Joe LaVornier

We're learning that President Trump just this week was briefed on a range of military options that, as you mentioned, include conducting military strikes inside Venezuela itself.

Now, obviously, if the president decides to move forward with an option that includes military strikes inside Venezuela, that would be a dramatic escalation of the ongoing military campaign in Latin America.

Our understanding is at this stage, Donald Trump has not made a decision, though, how he intends to proceed.

We also know that in the past he has voiced some reservations about conducting strikes with the intention of ousting Venezuelan leader Nicolas Maduro.

At the same time, the Trump administration has gone to great lengths to try to connect Maduro to drug trafficking and drug traffickers that they have since declared to be enemy combatants and terrorists, and those have been the targets

of these 20 strikes these 20 military strikes that we've seen in international waters today and those strikes continue even as trump is mulling military options potentially for venezuela itself and we're also learning that behind closed doors the pentagon and military officials are really going to great lengths to try to connect these drug traffickers to this theory that they are effectively the same as terrorists and thus can be summarily killed without legal review

In a recent classified briefing, they were using phrases like enemy KIA to describe the some 80 individuals who have been killed in these strikes.

And as you mentioned, that's really raising some eyebrows with lawmakers who remember that phrase being used repeatedly in the war on terror to describe those individuals and terrorists killed in airstrikes in Afghanistan and Pakistan.

Obviously, some lawmakers wary of KIA.

conducting an operation under a similar pretense but still that does seem to be the way the trump administration is couching and casting this ongoing military operation in latin america this is the primal scream of a dying regime pray for our enemies because we're going medieval on these people

And where do people like that go to share the big lie?

Mega media.

I wish in my soul, I wish that any of these people had a conscience.

Thank you, Steve, for having me.

You had a perfect lead-in because what you want to do is create a supply-side productivity boom because that does a few things, which address head-on the affordability issue, which number one is if you get a productivity-led supply-side boom because you have 100% expensing of CapEx and you've got this innovative, novel 100% expensing for factories, which is going to be for the next decade,

three-plus years, that is going to encourage tremendous investment.

What that investment becomes encouraged is rising productivity.

When you have rising productivity, profits go up.

And what we learned from the first Trump administration and from the Reagan era is that when you have that capex boom occur, you get rising wages.

So nominal wages are going to surge as they were surging this year and as they surged under Trump's presidency.