Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent's America 250 Address: Economic Statecraft, Tariffs, and the Dollar

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent – The 5 Pillars of Economic Statecraft

June 25, 2026 | Sundance |

At The Economic Club of New York’s gala marking America’s 250th anniversary, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent unveils a five-pillar framework for “economic statecraft” — tying trade, supply chains, and financial leadership directly to national security. WATCH:

At The Economic Club of New York's gala marking America's 250th anniversary, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent unveils a five-pillar framework for "economic statecraft" — tying trade, supply chains, and financial leadership directly to national security.

https://youtu.be/9Oz6IyDsSv8

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https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2026/06/25/treasury-secretary-scott-bessent-the-5-pillars-of-economic-statecraft/#more-284747

>>24759502

OMG Trump and Bessent are challenging the world and especially Europe, the US will never be used again. This is a warning to the world and every country!

Hamilton is back with Trump and America is back!!!

This is astounding.

>>24759579 it’s been a long sludge but we are good

>>24759595 all colors do stupid shit

‘Go Back to F*cking Haiti!’ Megyn Kelly Goes on Wild Rant Over Supreme Court Ruling

Jennifer Bowers Bahney

Jun 25th, 2026, 4:0

Podcaster Megyn Kelly celebrated the conservative Supreme Court’s 6-3 rulingThursday that paved the way for the Trump White House to end temporary legal protections and work authorization for hundreds of thousands of Haitian and Syrian immigrants.

On this week’s episode of her Sirius XM show, Kelly went on a wild rant, telling Haitian immigrants to “Go back to f*cking Haiti!”

“TPS (temporary protection status) designations are supposed to be for specific periods of time. Hence the word ‘temporary,’ Kelly said, adding, “The Obama admin granting Haitians TPS in 2010 due to the country’s devastating earthquake. Syrians receiving it in 2012 because of the country’s civil war. I mean, cry me a river. We have our own problems.”

TPS for both countries extended multiple times. And look, this has been going on for over a dozen years. Go home! Get out! We know our country is better than yours. That’s because we filled it with our work ethic and our culture and our values! You being here only dilutes it for us, those who built it and live it. And half of you people — more than half of you — won’t assimilate. We don’t want you!

We don’t care if you’re offended. Get out! Go home! Go back to f*cking Haiti! Sorry, I’m just I’m thinking about our friends in Ohio who’ve been dealing with these TPS Haitians for years now who are drunk driving all over their towns and killing people. This is the whole cats and dogs thing, like, they don’t want to live like Americans live. And this was supposed to be a temporary — It was supposed to be temporary help and it’s turned into another backdoor way of allowing someone permanent residency here.

During the 2024 presidential campaign, Donald Trump amplified the viral rumor about Haitian immigrants in Springfield, Ohio, saying,“they are eating the dogs. The people that came in, they are eating the cats. They’re eating – they are eating the pets of the people that live there.”

In her dissent on Thursday’s ruling, Justice Elena Kagan slammed Trump’s suggestions about the dogs and cats, as well as his descriptions of Haiti as a “sh*thole country,” and statements that Haitians living in the U.S. “probably have AIDS”.KEK its true!

(https://www.mediaite.com/media/news/go-back-to-fcking-haiti-megyn-kelly-goes-on-wild-rant-over-supreme-court-ruling/

Megyn Kelly Details Two MAJOR WINS for Trump’s Immigration Agenda and Bullsh*t Asylum Claims

Megyn Kelly starts the show by discussing two Supreme Court victories for President Trump’s immigration agenda, the ridiculous claims over the U.S. asylum system and temporary protected status, the ongoing controversy surrounding Haitian immigration, the broader challenges of immigration enforcement and assimilation, and more.

