Exactly. And don't fall for "shipped from the USA" either. That just means some fucking Chinese company rented a warehouse in the US so they can manufacture in China, ship to the US, and mail out from the warehouse. It's a fucking scam and it should be illegal.
Or even worse- an American cuck buys Chinese product DIRECT from the sweatshop in China and it is shipped to an Amazon warehouse In the USA where they will literally hold all the product for you. Cucks trying to start a “online re-sell” business are doing this all over the USA. Source- I know flaming libs that are doing this, there’s classes for it online and shit
Amazon filters are not even filters. Just suggestions from marketing. Sort price low to high and every 4 items there's a sponsored row of high priced crap.
our rare earth mines have been shut down by the EPA for a while making it so China has a monopoly on that industry. So it makes sense on why its all over there.
MP Materials, which operates the largest rare earth element mines in the Western Hemisphere, had a big week.
It was one of three companies on Nov. 17 to receive Defense Department grants intended to return rare earth production to the United States. The following day it was listed on the New York Stock Exchange.
The Pentagon awarded a Defense Production Act Title III grant worth $9.6 million to MP Materials so it can begin to refine the strategic minerals at its Mountain Pass, California, mine.
“This grant from the DoD is outstanding. It's humbling. And we're very proud of the fact that DoD is supporting us,” James Litinsky, the company's CEO, told National Defense in an interview.
The Mountain Pass mine is the largest producer of rare earth elements in the Western Hemisphere and constitutes 15 percent of the world’s production of the minerals, which are essential to manufacture high performance magnets. China currently has a near monopoly on refining the elements and producing the magnets, which are used in a variety of weapon systems as well as commercial goods such as wind turbines and electric vehicles.
On Sept. 30, President Donald Trump signed Executive Order 13817, which — among other items — seeks to return rare earth production to the United States and break China’s dominance over the supply chain.
For computers, a decent choice is Fujitsu... they DO NOT trust the Chinese, so you'll get components from other asian countries... Vietnam, Malaysia, Korea. Of course there will always be some chinese components, because some stuff is only made there... but at least Fujitsu uses chinese shit as a last resort.
If you can't find what you're looking for made in the USA, then definitely try to buy from countries that aren't China or controlled by China at the very least.
That’s because you’re on Amazon... Hit a Duck Duck Go search for what you’re looking for made in the USA. Very rare I don’t find several good USA made options for anything. Often when looking back Amazon does not have what I find through search, so I just pay the shipping and move along. Likely canceling Prime for this reason
Good thinking. If this doesn't work well, we can make our own lists. Maybe later our own app. At the same time, that type of infrastructure further strengthens our ability to say FU to leftists cancel culture NPCs and their corporate hostages.
Early on in the tariff trade war with China, the big sellers on Speddit in the Amazon forums were saying that their manufacturers all offered to transship through other countries to avoid the high tariffs.
We need to get a handle on that and bring back manufacturing here. Why is it so much cheaper to make stuff there then ship it 6000 miles? Labor costs cant be the only thing
Labor is a huge factor. And risks of unionizing. Health Insurance.
The number one largest expenditure of any company is labor. By a large margin.
It's hard to find investors that will put capitol in your company if you have razor thin margins. That's why China is able to crank shit out. Banks/investors roll them because their profit spreads are usually huge because of the near slave labor.
Born and raised in a blue collar family in Detroit and was indoctrinated
regarding unions. Once again, I heard the unpatriotic self-absorbed
(all about me) blather from the union bosses on talk radio regarding
the presidential election and their support for Joe Biden. And once
again, these gullible ignoramuses will take it in their backside by the
deep state, who don't give a shit about them or their unions, only
their votes.
Shipped from the USA is nice because you don't have to wait several months for something to arrive direct from China. As much as I hate buying from China, some things I use can only be bought from there. Not necessarily a scam, depends on how it's advertised.
Not necessarily a scam, depends on how it's advertised.
Yes, that's a fair point. The ads I'm seeing on Facebook are scams, because they're even stealing the photographs of small creators to sell cheap knock-offs. But I used to deal with a fabric company in China, and they were upfront that their American warehouses were for convenience/time.
I'm with you 100% about boycotting China and buying Made in the USA whenever possible. It should be noted that the global elites arent worried about profit. What they're trying to gain control of is debt of countries. If you control the debt, you control the country. We need to get America out of debt from these tyrants and become self sufficient. By not supporting Chinese goods, is a good start to becoming independent.
