Ken

Catholic Christian ✝️ Dad. Retired SAR member and rocket scientist 🚀. Mountaineer, rock/ice climber, sometimes a ranch hand. Independent voter.

[Ken @Kjschulte1992]

✨Absolutely excellent! @SecScottBessent is awesome 💫🔥
As @fitz_keith would say, "We are in the 6th Wave." Get your boggie board out. You've got to be in to WIN.

[Treasury Department @USTreasury]

WATCH IN FULL: @SecScottBessent Extended Interview on The @Axios Show

[100% All American @lin68279]

We were told Trump was a liar.
All this evidence proves WE WERE LIED TO by our own democrat party leaders and representatives.
This president deserves an apology from the DNC as well as an apology to all of us democrats they lied to!!
@DNC @SenSchumer @SpeakerPelosi @RepJeffries

[Ken @Kjschulte1992]

🔥You can't fix 4 years of record-setting FAILURE in 2 years of record-setting SUCCESS.
See @CharlesHurt, @JHoganGidley, and @larry_kudlow discuss affordability ahead of the midterm elections.

https://t.co/7JMoUbyNry

@SenSchumer @RepJeffries @AOC @SenSanders like to talk about affordability, but fail to take ownership of the failed Biden administration policies from 2021-2025 and fail to provide an actual democratic plan.

Finger-pointing, DEI, woke, and DCA policies will not win elections. Democrats need a plan other than tearing down the U.S. economy and social fabric.

[Ken @Kjschulte1992]

💡Domestic Diesel Prices 🚜📶

EIA’s September 2026 outlook:
→ Global distillate shortage
→ Higher global diesel prices
→ Stronger incentive for U.S. refiners/traders to export
→ Lower U.S. inventories
→ Higher U.S. diesel prices

EIA explicitly says that tight global distillate markets are incentivizing U.S. exports and that low U.S. inventories contribute to higher domestic diesel prices.

@SecScottBessent @larry_kudlow @BillOReilly @POTUS @NEWSMAX @NewsNation @SenateGOP @HouseGOP @LeaderJohnThune @JesseBWatters
@realDonaldTrump @VP @federalreserve @DavidBahnsen @JohnFMauldin @DiMartinoBooth

Root Cause:
1. Middle East refinery/export disruptions are the biggest shock. Iran War
2. Russia has simultaneously lost refinery output and diesel exports. Ukraine War
3. Chinese refinery/export availability has been weaker, with Beijing deliberately restricting refined-fuel exports to protect domestic supply.
4. The rest of the world's refineries are already running hard. U.S. refinery utilization recently approached 97% and has been flat over the last decade.
5. Demand is adding pressure, but isn't the fundamental problem.

The scale of the supply disruption is substantial. The IEA reported that global seaborne diesel/gas oil exports averaged about 4.7 million b/d during the first eight months of 2026, roughly 10% lower than a year earlier. In August alone, diesel exports from Russia, the Middle East, and Asia were approximately 1.3 million b/d lower YoY, equivalent to roughly 20% of normal global seaborne diesel trade.

Bottom line:
Global distillate shortage is the root cause. Do not expect domestic diesel (or gas) prices to drop until after the Middle East, Russian, and Chinese refineries begin to export for global demand. As U.S. diesel prices rise sufficiently, exporting becomes less attractive because the domestic price approaches the export netback. That price convergence is how a freely traded commodity market allocates the available barrels.

Long-term price stability depends on a stable supply.

[Ken @Kjschulte1992]

Just to recap . . . 5 of 6 promises kept.
You can't end a war if you are the third party and the primary parties don't want to compromise. @POTUS @realDonaldTrump
Just saying

[Ken @Kjschulte1992]

💡Affordability

The chart shows the price level (blue CPI index) rising sharply from early 2021 and continuing upward through 2026 even after the year-over-year rate (red) fell from its mid-2022 peak near 9 percent back toward 3–3.5 percent. That pattern is why affordability remains worse: the cumulative index increase of roughly 28 percent from January 2021 to August 2026 is locked in, and slower subsequent inflation does not reverse it.