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https://youtu.be/nEO707FGa6A

>>24759710

That was funny, she’s right Trump is not wrong, KEK “they’re eating the dogs, they’re eating the cats, was funny but true to. They probably ate rats when they were in Haiti. The whole island is a shithole

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I loved watching him when Trump was gone. Cheered me up

>>24759801

God bless him, he’s gone through hell, I hope this has an effect on the upcoming election

>>24759816

Trump is prepared for anything. God bless our President

NYC Rent Guidelines Board approves 2-year rent freeze, fulfilling Mamdani campaign pledge

NY is fucked very soon

Tenants in about 1 million rent-stabilized apartments will not see their rents increase for the next two years after New York City’s Rent Guidelines Board approved a first-of-its-kind freeze at an annual hearing Thursday night.

The 7-1 vote marks the first two-year rent freeze in the board’s history and fulfills a key campaign pledge from Mayor Zohran Mamdani, who named six of the board’s nine members.

The decision applies to rent-stabilized apartments in buildings with six or more units built before 1974, as well as apartments in buildings that receive certain tax breaks or government subsidies. The freeze applies to new one- and two-year leases beginning between Oct. 1, 2026, and Sept. 30, 2027.

Hundreds of tenants packed the theater at El Museo del Barrio, singing and chanting about tenant power ahead of the board’s decision. Many in attendance, who had helped propel Mamdani’s successful campaign for mayor, which featured a viral vow to “freeze the rent,” held signs demanding a rent freeze. At least one attendee blew a whistle to punctuate the slogans resonating through the auditorium.

The tension peaked before owner representative Maksim Wynn cast the board's final vote. As he read a lengthy statement saying that policymakers should focus on "reducing expenses rather than raising rent," tenants interrupted with chants and whistles before erupting in cheers when he voted in favor of the freeze.

After the vote, tenants spilled into the street to celebrate.

"Organized tenants made history today," New York State Tenant Bloc Executive Director Sumathy Kumar said in a statement.

Mamdani's promise to "freeze the rent" for millions of tenants fueled his successful campaign for mayor last year. During Mayor Eric Adams' four years in office, the board approved annual rent increases totaling about 12% on one-year leases. The board had previously approved three one-year rent freezes, all during Mayor Bill de Blasio's administration.

Despite Mamdani’s campaign pledge, the mayor alone does not determine the annual rent increase or freeze. Instead, the mayor appoints members of the Rent Guidelines Board who are tasked with examining financial data and considering testimony from tenants and landlords before casting their final vote.

The board voted last month to consider a range of possible outcomes, from a two-year freeze to a 2% increase on one-year leases and a 4% increase on two-year leases.

Landlord groups assailed that vote, saying owners need to increase revenue much higher to keep up with their own rising costs on insurance, fuel and labor.

"The Rent Guidelines Board ignored its own data and made a terrible decision tonight," Real Estate Board of New York President James Whelan said in a statement.

New York state rent laws cap how much property owners can increase prices on regulated apartments, placing significant pressure on the board’s annual decision.

Hours before the vote, property owner representative Christina Smyth resigned from the board. In a statement shared with Gothamist, Smyth said the board had crossed a “legal line” by pursuing a rent freeze despite data she said contradicted the decision.

In a statement after the vote, Mamdani said the decision reflected the Rent Guidelines Board's independent review of financial data and public testimony.

"This is a historic victory for New York City tenants," Mamdani said. "After reviewing the data and hearing from New Yorkers across the city, the independent RGB has delivered a freeze on one-year leases, and the first-ever freeze on two-year leases in our city's history. This is the relief that working people across our city deserve."

Policy experts have said the city’s rent stabilization system preserves affordable housing for tens of thousands of renters, who are protected from exorbitant and unpredictable rent increases. A report released Monday by the anti-poverty group Robin Hood found rent regulations kept roughly 140,000 New Yorkers from slipping below the poverty line.