Everyone needs to understand this , it’s not about money to these people. Power power power and more power. The only way America gets out of debt is by destroying the Federal Reserve btw
Theres an old doc called The Money Masters, it was one of my first redpills. It was about returning to precious metals. However the guy who did the doc changed his opinion and wrote a book with a doc to go with it called "the secret of oz" about a debt free fiat currency carefully issued into circulation.
Globalists print the money out of thing air with debt attached on creation, it's fractional reserve, enriches those in the game, fucks everyone else over since it's inception.
Yes! We have an army, we can do it all. Bannon is 1 man and a 2 hour show. HES not going to talk about tucker because he has to focus. We are the equivalent of 10,000 Bannons. We can do it all.
I don't think 'The Great Reset' means the same to them as it does to most people who hear it. They're not looking to put everyone on equal ground, they're looking to put everyone who isn't them at 0, and keep them there, forever working away.
They're trying to 'reset' the economic system from free-market capitalism to zero property communism, where government owns everything and you need permission from them to do or use anything.
They want to 'reset' the global population back down to a manageable number, not so few as to be unable to provide their luxuries, but not so many as to be able to revolt. A good shepherd has to keep his flock at a manageable size, and the unruly and rebellious have to be culled.
Obviously they want to 'reset' your 2nd Amendment. That ties into the above, with a gun, any sheep becomes a wolf they can't see. We all think we know how much they hate 2A, but honestly, I don't think we can even imagine. It might be the only real thing stopping them from just saying 'fuck it' and plowing ahead anyway.
Communications, Internet access, all that has to be 'reset'. It'd be like all those shitty government sites, we'd be assigned numbers to log in to the internet, be allowed only on approved pages, all messages and communications recorded and checked real-time.
And there's a thousand other things that need to be 'reset', I'm sure we can all think of dozens right away. 'The Great Reset' is actually trillions of little resets. The only thing that doesn't get reset is them.
You're absolutely right. The Great reset in short is about rolling back the industrial revolution. Making 99.99% of humanity nothing but serfs and vassals that belong to fiefdoms. The 1% get to be the aristocrats and lord it over us. I think all the evidence we need that they hate us and want to punish us is what Democrat governors are doing to Thanksgiving. My Lefty family is saying "Oh, if we give up Thanksgiving to flatten the curve, we'll have Christmas!" Wait for it. They'll come down even harder against Christmas. New Year's is okay though as long as we serfs celebrate with Antifa by destroying mainstreet.
Pathetic family. They are so grateful to be sold back what they had all along. A very dangerous mentality. Shifts power from The People to the government. Rights turn into privileges. They have no idea what this Country was founded on.
Well, they're my family and it's the only one I'll ever have and I love them but there's no reasoning with them. A lot of my family won't even talk to me anymore. So yeah, they are that pathetic, some of them. Just another reason why I left Minneapolis.
I'm sorry about your family pede. I wonder what the civil war will be like because it seems everyone is willing to go for any commie their family excluded. If we all exclude our cucked familes there would be no one left to fight except those who get riled up enough to stand in our way.
The Great reset in short is about rolling back the industrial revolution.
Yet for some reason they call it the oncoming fourth industrial revolution. There's no progress being made when you own nothing and according to them will be happy.
For what it's worth, I had a friend 20 years ago who had served on the boards of various huge NGOs and foundations. He was also an elected public official (state executive branch). We were walking and talking one day about a range of things of mutual interest. He said to me that it was necessary in his view to cull 90% of the human population "so that the rest of us could then have more."
It was one of those moments where my jaw dropped and flapped and my vocal cords went all paralyzed. I was gob smacked, as we used to say in Philly.
When I finally found my voice I said to him, that's interesting, who gets to make the decision about who lives and dies.
Well, he said, WE do, since we're the smart ones on the side of what is true and correct.
I replied, "Oh, you're saying I get to be part of the team that makes that choice?"
Yes, he said.
I replied, "Well neat. I choose that you die, because you are 30 years older than me, and I want your stuff, also you have those medical problems we've been discussing that are costly."
He visibly blanched, then turned beet red. Never spoke to me again after that. I didn't care. It was an incredible wakeup call for me.
He is still in office. In his 80s. Democrat. In his mind, the New Order means that HE will get power while denying it to others. It told me all I needed to know about what his sort of politician thought and meant by certain codewords.
Everything in your lives will be a subscription. You will rent everything and own nothing. Can't make a payment, stuff immediately gets turned off. Wrong speak, cut off, wrong think, cut off. Online information access in total government control, and paper information will be eliminated, you know because of spooky flu transmission.
Learn to repair stuff. Not the easiest thing to do with today's electronics, but every lamp fixed, every clock fixed, every hand soap dispenser refilled is trash kept out of a landfill and money kept out of the CCPs pocket.
