Trump broke ground on the biggest new American shipyard since WWII, on the old Bethlehem Steel site. A day later, Rubio told the West to reindustrialize or accept decline. With 25 days to go, here's why the midterms will be won on the economy, and why you have to vote on the future.
Today's show is over. Watch the replay and join us next Thursday, LIVE. Trump is building the largest new US shipyard since World War II on an abandoned steel mill, and taxpayers get a 40% stake. Barbara and Susan explain why that wins the midterms.
London's Guardian is reeling: Flávio Bolsonaro's first-round win puts Latin America's nationalist sweep within reach after USAID's shutdown. Plus Trump revives Sparrows Point with a new shipyard, and why globalist financiers bankroll socialism.
Trump broke ground on the biggest new American shipyard since WWII, on the old Bethlehem Steel site. A day later, Rubio told the West to reindustrialize or accept decline. With 25 days to go, here's why the midterms will be won on the economy, and why you have to vote on the future.
This week, President Trump stood on the ground where Bethlehem Steel once employed 30,000 people. He launched construction of the largest new shipyard in the United States since World War II, and American taxpayers will own a 40% stake in it.
The next day in Athens, Secretary of State Marco Rubio told the West it can reindustrialize or resign itself to "atrophy and servitude and decline." These were two shots fired by the same side in the war between the American System of Hamilton and Lincoln and the City of London.
That was the thesis of yesterday's LIVE: The Midterms Will Be Won on the Economy — Here's Why. Prices still hurt, and Barbara Boyd and Susan Kokinda didn't pretend otherwise. Their case is that you vote on where the country is going, not on the pain behind us.
Election Day is 25 days away, and ballots are already landing in mailboxes.
"Everybody get 10 people. It's in our hands, folks. We can either get disorganized by all the crap that's being thrown at us, or we can win."
— Barbara Boyd
"When you vote, vote as a Promethean, not as an Epimethean."
— Susan Kokinda
The show runs about two hours, so jump to any chapter below, and take the assignment at the bottom.
Adam Sturman opened with the President's own words: "The storied grounds of Sparrows Point will never fall silent again."
These are the shores where Baltimore forged steel for the Empire State Building and the Golden Gate Bridge, and built the first Liberty ship of World War II.
Anduril, a new defense company run by sharp millennials, is investing $3.7 billion in the yard, and the Navy is adding $2.9 billion. It will build the next generation of American submarines, including autonomous subs and components for Virginia-class attack submarines.
Then Barbara told the story most of the press won't. In 1957, Bethlehem Steel employed 30,000 people at Sparrows Point. Her husband's father worked there, and so did her husband before he went into the military.
That mill gave a family with 10 kids a skill, a decent living and a middle-class life.
It died when the "post-industrial society" took hold in the 1970s. Bethlehem Steel needed capital to modernize and couldn't get the loans, because the globalists had decided America didn't need to make steel. Baltimore became famous for TV crime shows instead.
Susan added that Detroit got the same treatment: hospitals, casinos and arenas where the factories used to be.
Rubio traced the Western mind to the Greek conviction "that there is a rational order to the cosmos," governed by laws "the mind can come to understand." Then he laid out America's choice: "to reindustrialize our economy, to rebuild our defense."
Susan went straight to the economics. "Whether he knows it or not, he just obliterated Adam Smith," she said. Smith taught that man cannot know the consequences of his actions, so he should leave them to an invisible hand.
The American System says the opposite. Your mind is in constant dialogue with the universe, and the universe grades your ideas by whether your society grows or collapses. Barbara called the speech "a history lesson in 20 minutes" and told viewers to send it to their kids.
For the opposite of Athens, look at New York. On October 7, Zohran Mamdani was shouted down at a pro-Palestinian rally on his own side of the aisle. Barbara's point was that Jacobin revolutions eat their own and end in terror and a dictator, and France is running that script now.
Barbara's pamphlet on how oligarchs run these revolutions:
Barbara Boyd
Susan brought the scorecard: $26 billion of signed, concrete investment announced in about nine days.
That figure doesn't count Alaska LNG or the eight nuclear plants still being negotiated with South Korea.
"You build things. You don't have opinions," Susan said. That is why Elon Musk keeps launching rockets that blow up, because each failure teaches him how the universe works. Barbara added that Apollo returned an estimated $8 for every $1 invested.
Barbara also recalled NAWAPA, the great western water project Congress nearly adopted, as a record of "how we used to think" before environmentalism shut that thinking down.
The bottleneck is people. Mike Rowe says the country was already 300,000 electricians and machinists short for submarine work before Sparrows Point.
The gas and grocery questions came from every direction. Anne asked why the world's top oil producer pays world prices, and Charles asked about London speculators and record oil profits.
Jane, a single mom in Kansas, said she can't feel any boom, and retirees on fixed incomes asked why their budgets are still being eaten up.
Susan didn't dodge. The U.S. mostly produces light sweet crude, but our refineries were built for heavy crude. That mismatch comes from a 30-year globalist system built for profit, not sovereignty.
A new Texas refinery is about three years away. In the short term, the President is bringing in diesel from Europe and suspending the federal gas tax.
Barbara reminded viewers how we got here. As Bessent put it, Americans got run over by "a Mack truck" under Biden. The way out is the one Hamilton and McKinley used: tariffs and growth, so the productive economy outgrows the debt.
Then Susan named the real fight. The consultant class wants you to vote on what you feel today. Vote instead "as a citizen of a republic," for where you want this country to be in a year or two.
Several subscribers asked why the White House isn't louder. Barbara said the media block is complete. "It's not to ask the question, why aren't they doing more," she said. "It's, we ourselves have to do more."
Susan votes early, so Republican ballot chasers know she's covered and Election Day lines can't send her home. Decide what works for you, she said, then bring 10 others.
Don't like the names on your ballot? It's still a numbers game for the House, the Senate and the state legislatures. And after November 3, the Midterm Bootcamp gets a new name and keeps going.
"There's no end point to this fight," Susan said, "because there's no end point to man discovering how the universe works."
Get your 10 people. Barbara will close every show this way until the midterms, because if everybody makes it a mission, we win.
Then, when you and your 10 vote, follow Susan's line and "vote as a Promethean, not as an Epimethean." Promethean means forethought, and Epimethean means afterthought.
Connect with activists in your state and turn your 10 people into a plan, with 25 days to Election Day.
See you Thursday.
Adam Sturman
Producer, Promethean Action
https://x.com/AdamSturman23
Today's show is over. Watch the replay and join us next Thursday, LIVE. Trump is building the largest new US shipyard since World War II on an abandoned steel mill, and taxpayers get a 40% stake. Barbara and Susan explain why that wins the midterms.
London's Guardian is reeling: Flávio Bolsonaro's first-round win puts Latin America's nationalist sweep within reach after USAID's shutdown. Plus Trump revives Sparrows Point with a new shipyard, and why globalist financiers bankroll socialism.
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