“New York City faces a profound affordability crisis,” said Robin Hood CEO Richard Buery, a former deputy mayor. “Families in stabilized apartments are already cutting back on food, utilities, and basic necessities just to stay housed.”

https://gothamist.com/news/nyc-rent-guidelines-board-approves-2-year-rent-freeze-fulfilling-mamdani-campaign-pledge

‘Everyone’s Like Wow!’ Trump SCOTUS Case ‘Boiled Over’ When Sotomayor ‘Blindsided’ Alito With Blistering Dissent

Tommy ChristopherJun 25th, 2026, 2:52 pm

CNN Chief Supreme Court Analyst Joan Biskupic revealed the intense scenewhen Justice Samuel Alito fumed at Justice Sonia Sotomayor over a blistering dissent that “blindsided” him as several decisions involving President Donald Trump’s immigration agenda were read out.

The court announced a pair of 6-3 decisions on Thursday, one (Mullin v. Al Otro Lado) involving asylum-seekers arriving at the border and another (Mullin v. Doe) on the rescission of Temporary Protected Status.

On Thursday’s edition of CNN’s Inside Politics,Biskupic described the dramatic scene when Alito read out the former decision, and Sotomayor hit him with a surprise dissent that triggered Alito:

CNN ANCHOR DANA BASH: In the Supreme Court, in the chamber, when the justices put forward these two opinions, I can’t imagine how it felt in there, because we’ve seen the divide over and over again, but this was really explicit.

CNN CHIEF SUPREME COURT ANALYST JOAN BISKUPIC:It really was, Dana, and it boiled over in this one encounter between Justice Alito and Justice Sotomayor, who was dissenting from both of these immigration cases, and actually all three of the cases that Samuel Alito read today from the bench.

And after he finished the Mexican one, the one about the border and the definition of has somebody arrived or not arrived and you know that involves border agents going out and actually blocking asylum seekers from getting in.

There’s all sorts of good reasons for why administrations, and not just the Trump administration, the administration before it and the Biden administration for a while, wants to limit who’s coming, but the method is one that’s very controversial.

And after he finished explaining why that was perfectly legitimate for the administration to do, to block these asylum seekers, Justice Sotomayor said, “I have a dissent here.”.

Now, Justice Alito paused. So he must have known that something was coming from her. But I’ll pick up on how he responded after she spoke.

She begins, Dana, by talking about the moral imperative of allowing asylum seekers who are fleeing serious persecution from coming to America, allowing them to come to America. And she recalls… Incidents from the Nazi Germany era, specifically one episode when 900 Jews were on a ship trying to get to, first Cuba and then to the U.S.

And they were turned back in 1939. They go back to Germany, about ha– a substantial portion of them end up dying in concentration camps.

And she brings that to the fore immediately as she’s starting to dissent about this case involving the Mexican border.

And then she talks about kind of the narrow idea of asylum that the majority has captured here and also talks about how it’s really a way to circumvent the legitimate statutes that are on the books here, the way that the minority has read it.

She finishes… She takes about three times as long as Sam Alito had taken to deliver the actual opinion.

And the first thing he says before he starts to recount the temporary protected status opinion that he also has, he says, “If I had known what the dissent was going to say, I would have explained my ruling more.”.

And he just sits there kind of stone-faced, and everyone’s like, wow! And he definitely suggested he was blindsided. I have a feeling that she might have said maybe right before they were going on the bench. You know, hey, Sam, I’ve got something to say.

But then he then goes, with just anger dripping from his voice, to then detail what they were ruling in the temporary protected status case.

And as you just heard from Priscilla, that ruling really will affect a lot of people immediately. And the liberals dissented from that in a very strongly worded statement from Justice Elena Kagan.

But she chose not to read anything from the bench, probably because there had been enough fireworks for the morning at that point.

https://www.mediaite.com/media/news/everyones-like-wow-trump-scotus-case-boiled-over-when-sotomayor-blindsided-alito-with-blistering-dissent/

All 3 liberals are retarded

'Complete and utter disaster': South African farmer living in Huntsville about DEI policies. 1/2

Erica Thomas | 06.21.26

A South African farmer who moved his family to the United States in 2019 to escape violence is now thriving in Huntsville. It's a place where he can go to the bank and actually see the teller. It's a place where he doesn't need 36 locks to keep people out of his home. It's a place where his wife can walk along in a park and feel safe.