That’s the ends game- basically State protected monopolies with zero competition (think Soviet Russia). One or two companies per industry that dominate the entire country. Would be fucking horrible
That place would be great if they didn’t resort to the over the top racism and anti-semitism like a bunch of edge lords. Not the BS stuff that they call Conservatives racist for. Like hard r straight vile racism. Not consuming BS is cool though
Buy a little bitcoin every week, $20 or $50. It will average out over the long run. Can invest it it on Robinhood, but you won't own the coins, can't spend them, but to build wealth it will work.
kind of. You can avoid directly giving money to China by buying used hardware. Thankfully most games nowadays don't need the newest hardware unless eye candy is cranked up. Any quad core sandy bridge on up will play most things, and haswell-up will play VR, and used Pascal 1070+ cards are good for most 1080p
Then there's classic games. I have an offline computer I built 15 years ago that runs some of my favorite games of all time. It'll be a sad day when that rig goes down.
My PC is 6 years old and all I've replaced is a PSU. You don't need to upgrade them as often as you did 20 years ago. Leaps in performance are smaller and further apart.
End the Fed. Its credit that facilitates our slavery.
Capitalism is built on capital, which is SAVED money.
Fed printer go brrrrrrrr has led us where we are today bc it has made people forget cost-benefit analysis, which everyone used to have to do before credit was widely available.
I wonder if hell ever get into this debt facilitates tyranny discussion on his show. He hints at it, but tries super hard to stay non partisan to protect his business (and employees, of course).
Ive had the same android phone for three years and an iphone (that needs a new screen) that's even older that I could use. I even have a burner flip phone lol.
Do you also recommend shopping for what you need or want from Goodwill's and Salvation Army's and all of the independent consignment/thrift shops just to keep money from reaching Chicom's hands? Just asking for a friend.
I have purchased everything from my 1918 knabe grand piano to bowls and books at Salvation Army. Sure - there is some junk but also a lot of great useable stuff...
A friend of mine also only purchased her kids clothes at Salvation Army because kids grow out of clothes quickly...
I've found good stuff at secondhand stores, just be aware that they're turning a massive profit due to tax breaks and reselling items that were donated to them for free.😉 Fwiw, garage/rummage sales are the way to go. Craigslist, depending on what you're buying and if you know your market.
This is my main strategy. Also utilize Craigslist and Facebook (I know) Marketplace. Facebook is also good for joining local community groups. A lot of times I see people posting about something they need, give a price range and people reply to help out. Lots of times for less or free. I know there are alternatives to Facebook for local groups like this, just haven't had time to check them out.
Where I live there are a lot of individually owned secondhand stores. They're small businesses just like anyone else. Of the big chains, I've heard Goodwill is kind of a scam as far benefitting the needy, but Salvation Army is on the up and up. Or so I've heard.
Wow I had no idea these sites existed. Even better is Made in the USA. Using products grown here, processed here, and shipped from here. Never accept anything less if you want to buy USA. The prices may be more expensive but they reflect what the product is actually worth. (With fair pay and work practices)
I use youtube for fixing stuff. Saved a ton repairing my dishwasher when it just needed the chopper to be cleaned. And we fixed my car window that fell off the track.
When I was a kid my family has always been one of those "make it last" type. Mostly my father. Driving the same car for 20 years, using the same TV for 15 years, the same HAM radio for 50 years, etc. Before corporatists began whoring themselves out to China they used to build to last... These days you're lucky to get 2 years out of a Microwave. Heck I still use a 50 year old Kenmore microwave. It's older than me and I've seen it in the kitchen every day of my life.
This is why as a Gen Zer, i'm going to search for as much antique stuff as I possibly can or at least stuff that is very minimalistic and simple. I'm not gonna waste my money on newer junk.
If you're patient, you can load out an entire workshop just in good old American vintage tools, for very little money. Learn to true up / tune up / repair older versions of new things, and you can save money on the niceties. For example, the oldest kerosene heaters like the Reddy Heater torpedo heaters and the common keroheat radiants, even if they're beat up, are dead simple to fix and cheap to run. Old small engines tend to be rebuildable, and often just have clogged carburetors. No need to spend money on new shit with a few skills in repair and an analytical mind.
And if you don't have an analytical mind, dogged determination and fearlessness will still get you very far.
repairing things is objectively more environmentally friendly than buying new stuff. Yet they want you to buy the new "green" car, the new "green" fridge, the new "green" iphone that doesn't even come with a charger and forces you to make more polution making more boxes and more weight to carry around the globe on ships.
