Forty years without a new refinery isn’t a market failure. It’s sabotage — and they’re riding diesel straight into November. Barbara and Susan map the choke points behind the pain, then hand you the ground-game assignment: get 10 to 15 people to the polls and make it too big to rig.
Today's live show has ended. Watch the replay and join us LIVE next Thursday Morning. Empire's midterm pain machine: diesel squeeze, Iran conflict, Carney's trade war, and the London AI scare. Barbara Boyd and Susan Kokinda take your questions.
Forget the campaign ads. Susan traces two coordinated fronts against Trump’s midterms: a pain machine of diesel prices, Iran, Canada’s tariffs and bond attacks — and an AI-apocalypse panic whose paper trail runs straight to London.
Ukraine, Diesel, AI, and the Election: What They Don't Want You to Know
Forty years without a new refinery isn’t a market failure. It’s sabotage — and they’re riding diesel straight into November. Barbara and Susan map the choke points behind the pain, then hand you the ground-game assignment: get 10 to 15 people to the polls and make it too big to rig.
President Trump delivers remarks to business leaders and embassy personnel at the official residence of the U.S. Ambassador to Ireland, Saturday, September 12, 2026, in Dublin.
Diesel prices. AI hysteria. Ukraine and the Mideast. A hostile Fed. Nobody is connecting them — so on Thursday we did. These are not separate crises. They are one operation to manufacture apocalypse before the midterms, break Trump's presidency, and break MAGA's spirit. Election Day is about 47 days out — under seven weeks.
This is an election hoax. — Barbara Boyd, on the AI apocalypse panic
We are in an all out war between two systems. The system that Donald Trump is fighting to restore — the American system — and the system that we fought our revolution against 250 years ago, the British system. — Susan Kokinda
REPLAY — Thursday, September 17th
The AI Apocalypse Is a Campaign Ad
Bernie Sanders and his British companions are running an AI panic play — a Democrat / British-intelligence-driven psyop. Barbara's read: classic rerun. Climate apocalypse, resource apocalypse, pandemic panic — expert-driven fear funneled into global regulation with no liability. AI is math. It's a tool. It is not a new God, no matter what Silicon Valley says.
David Sacks' punch: if you built Frankenstein, stop building it — and figure out your defenses.
JD Vance framed the flip side: data-center backlash, power bills doubling, blue states that refuse to build generation — while China generates three times the electricity we do. Power and nuclear are a midterm message, not a scare story.
40 Years Without a Refinery Is Sheer Sabotage
Gas prices? Part Iran war, part City of London price-setting. The fundamental is physical: America hasn't built a new refinery in 40 years. California has closed 30-plus. We export light crude and import heavy. Susan called it sheer sabotage — and warned the enemy will keep prices high straight into the midterms.
Zelenskyy bombing Russian diesel refining, Carney's trade war, and von der Leyen dangling a first-of-its-kind EU "associate" seat for Carney are pieces of the same board: the fourth incarnation of the British Financial Empire, run through choke points.
Barbara's process sheet is the tool: trace where the resource comes from, find the choke, and ask why shareholder-value oil companies won't invest in America First capacity.
The Enemy Shoots Back — Fed, Debt, and the $5,000 Question
Trump's tarmac clip on Kevin Warsh: a hostile Fed board, put there by others, voting unanimously against growth. Susan's frame — don't panic. The enemy shoots bullets back at you. That's the psychological and economic warfare underway right now.
On debt and the $5k: Hamilton called a national debt a blessing when it's used to build. Grow faster than the debt. Change the tire while the car is moving. Barbara: "We've gotta grow, baby grow along with drill, baby drill."
The Assignment: Ground Game
MAGA came out of the convention highly activated — that energy is enormous for November. Don't let attack-ad season pull you out of reality. Pull people into reality.
If you commit yourself to get 10 to 15 people to the polls, we're gonna win. And we're gonna win because we're gonna make it too big to rig. — Barbara Boyd
Organize, organize, organize. This midterm is won on the ground.
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Chief paralegal in the British/DOJ prosecution of LaRouche. Working to expose the treason against LaRouche and Trump. Lover of history, politics, literature, and Corgis. Married to a wise geometer.
Author, Michigan-based organizer, passionate student of Plato’s dialogues. Committed to reviving the industrial economy and producer culture of the Midwest and to educating grass-roots activists.
Today's live show has ended. Watch the replay and join us LIVE next Thursday Morning. Empire's midterm pain machine: diesel squeeze, Iran conflict, Carney's trade war, and the London AI scare. Barbara Boyd and Susan Kokinda take your questions.
Forget the campaign ads. Susan traces two coordinated fronts against Trump’s midterms: a pain machine of diesel prices, Iran, Canada’s tariffs and bond attacks — and an AI-apocalypse panic whose paper trail runs straight to London.
Trump’s industrial revival collides with demands to restrict AI. Mike examines Fetterman, Anthropic, Effective Altruism, and the battle over America’s economic future.
Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland’s first ministers push independence as Labour betrays Brexit. Carney’s Canada–Ukraine 100-year pact, EU associate talk, and rate-hike “noise” target Trump’s midterms.