Those are simple things Jason Bartlett does not take for granted.

Bartlett has a large following on social media. He talks about his home country, his journey to asylum, and the new life he has built in Alabama.He works at a golf club and farms. His life is peaceful, but it hasn't always been that way.

South Africa sees more than 27,000 murders each year. In the U.S., with a much larger population, there are around 20,000 murders each year.

From a young age, Bartlett said he watched the escalation of "radical violence" in South Africa, which he said targeted white people. Members of his church were attacked and murdered. Family members were brutally attacked.

In 2015, Bartlett was attacked by two black men on a bridge. He was stabbed but fought off the attackers. At the time, he was working in Cape Town, which was considered a safe haven. But after his wife was attacked, the family decided to flee the area.

By 2019, Bartlett was working on a cruise ship to escape the violence. AfriForum, which tracks farm attacks, reported that from 2019 to 2024, there was an average of 676 farm attacks each week. During that same time period, 3,240 victims were either murdered, assaulted, raped, or threatened, or present at the scene of an attack. Based on the data, white farmers were disproportionately targeted.

Bartlett would stay in the farm areas with his family between cruises. After flying back to Miami on one trip, Bartlett learned that his cousin had been attacked while having a barbecue with family.

"Eight black men who broke into the house while he was having a barbecue outside shot him through the back of the head," Barlett recalled. "The bullet came out just above his eye. They then threw him into the fire, as well and burned him and urinated on him."

Miraculously, the cousin survived. But his wife and two young daughters witnessed the attack. The family was tied up and struck with crowbars as the assailants ransacked their home. When police arrived, Bartlett said they refused to document the incident and called it "a normal break-in."

As a Christian, Bartlett said he believes God saved the family.

"It's nothing other than a miracle," he said.

Since moving to Alabama, Bartlett has kept in contact with family in South Africa. They are living behind 10-foot electric fences and fear for their lives daily. Bartlett's family is not alone. Homes along city streets are barricaded by tall fences fortified with spikes or electrical fencing.

"It's just amplifying, and it's getting worse and worse every single day, and it shows no signs of stopping," Bartlett said of the violence."It's complete anarchy there. It's complete anarchy, and it's not safe for white people anymore."

Bartlett believes the government, law enforcement,and the media conceal what's happening in South Africa because it is a failed DEI (diversity, equity, and inclusion) project. He warns that DEI policy could be dangerous in the U.S.

"They don't know what the DEI projects lead to," Bartlett said. "South Africa is a DEI project that has completely failed. That's why it's being covered up so well, because the American mainstream media also covers it up for them. It's because if that fails, their whole program fails. It is a complete and utter disaster, and they're trying to hide it."

After being in the U.S. for seven years, Bartlett said he has already witnessed the divide between blacks and whites.

https://1819news.com/news/item/complete-and-utter-disaster-south-african-farmer-living-in-huntsville-about-dei-policies

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2/2

"They can just stand up and shout the BLM and black lives matters, and you're not allowed to say anything about your white race because then you're the racist," Bartlett explained. "The American people, in the most kindest way, are the most generous people, and I absolutely love living here. However, they need to wake up more. They are already starting to wake up; they can see it, but they need to wake up more and challenge the people everywhere they go. They need to push policies.They need to go and vote. They need to get out because the Democratic Party in this country is self-loathing and self-hating."

As a 39-year-old man who has seen significant change in his home country,Bartlett warned that DEI can take a world-class country and annihilate its culture and broader civilization.Bartlett said he is thankful for the freedom and safety he enjoys in Alabama.

"It's offered us a future where we can put our heads down and work hard and absolutely thrive," he said in tears."It's difficult to put it into words, to be walking around a country that actually loves you."