"Oh, but it would be so hard to take our invoices and copy paste the legally required import information that we already have and put it up on the website!"
Exactly. Doesn’t count if the ‘manufacture’ was putting a wrapper on it.
And just post an image of the legally required label. Some products on Amazon have photos of the label... I always look to see if I can spot the origin.
I used to buy everything from Amazon, but I have canceled my Prime subscription and I haven't purchased anything from there for four months. If I can't find the product I want locally, I usually go to Amazon to look for the product I want and then I search the internet for a comparable, made in the U.S.A. product from other online retailers. It is much easier than I thought it would be. There are tons of businesses who are in competition with Amazon. You just have to look.
I used to browse Amazon and plan future purchases for dumb crap I was going to buy next. After their Amazon Prime social media team on Facebook said “well, see you at the polls” in response to some feedback, I instantly stopped visiting Amazon as a matter of habit. I’ve ordered maybe one or two things from them in the last couple months.
Feels good to support either local businesses or even just more specialized retailers like Home Depot.
If anyone is wondering how to get books from somewhere that isn’t Amazon owned, check out bookstore.org They are indie and give money back to a larger fund for local bookstores. Be wary of pretty much all other book sellers online. Even AbeBooks is amazon owned but they don’t make that known.
Either that, or the item can be bought from another internet vendor. You can easily avoid Amazon and order directly from the vendors website, which are often mentioned on Amazon.
100% right!!! Try it for a week or two. It is nearly impossible especially with electronics and shoes. But if you do it the stuff you buy, while expensive, will last a whole lot longer.
I get 2-5 years of heavy wear out of my Danner boots.
Facing the china problem with my kids though. I don't want to spend $100+ every year per kid as they keep outgrowing them, but I'm about ready to start.
Danner could be too for all I know, it's way too damn easy to hide that the components aren't made in America if they just stitch them together in a warehouse somewhere.
Yup, shoes is the best investment i ever did. I would walk through a pair of Chinese shoes minimum 3 months and wore out. I bought a nice pair of cowboy boots and those last me almost 3 years now
I agree, but Gen X is probably the last generation that prefers brick and mortar stores. I've passed on many things when I saw them in person, or saw that the sizing was way off. The drive up/curbside seems to be popular, so hopefully that will support the brick and mortar stores to remain relevant to the younger generations.
hard to do when they close all the other stores. I'm already in a soft bug-in mode, I go straight to work and come straight back and have everything I need to last the dark winter. this is no way to live. this is what real tyranny looks and feels like
indeed, that's also part of the problem. it seems that nobody wants to talk about this outside of the donald. I know there are millions upon millions of patriots that feel like I do but in public its like some kind of freak social experiment everyone is just afraid. they're all just afraid.
I work in the trades and my life has been fairly awesome because even the most stuck up clients are super social and positive due to the isolation they are forcing on themselves. People are so happy to see and talk to one another when they "cant help it" and are forced by circumstance to interact. Keep your immediate social ties together and build some w neighbors by trying to notice and support something in their life, if possible. I repair broken electronic toys and deliver home cooked food to a family next door sometimes and they do something equivalent. Without that relationship life would really just be staring at walls and screens indoors and errand runs. I have been making a list of small home repairs for family in the area - hole in wall to be patched, light burned out, gate broken, and use the work as an excuse to be there, be helpful, and do something for someone that matters to me. They need to feel the strength of my friendship supporting them and I need to feel validated by being and cultivating a friend.
Nobody wants to talk about it, friend. Everyone is so evasive. Of course I live in Pugetopolis, deep behind the blue wall (it used to be purple to but the Dems gerrymandered all purple and red votes into disenfranchisement then probably added a layer of Dominion on top of that).
People here are scared. I and my wife are not; our best friend isn't; my colleagues at work talk openly, albeit quietly. We have a lot of home and land work and care for others. But there is still something missing when we can't say, "Heck it, we don't feel like cooking/cleaning tonight, let's just go to the pub for a burger and a beer."
They are eroding us through a very subtle kind of oppression. The kind where they make you worry about toilet paper at Costco, and you have to wear a cuck muzzle to get in the door, but somehow there's always plenty of Chinese technocrap available that you walk past piles and heaps and stacks and walls of on the way to see if your family will be able to wipe their butts. Very basic humiliation tactic in my view. Obsession with bodily functions--noses/snot and butts/poo.
Sickening. THIS is what's making people crazy. Being catapulted back to being toddlers trying to understand what they're supposed to do with their bodily functions according to the powerful people in their lives (parents).
I've been doing this for decades. It can get dicey and you end up buying a lot of old clothes on Ebay.
