 aircraft that weren’t at HKIA fell into Taliban hands at airbases like Kandahar.” All told, the general said that “our best estimate was that the equipment lost totaled about $18 billion.”

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The Taliban claimed to have recovered 40 operational aircraft from the former Afghan government, including two Mi-17 helicopters, two UH-60 Black Hawk helicopters, two MD-530 light helicopters, two Mi-24 helicopter gunships, and one fixed-wing transport aircraft – all of which the Pentagon said have since been observed flying.

SIGAR later revealed that an unclassified Defense Intelligence Agency assessment from March 2022 stated that the Taliban claimed to have repaired seven former Afghan Air Force aircraft, with the DIA indicating that “the Taliban may have obtained a degree of operation and maintenance capability.”

The United Nations sanctions monitoring team said in July 2024 that the Taliban claimed it had 60 aircraft in service, an increase from 40 aircraft in 2023. The UN team said that “there have been at least three operations in which Taliban forces successfully used existing Mi-17 transport helicopters, Mi-24 attack helicopters, and MD-500 light attack helicopters.”

The Pentagon had also provided the Afghan forces with specialty ground munitions such as mortar rounds, communications equipment, explosive ordnance detection and disposal equipment, night vision devices, and other surveillance equipment – equipment in the hands of the Afghan military when it collapsed and the Taliban took over.

The Biden White House had previously downplayed the value of the equipment left behind.

Then-White House press secretary Jen Psaki said at the end of August 2021 that “our objective was not to leave them with any equipment, but that is not always an option when you are looking to retrograde and move out of a war zone.”

Then-Pentagon press secretary John Kirby insisted in November 2021: “We were nothing but clear from the very beginning that we fully expected that property and equipment that we had turned over to the Afghans – it was Afghan national security force equipment, and vehicles, their equipment and vehicles – we were completely transparent about the idea that some of those would probably find their way into Taliban hands, and they have,”

Kirby said the only thing left operable at Kabul airport when the U.S. left at the end of August 2021 was “some airport vehicles like a fire truck, I think a forklift, one of those stair trucks, and some firefighting equipment.”

Latifullah Hakimi, head of the Taliban’s Ranks Clearance Commission, claimed in 2022 that during their takeover of Afghanistan the Taliban had seized over 300,000 small arms, 26,000 heavy weapons, and roughly 61,000 military vehicles.

The Taliban claimed in 2022 that it was working to professionalize its security forces, and the Taliban Ministry of Defense announced that recruitment for 130,000 troops for its new national army had been completed.

Taliban defense spokesman Enayatullah Kharazami said in August 2022 that the Taliban had the ability to increase its military size to 200,000 soldiers if it wanted to, and further recruitment was underway.

The Taliban claimed in March 2024 that it was now in charge of a combined military and police force of over 384,000 forces in Afghanistan. SIGAR said at the time that the State Department couldn’t verify those numbers and that the Pentagon doesn’t track that data.

U.S. wasted more than one hundred billion on Afghan reconstruction efforts

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The new SIGAR report stated that, from 2002 through mid-2021, the U.S. government “appropriated approximately $144.7 billion for Afghanistan reconstruction” and that, since its creation in 2009, SIGAR “identified 1,327 instances of waste, fraud, and abuse totaling between $26.0 billion and $29.2 billion.”

The watchdog report said the U.S. government provided more than $144.7 billion for the reconstruction of Afghanistan during the twenty-year war, and that “an additional $763 billion was spent on warfighting.”

“Billions of dollars spent to develop and equip the Afghanistan National Defense and Security Forces, as well as billions of dollars spent to construct civilian infrastructure were lost when the United States withdrew from Afghanistan in August 2021,” SIGAR concluded. “Together, the U.S. obligated at least $38.6 billion equipping and building infrastructure for the ANDSF and constructing civil infrastructure for the benefit of the Afghan people.”

U.S. continued sending billions to Taliban-controlled Afghanistan

The SIGAR report also made it clear that the U.S. continued sending billions of dollars to Afghanistan after August 2021, even though it was now controlled by the Taliban.

“Despite Afghanistan falling to the Taliban in 2021, the United States continued to be the nation’s largest donor, having disbursed more than $3.83 billion in humanitarian and development assistance there since,” the report said. The money continued to flow even through the first quarter of 2025, with disbursements of $120 million.

The watchdog said that “following a review of U.S.-funded foreign assistance programs in the first quarter of fiscal year 2025, the United States terminated all foreign assistance awards in Afghanistan.”

The report said that, during the Biden administration, the UN also continued sending “shipments of U.S. currency to Afghanistan” which had “stabilized the Afghan economy” but also “benefited the Taliban.”

“SIGAR reported on U.S. funds used to pay taxes to the Taliban-controlled government of Afghanistan,” the new report concluded. “SIGAR found that since the fall of the Afghan government in August 2021, at least $10.9 million in U.S. funds were used to pay taxes to the Taliban-controlled government on the $2.8 billion in humanitarian and development assistance delivered to help the people of Afghanistan. While the United States government made exceptions for such types of payments, U.S. agencies inconsistently required its implementing partners to report on taxes paid to the Taliban.”

The “No Tax Dollars For Terrorists Act” — which requires the State Department to “develop and implement a strategy to discourage foreign countries and nongovernmental organizations from providing financial or material support to the Taliban” — passed the House in June and is awaiting action in the Senate.

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