The FOMC’s 2021 delayed reaction contributed to the size and persistence of that jump. When inflation went above 4 percent in April 2021 and 5 percent in May, the funds rate stayed near zero, and asset purchases continued. This is when the FOMC should have reacted instead of pushing the transitory story. Households, supported by earlier relief payments and then the March 2021 American Rescue Plan, rotated demand sharply toward goods (cars, appliances, furniture, electronics) while services remained constrained. Global supply chains were already impaired by factory shutdowns, port congestion, and semiconductor shortages; delivery times and backlogs lengthened through the first half of 2021. Energy and used-vehicle prices rose especially fast and contributed disproportionately to the monthly CPI prints in April and May.

Retrospective simulations (San Francisco Fed, Peterson Institute) estimate that moderately earlier tightening (April 2021) would have lowered the peak and the cumulative rise by on the order of 5 percentage points, at the cost of higher unemployment. The larger share of the acceleration is traced to the interaction of fiscal transfers, reallocated demand toward goods, energy and supply-chain shocks, and labor-supply shortfalls linked to extended school and workplace restrictions.

Once the price level had stepped up, the later hiking cycle (starting a year too late, March 2022) slowed the rate of further increase (red) but left the higher level in place (blue)—the shaded “affordability” region on the chart. The delayed FOMC reaction amplified and prolonged the problem.

In summary, we are still feeling the effects of Bidenomics and will for the rest of our lives.😡 The only thing that can reverse the increase in cumulative inflation is a deep recession or a massive increase in GDP.
@federalreserve @larry_kudlow @Varneyco @SecScottBessent #KevinWarsh #ArthurLaffer @StephenMoore @marcthiessen

[Ken @Kjschulte1992]

Actually

[TV News Now @TVNewsNow]

🚨 NEW: Fox’s @MarcThiessen just laid out the IRONY on the midterms: “As your polling shows, the number one issue for Americans across — in Texas, in Iowa, everywhere else — is cost of living. The irony is that most of the cost of living, the higher prices that Americans are paying, are due to Biden-era inflation, not to Donald Trump.”

“If you look at the consumer price index, consumer prices, they’ve gone up 27.2 percent over the last five and a half years, from January 2021 until today. That means that something you bought when Joe Biden took office in January 2021, something that cost $100, now costs $127.”

“Of that $27, $21 happened under Biden — 80 percent of it. So what’s happened is Americans are upset because they’re looking and saying, “I’m paying almost 30 percent more for everything right now than I did just a few years ago.” But most of that is Biden-era inflation that has been locked in.”

“Now, Trump has contributed to it, but at a much lower rate. Inflation is about 3.3 percent, which is around the historic average going back to 1954. But the Biden-era prices have not reverted back to pre-Biden levels, and so Americans are frustrated,” he tells @BretBaier.

[Ken @Kjschulte1992]

St. Augustine said “Our hearts are restless until they rest in God.”

[Ken @Kjschulte1992]

And that’s why it’s called cumulative inflation.

Great example @aj_inapi

[AJ Inapi (Allan) @aj_inapi]

Democrats are screaming AFFORDABILITY and blaming it on President Trump. So let's look at WHO the real culprits are.

Politicians lie. Numbers don't.

Take $100 in January 1993 and track the cumulative U.S. price level:

Clinton: $100 → $123 | +$23
Bush: $123 → $148 | +$25
Obama: $148 → $170 | +$22
President Trump: $170 → $183 | +$13 (EVEN with Covid)

Then look what happened:

🚨 BIDEN: $183 → $223 | +$40

The biggest jump on this timeline - in ONE four-year term.

President Trump, second term through Aug. 2026:
$223 → $235 | +$12

Official BLS data show the broader CPI price level rose about 21.4% from January 2021 to January 2025. Since January 2025, it has risen roughly 5.4% through August 2026.

