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And with a 20:1 young female to male ratio there, we can start issuing mommy visas to blonde Ukrainian chicks who come over and pop out the kids for MAGA men.

We don't really know who has minerals and who doesn't, because they use them for the Hegelian conflict fodder and panic news, lie about them, claim they are in shortage, use them to leverage currencies and economies etc. etc. Apparently Oregon has an enormous stash of rare earth minerals that have never been mined or exploited.

CA got tons of rare earth minerals. One of the biggest in SoCal a decade ago got shut down. The total cost of these, I guess is still around $1 per laptop!

RMolotovCocktail says

And with a 20:1 young female to male ratio there, we can start issuing mommy visas to blonde Ukrainian chicks who come over and pop out the kids for MAGA men.

Viktoria Apanasenko, Miss Universe Ukraine 2022.

Al_Sharpton_for_President says

We have it all in abundance, just not allowed to mine it. The National Park and Forest system is great for recreation, but there's a boat load of shit in the ground and the eco pussies have a fit.

If we can get it for pennies on the dollar and not ship it across the ocean, that's a win. While our labor is more expensive, we have better means of getting it out of the ground. Don't want to go scorched earth like China, but we could do 10% and not have to rely on them for the product.

https://www.coffeeandcovid.com/p/preparedness-monday-october-27-2025

Late last night, Reuters ran a story headlined, “Trump strikes deals on trade, critical minerals in Southeast Asia.” The President’s unscheduled stop in Kuala Lumpur, wedged in between Vietnam and the Philippines, wasn’t surprise sightseeing— it was a strategic ambush. Trump’s team inked four unexpected trade and mining agreements that put new pieces on the rare-earth chessboard, hardening America’s claim on critical minerals while leaving Beijing staring across the table at a shrinking pile of pieces. ...

But he did it again. Trump just landed critical minerals deals with four Southeast Asian countries —minerals badly needed to provide options during negotiations with China— without months or years of diplomatic seesawing, without swarms of State Department striped-pantsers, and without anyone knowing it was coming until just before the ink was on the paper. ...

Not only that, but also over the weekend, with the new leverage from Trump’s new Asian deals, Scott Bessent’s negotiating team and their Chinese counterparts announced a preliminary framework for a US-China trade deal, which will push back China’s threatened rare-earth (magnets) sanctions by a year. ...

This turnabout led the New York Times to post a top-of-page article grudgingly conceding Trump is doing some things right. “Without question,” the Times allowed, after spending nine months questioning everything, “Mr. Trump has enjoyed some substantial second-term foreign policy victories.”

Patrick says

But he did it again. Trump just landed critical minerals deals with four Southeast Asian countries —minerals badly needed to provide options during negotiations with China— without months or years of diplomatic seesawing, without swarms of State Department striped-pantsers, and without anyone knowing it was coming until just before the ink was on the paper.

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