Thread by @APhilosophae

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Psaki made a shit joke about treadmills that showed her elitist attitude towards regular Americans and those trying to get information out of this administration. But why do treadmills matter? Lets take a look...
foxbusiness.com/politics/psaki…

Few truly care about treadmills. It isnt something people are actually having a cow over right now. But they do give us keen insight into the current supply chain crisis if we take a further look. Initially, people will think well there must be a bunch of exercise equipment...

stuck on ships and in the containers at the ports. And the issue is that we have no way to get those things to the stores. While thats happening, thats not why treadmills matter. Treadmills matter because of what they are made of: pipe, steel, wire, & other functional materials.

Trump worked to bring back manufacturing. He did pretty good. But this administration has not concentrated on returning the manufacturing base to the US at all. On top of that we have failed to protect intellectual property from china, so they can make the same things we do.

By outsourcing the intellectual and functional capacity of your economy, you are quite literally giving away the bank. And in doing so you are ceding control of the current existence of your people, and the future reality they have to live in. Its controlled by outside forces.

American warehouses are months behind on steel inventory and this shortage is getting worse by the day. These supplies are what municipalities & private industry depend for infrastructure maintenance and any new construction. As things break, there is no way to fix your machines.

Take that pipe that the treadmill has in its structure. Thats made in China. Not the US. The current unavailability of steel pipe from China, who holds the largest market share even with a 30% manufacturing rejection rate, is slowing oil drilling globally. Every nation is hurt.

American oil drillers are having to come up with new solutions to this pipe shortage. Currently, they are devising a way to utilize non-standard pipe because that thats what they can find on the market.. That off-size pipe will take months to ship, pushing back drilling plans.

This means that already increasing oil prices are going to continue to climb. Largely, American steel mills no longer produce pipe due to our inability to compete with the Chinese system which has a running +25yr advantage (NAFTA) and no care for intellectual property rights.

This means that any (everyone) who utilize oil based products have to shift their spending to keep up with rising costs. Cuts have to happen within the system somewhere. And they do. China is also in the middle of a deepening energy crisis.

Steel manufacturing requires HUGE amounts of energy to manufacture. Chinas iron ore imports hit a 13 month low in July and guess what - It hasnt gotten any better. It's actually all just getting worse as one negative ripple creates the next.

Politicians don’t understand consequences. When Psaki laughs at the "tragedy of the treadmill" she's laughing at the failure of the worlds economic system. Iron, Steel, Ore, Energy, Shipping, Oil, Electronics and on and on. They're laughing at collapse. And its coming down on us.

So when I tell you treadmills matter, it isnt because I want you to hop on one and go for a walk. Its because the components that are required to manufacture one are going out of existence. <- Weird thought, right? We know how to make this stuff. And they're becoming nonexistent.

The next time you see store shelves that are empty in the electronics or sports section, you'll realize it isnt just bc those things are stuck in a port somewhere. They might be. But its bc we are losing the capacity globally to produce them. This is how civilizations disappear.