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Rod D. Martin

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Jun 6

🧵84 years ago this week, the Battle of Midway changed history.

But what if America had lost — as it very nearly did?

People have no idea how close we came to a Japanese victory that would have cost the Allies both the Pacific and Europe.

It was that close. 🧵

2/ Had Japan won at Midway, they would have destroyed three U.S. carriers while keeping their fleet intact.

Nothing could have stopped them from seizing key South Pacific islands, building airfields, and creating an impregnable defensive perimeter from Samoa to Midway to the Aleutians.

U.S. supply lines to Australia would have been severed. A Pacific offensive delayed until mid-1943 or later.

But that's just the beginning....

3/ An isolated, vulnerable Australia would have had to bring home its own critical troops from North Africa.

Their 7th Division was decisive at El Alamein. Without them, Britain likely would have lost the Suez Canal, the Mediterranean, and India.

Without options, Australia might have even been forced into a neutrality pact with Japan — trading raw materials for safety.

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Rod D. Martin

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Jun 4

🧵The EU is finally waking up: Donald Trump was right about China.

Europe’s industrial base could be obliterated in less than a decade by China’s predatory export machine.

Brussels ignored the warnings. Now they’re facing the consequences. 🧵

2/ China is doubling down on massive over-investment and dumping excess capacity on the world while pursuing autarky at home.

Effect: it's exporting deflation and unemployment as a means to stay in power by destroying your job.

The Rhodium Group warns this “China Shock 2.0” is bigger and more sophisticated than the first one that hollowed out America’s Rust Belt.

3/ Europe is the soft target this time.

China runs a €1 billion DAILY trade surplus with the EU. Without action, the deficit could hit €500 billion by 2027.

As Trump’s tariffs blocked China from flooding the U.S. market, the tsunami of cheap goods shifted to Europe — hitting Germany, France, and beyond with devastating force.

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Rod D. Martin

@RodDMartin

Jun 2

🧵Leftist, progressive lawyers are fleeing the Trump administration in large numbers.

According to the NYT, more than 10,000 have left federal agencies since the beginning of 2025, according to a New York Times analysis.

The federal government has lost an incredible 17% of its civilian lawyers in just 15 months. Bwuhahahahahaha!

This isn’t random attrition. It’s a self-revelation. 🧵

2/ The numbers are stark.

The Department of Education lost more than half its lawyers. The Departments of Housing and Urban Development, Labor, Energy, and Agriculture all saw steep declines. DOJ is down 24%.

The Deep State saboteurs are leaving. Trump is getting to replace them. But he's hiring fewer.

Despite agencies hiring about 3,200 lawyers during this period, departures still vastly outpaced recruitment.

3/ There's one major exception.

The Department of Homeland Security increased its legal staff by 21% as the administration ramped up immigration enforcement.

The agencies most focused on Trump’s core priorities — border security and reducing regulatory overreach — are either holding steady or growing.

The ones most aligned with the old administrative state are emptying out.

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Rod D. Martin

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Jun 2

🧵Is Scott Bessent working to crash the yuan?

He helped break the Bank of England in 1992. Now Trump’s Treasury Secretary is using that experience against China — and Beijing should be terrified.

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2/ In 1992, Scott Bessent was part of the Soros team that broke the pound.

Britain was defending an exchange rate reality no longer supported. The speculators attacked. The Bank of England lost.

Trump watched. He learned the lesson.

Governments don’t lose currencies because traders are clever. They lose them because they defend lies too long.

3/ Bessent recently described China’s economy as the most imbalanced in modern history.

Trapped in deflation. Desperately trying to export its way out. Its own people don’t trust the yuan — they want their money out, but the CCP won’t let them.

Bessent's words aren't normal economic commentary. They're a lesson in the anatomy of a currency regime under terminal pressure.

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Rod D. Martin

@RodDMartin

Jun 1

🧵New Orleans just proved failing schools can be fixed at scale.

It became America’s first all-charter school district.

The results are staggering:

• 99th percentile nationally in reading growth
• 98th percentile in math growth
• The only state in America beating pre-pandemic levels in both subjects

This is what real reform looks like. THREAD 🧵

2/ Before Hurricane Katrina, the system was a disaster.

Over 60% of New Orleans public schools were rated failing. Kids attended chaotic, dangerous schools where constant disruptions made real learning almost impossible.

A generation was being failed by design.

Then the storm hit — and everything changed.

3/ New Orleans didn’t tinker. It transformed.

The state took over the worst schools, converted the entire district to charters, eliminated neighborhood attendance zones, and gave families real school choice.

Thousands of underperforming teachers and staff were fired. Corruption and low standards were confronted directly.

It was radical. It worked.

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Rod D. Martin

@RodDMartin

May 29

🚨 A generational Republican majority just became possible.

The Supreme Court ended racial gerrymandering, throwing dozens of artificial Democrat House seats into play.

But the 2030 Census is the real hammer — and it could lock in Republican control of the map for decades.

The structural advantage Democrats built for years is collapsing. 🧵

2/ Democrats built their power on three structural frauds:

• A rigged 2020 Census that stole House seats and electoral votes from red states.
• Counting illegal aliens for congressional apportionment and electoral votes.
• Racial gerrymandering that guaranteed them extra safe seats.

The Court just eliminated #3. The other two are on borrowed time. And the American people are already finishing the job by voting with their feet.

3/ The 2020 Census was a Deep State operation.

The Bureau's own post-enumeration survey showed it undercounted Texas, Florida, Arkansas and other red states — while overcounting New York, Massachusetts, Minnesota and other blue ones.

Net result: at least 15 House seats and 16 electoral votes shifted to Democrats.

They admitted the count was materially false… then said “too late to fix it.”

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