{"id":3434,"date":"2026-07-22T14:44:06","date_gmt":"2026-07-22T14:44:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/interstatelogisticshubs.com\/?p=3434"},"modified":"2026-07-22T14:44:06","modified_gmt":"2026-07-22T14:44:06","slug":"trumps-july-16-speech-the-big-picture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/interstatelogisticshubs.com\/?p=3434","title":{"rendered":"Trump\u2019s July 16 Speech: The Big Picture"},"content":{"rendered":"
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President Trump\u2019s speech last Thursday, a few months before the 2026 midterms, was dull and boring, a disappointment to political enthusiasts. It paled before President Biden\u2019s flaming red pre-midterm speech of September 1, 2022, Battle for the Soul of the Nation, given right in front of Philadelphia\u2019s Independence Hall, as it should be.<\/p>

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All President Trump did was inform us of a few minor items, such as vulnerabilities in electronic voting, China getting access to the records of hundreds of millions of U.S. voters —\u00a0information that our devoted intelligence professionals thoughtfully redacted from presidential intelligence briefings —\u00a0and the curious case of non-citizens on the voter rolls. Nothing to see here, move right along.<\/p>\n

It is good to learn that by 2020 our intelligence professionals had re-professionalized themselves. In 2016, you will recall, they were unprofessionally eager to back the Russia, Russia narrative cooked up by the Clinton campaign.<\/p>\n

Of course, it is easy to see that the point of Trump\u2019s speech was to drum up more support for his explosive SAVE Act, which Senator Thune, whose state is close to Canadian wildfires, has sensibly put on the back burner.<\/p>\n

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\"\"<\/figure>\nBut I wonder if Sen. Thune will succeed. I suspect that the whole point of the president\u2019s speech was to ignite a wildfire of prosecutions and executive actions over the next few months related to election security. Presumably he and his aides,\u00a0staffers, and allies in Congress imagine that, confused by the thick smoke of election cheating, Congress will finally pass the SAVE Act and\/or Republican voters will be motivated to go to the polls.<\/p>\n

I understand the instinctive reluctance of the alphabet TV networks to broadcast the president\u2019s speech live. Although experts agree that the legacy media deploys the best minds in the business yet, like every human social institution, our beloved media magnates hesitate to do anything that might advance the cause of the racist-sexist-homophobe armed-insurrectionist supporters of President Trump and harm the glorious achievements of the administrative state and its worthy practitioners that have delivered so much to this nation over the last century.<\/p>\n

What is happening? Where is America going? What does it mean? Where will it all end up?<\/p>\n

I think the place to start is Martin Gurri\u2019s The Revolt of the Public<\/em>. Here\u2019s the Grok situation report.<\/p>\n