And here's what people MUST understand:

Lower inflation does NOT mean Biden-era price increases disappear.

Prices don't reset when administrations change. They STACK.

$100 → $123 → $148 → $170 → $183 → 🚨 $223 → $235

Americans are right to be angry about affordability.

But if we're going to talk about WHEN the price level exploded, LOOK AT THE NUMBERS.

Figures are CPI-equivalent purchasing-power comparisons, not a literal grocery basket. Latest BLS CPI available: August 2026.

I'm not sure about ya'll but I'd REPOST this so everyone can see the lies of the Democrats.

[AJ Inapi (Allan) @aj_inapi]

SOME OF YOU NEED TO HEAR THIS:

President Trump is the President. He is not your personal financial manager.

It's not President Trump's fault that you:

• Bought a $70K truck on an 84-month loan you couldn't afford.
• Carry $15K in credit-card debt buying wants instead of needs.
• DoorDash dinner while complaining groceries are expensive.
• Upgrade your $1,200 phone every two years.
• Pay for 7 subscriptions you barely use.
• Took a mortgage at the absolute limit the bank would approve.
• Spend thousands every year on alcohol, vaping, gambling or other habits.
• Take vacations on credit and pay for them for the next 18 months.
• Never built an emergency fund when times were good.
• Increased your lifestyle every time your income increased instead of building assets.

Yes, housing is expensive. Groceries are expensive. Insurance is expensive. Healthcare is expensive.

Government policy matters.

But PERSONAL DECISIONS matter too.

No President can sign an Executive Order fixing 20 years of your financial habits.

Sometimes Washington needs accountability.

Sometimes the person in the mirror does too.

[Ken @Kjschulte1992]

Finally, after I've been beating the drum for 4 years, folks are starting to understand that #cumulativeinflation is what kills affordability. See @larry_kudlow guest @marcthiessen. Start about 3:00 into the conversation.

https://t.co/dRL4mJQlXm

Spread the word: prices are not going down. Thanks Joe; not! Democrats suck at economics.

[🇺🇸Steve2A🇺🇸God🇺🇸Family🇺🇸Country🇺🇸 @lakemonstercl1]

Dr. Ben Carson nailed it: if they control your healthcare, they control you. The New Democrat Party/DSA campaign slogan is Medicare for All. It isn’t compassion. It’s the foundation of socialism. The people pushing it will never live under the same system they force on you.

America was built on “what can I do,” not “take care of me from cradle to grave.”

Listen to Ben. Socialism’s ultimate goal is communism. Voting red is the only way to save our country.

[Ken @Kjschulte1992]

Absolutely brilliant!! 🔥🔥 Outstanding, Jack.

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[The United Spot @TheUnitedSpot__]

America Can’t Handle the TRUTH!

[Ramin Ekhtiar @raminrealtalk]

THE UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT JUST PUT THIS ON NATIONAL TELEVISION DURING THE NFL GAMES.

“This is the final battle with you at my side.
We will demolish the deep state.
We will expel the warmongers from our government.
We will drive out the globalists.
We will cast out the communists, Marxists, and fascists.
We will throw off the sick political class that hates our country.
We will rout the fake news media,
and we will liberate America from these villains once and for all.”

PAID FOR BY THE U.S. GOVERNMENT.

Not a campaign.
Not a PAC.
The actual United States government.

They’re not working us over anymore.
We’re working them over.

This is the final battle.
And it’s live on national TV.

[Ken @Kjschulte1992]

And that is real power 💫

[Larry Dean @larry_mcwethy]

Trump reportedly rejected Iran’s proposal to reopen the Strait of Hormuz for seven days.

But why?

The deeper story may be bigger than Iran or Hormuz — with Iraq, Syria, the Mediterranean, energy routes and global power all connected.

What if the real battle is over who controls the routes **after** Hormuz? 👀
Trump's far ahead of those who keep trying to stop him at every turn.