Bartlett is working towards becoming a U.S. citizen. He said he has followed all the procedures and hopes to see the results next year. In the meantime,he said he wants to continue to promote hormone-free, pesticide-free, locally grown food. He is living in Huntsville, which he calls a "booming town," – no pun intended.

"It is booming," he said. "I mean, you've got rockets. I think the FBI is coming here. The buildings are coming here. Space Force is coming here. This is just a place to be. It's thriving. We just want to work and add to our communities.So, I think that's why the Lord brought me to Alabama, because I think there's so much opportunity."

Bartlett said that as a foreigner,he believes it is his duty to assimilate and work for the country.

"We don't want free handouts," said Bartlett. "We want to pay our taxes so we can live safely, and that's all we want. We just want some safety and freedom, and we don't want to be discriminated against by 146 laws because we are white."

"I think America is excited to see foreigners coming to their country that are not stealing from them and not burning the place down, but actually building the place up and adding to society and putting Americans first," he continued."It took me about 10 seconds to integrate into this community. These people from the south are just like us. They hardly even ask where you're from. They just see your morals and your values are the same, and when you're sitting in church, and you're praising the same God, they realize this is not the enemy. This is someone that's here to build and help make America great and keep it healthy and keep it safe."

With each trip to the bank and every evening stroll in the park, Bartlett thanks God.

"It's just the simple things that make it so awesome," he said. "That's why almost every video I make, I end with 'Alabama is awesome' or 'America is awesome,' because it really is."

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https://1819news.com/news/item/complete-and-utter-disaster-south-african-farmer-living-in-huntsville-about-dei-policies

‘I’m Done, I’m Not in That F*ckingPolitical Party’: James Carville Freaks Out After Progressives Win Big in Democratic Primaries

Michael Luciano

Jun 24th, 2026, 6:43 pm

Is he becoming a Republican now, that would be funny?

James Carville: What Just Happened In The NYC Primaries

Democratic strategist James Carville called for a “schism” in the Democratic Party, stating that he wants nothing to do with the likes of three candidates who won their Democratic primaries in New York.

On Tuesday, three candidates endorsed by New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani, a democratic socialist, won Democratic primaries for the House of Representatives.

Former NYC comptroller Brad Lander crushed Rep. Dan Goldman to earn the nomination in the 10th district. Union organizer Darializa Avila Chevalier defeated Rep. Adriano Espaillat in the 13th district. And state Rep. Claire Valdez trounced Brooklyn Borough President Antonio Reynoso in the 7th district. All three districts are solidly blue, and so the Mamdani-backed candidates are expected to win.

On Wednesday’s Politicon podcast, Carville freaked out at the results. He noted that Avila Chevalier, who was born to Dominican immigrants, once said white people should not be in interracial marriages.

“Lady, I ain’t in the same party as you,” Carville said. “I’m sorry. I’m just not. And I actually do think it’s time for Democrats to talk the ‘s’ word: schism. I really do. Everybody’s always said, ‘No, no. We’re a coalition. We’re a big tent.’ And there’s just some sh*t I can’t be in the same tent with.”

Carville then insisted that despite winning their Democratic primaries, “these people are not Democrats.” He then suggested that establishment Democrats “negotiate the terms of a schism” with democratic socialists in the party.

“But I’m done,” he continued. “I’m not in that f*cking political party. I am totally comfortable in a political party that spends time questioning the policies of the government of Israel. In fact, I’m enthusiastic about that. I don’t want to be in a political party that denies the right of the state of Israel to exist. That’s just not– I just can’t do that.”

==Democrats were too focused on taking Trump out, they didn’t watch what the radicals were doing. KEK

https://www.mediaite.com/media/news/im-done-im-not-in-that-fcking-political-party-james-carville-freaks-out-after-progressives-win-big-in-democratic-primaries/

https://youtu.be/e8fd8Rvpwh8