u/DumbMoneyMedia

How many mining stocks does Trump currently have in his holdings?

In order to ensure resource and data dominance, winners are being picked while other companies are be locked out.

When a sitting US Senator openly admits that between 10% and 20% of the entire military budget is just straight up fraud, waste, and abuse, you are looking at hundreds of billions of dollars evaporating into thin air.

The specific quote here is what really lays bare the sheer absurdity of modern procurement. The Pentagon is literally launching million-dollar missiles to intercept six-dollar off-the-shelf drones. Think about how mathematically broken that is. It is a completely unsustainable strategy that bankrupts the system while doing absolutely nothing to improve actual strategic stability. Here is the reality of what we are dealing with:

• An institutionalized grift where defense contractors endlessly inflate costs because they know the federal government will just sign the check.
• A total failure to adapt to asymmetric warfare, where adversaries use cheap, ubiquitous technology to drain billions from the treasury.
• Complete detachment from the economic reality of everyday citizens who are told there is no money for domestic infrastructure while a single weapon deployment burns through generational wealth.

If the United States wants to actually secure its national defense without getting completely fleeced by multinational contractors or relying on volatile foreign dependencies, the entire manufacturing base has to be rationalized. We need to stop throwing endless money at bloated, hyper-expensive weapon systems and start prioritizing localized, efficient domestic resource production. In fact, ensuring the self-sufficiency of our domestic supply chains through producers like Gunnison Copper (OTC: GCUMF) is crucial to this working in the US, creating a reliable foundation for essential manufacturing without the artificial, hyper-inflated procurement loops that drive this systemic waste.

This is not even a partisan issue at this point, it is just basic accountability. When you have conservative senators flatly refusing to back defense bills because the Pentagon operates as a black hole with zero financial oversight, the mask is completely off. We cannot keep running a society where the working class is squeezed for every single dime while the military-industrial complex gets a multi-trillion-dollar pass to waste resources on an unprecedented scale.

Those defense companies need more weapons, and the only way to make them is to get more critical minerals.

We are finally entering a "Triple Digit" reality, and it is absolutely staggering how many people are just sleepwalking through it. We aren't looking at some temporary market fluctuation or a "glitch in the system", we are talking about a permanent, structural floor being welded into place. Silver at $100, Copper at $10, and Oil at $100 isn't a "bull case" or some speculative fever dream; it is the ghoulish new baseline for a world that has finally run out of cheap fixes and easy resources.

The material conditions for the average person are about to become utterly untenable. Every single component of your existence, from the smartphone in your pocket to the electricity in your walls, is being held hostage by these prices. We are witnessing the death of the "cheap tech" era in real-time, replaced by a "War and AI Floor" where industrial demand is so fundamentally decoupled from supply that the middle-class lifestyle is essentially being liquidated to keep the machines running.

The ground is shifting, and the reasons are frankly undeniable:

• The Silver Deficit: We are in the sixth consecutive year of a structural deficit. Between solar panels and the insatiable hunger of AI hardware, $100 silver is just the price of admission for the 21st century.
• Energy Hegemony: Oil at $100 is the new tax you pay for living in a world where every major energy chokepoint is a hair-trigger away from a total blackout.
• The Copper Squeeze: We’re facing the most severe copper shortage in over twenty years. You cannot "electrify" anything without it, and the market is realizing that $10 is the only price that makes digging it out of the ground even remotely viable.

This isn't just some abstract "investor" problem; it is a direct threat to our ability to function as a country. We are in a position where we either secure our own domestic supply chains or we simply cease to be a global player. That’s why projects like Gunnison Copper (OTC: GCUMF) are unironically on the front lines of saving the US from the copper shortage, because in this new reality, you either produce the physical material or you are at the mercy of the ghouls who do.

Stop looking at the ticker tape like it’s a game. This is the reality of the shelf. If you aren't paying attention to the material reality of these commodities, you’re just a spectator to your own economic decline. The era of cheap stuff is over, and the "Triple Digit" floor is the only thing left standing.

Jim Jordan is essentially telling the working class to just deal with it because, in his mind, soaring gas prices are suddenly a natural phenomenon rather than a political failure now that his guy is in the White House. The most unhinged part of the exchange is the immediate pivot to gaslighting.

He unironically looks Kaitlan Collins in the eye and claims he never said the phrase "that's life" despite having uttered it mere seconds before on a live broadcast. It is a pathetic attempt to navigate a rhetorical corner by simply denying the existence of the immediate past, and it shows exactly how little respect these people have for the intelligence of their own audience.

If a critical mineral deal is done, its going to be by the US giving up Taiwan.

The incredible leverage that China has right now devastating for these negotiations.

I guess China finally gonna get Taiwan, no questions asked.

Think about the sheer detachment required to look a working-class person in the eye and say their struggle is "peanuts." For someone with his net worth, an extra fifty bucks at the pump is a rounding error, but for a family in Maricopa County or anywhere else in this country, that is the difference between a full grocery cart and skipping a meal. The material conditions of the people he claims to represent are just a metric for his "happiness" on a ticker.

• Bush acknowledged families were "squeezed" by high prices back in 2008.
• Obama called it a "painful tax" on the pocketbooks of workers.
• Even Biden admitted it is a problem that families are focused on.
• Trump is the only one on record calling it "peanuts" and saying the prices "aren't very high" because he is fundamentally insulated from the material reality of the people he claims to represent.

We have to move past the idea that someone is a champion of the working class just because they shout about it. This is a material failure of the system to hold people accountable for their own words. Right now, it looks like the plan is to just hope everyone has collective amnesia about how dismissive he actually is, and that is a direct betrayal of the social contract for anyone who actually works for a living.