Some tips. Chippewa, RedWing, Thorogood, Weinbrenner still make shoes in USA. Wigwam and FoxRiver still make socks here.
Most DeWalt tools are made in Taiwan. Bosch and Makita make tools in Europe and Japan and USA.
There is a growing movement of independent artisans making goods.
I think India will become the new low cost provider of stuff if people just refuse to buy Chinese.
Most stuff that really matters isn't made in Chyna because stuff that really matters can't be crap. Cars and most car parts are not made in China. Motor oil. Most food. Don't buy that Chinese farm raised salmon whatever you do.
I don't have a beef with Hungary who supposed has violated free expression of trans black females or something. My wife bought a Braun foodprocessor made in Hungary. Very nice.
Some companies have found ways around labeling where a product originates. My wife bought some expensive cookware from a company based in England. NOWHERE on the box or product did it say made in China, only "engineered" in England. Buried deep in their website a subtle reference to made in China.
My parents have had the boycott going on for years. When my (now grown) kids were little they talked about going to the toy store with their Grandparents and were told they would buy them a toy but it had to be US made. They’d go through the whole store trying to find ONE THING. It was hard to do!
I often walk through big box stores looking at all the cheap colorful plastic products and wonder how many will be in a landfill within a year.
It was a rhetorical question. LEGO has garbage politics and that's not an insult to your nation, it's just a fact. There's a reason twitter communists sporting the rose also like putting lego and first robotics in their profiles.
No Apple,
No Microsoft,
No Disney,
No Amazon,
No Ebay,
No Best Buy,
No Walmart,
No Nike,
No Target,
No Levi’s,
No Bath and Body Works,
No Victoria’s Secret,
No Nordstrom,
No Chase Bank,
No Netflix
No Home Depot
YES to Bass Pro Shops, YES to Ace Hardware, YES to Overstock, YES to that mattress topper guy who’s on all the ads, YES to Bed Bath and Beyond, YES to Kay Jewelers, YES to Bank of America (EDIT: people are saying strike B of A and I can no longer find my original source), YES to Petco, YES to Aeropostal, YES to Patriot Mobile, YES to Tractor Supply Company
No to Bass Pro Shop. They completely fucked over the entire town of Sidney, Nebraska when they purchased Cabelas. Big surprise, Ben Sasse took money from the hedge fund that orchestrated the deal.
Good to know! I pulled all this from a list I found online. I wish we had an organized place for all this the Left has that (Buy Blue or whatever) - I guess Soros pays for it...
It's nearly impossible to find based companies that support America and sell only USA made products. They are all out to make that extra dollar and the cost be damned.
I have a vision of a nationwide chain of department stores where all of the items sold are made in the USA. That is a bit ambitious for me, but i want to see it. I would love to start a business that makes products in America for Americans. I just have no idea how to identify a product to get started with.
Think what do Americans like to do or have to do. then think of a product that could save time or increase enjoyment of said activity. All the while thinking of locally sources materials and resources that tailor to your demographic. Or just get a list of every company that uses China for manufacturing or any monetary involvement and cross em out.
Good to know about B of A. I pulled them from a list of Trump donors I found on here a few days ago and now can no longer find - until I CAN find that. Let's strike them from the list.
Here is the article I found that mentions Home Depot as "bad":
The frustrating thing about this is we don't seem to have an open access centralized place that gathers data on what companies are spending their $$$ on. The left has it (I guess Soros pays for it) but we don't. 2nd Vote has something but you have to pay to access it.
B of A may have donated to Trump, but they are globalist slime who've used predatory banking and loan practices to screw over customers for a very long time. Frankly I'm shocked that this isn't more well known. We should be advising pedes to use credit unions if at all possible. There's been a boycott by the left against Home Depot for years since their CEO openly supported Trump, so I'd like to see what's changed. I'm certainly not paying 2nd vote to see it however.
Great! I edited it and said we shouldn't include them. It also turns out I was wrong about 2nd vote (or at least partially wrong) they have some free content! They rank B of A SUPER poorly as well. So, it looks like my original source was bad.
https://www.2ndvote.com/company-scores/
100% this. And while we're on this topic: why is Facebook accepting ads from companies making COUNTERFEIT goods? Every second ad on Facebook is some fucking ripped-off Chinese crap. We have intellectual property laws in North America; why is Facebook taking money from Chinese companies breaking the law?
Yes. Stop buying from amazon and eBay. My friend works in eBay. I mentioned the proud boys in one of my rants to her, and she stopped me and said “aren’t they the kkk’, to which I replied what da fck are you talking about. She said that eBay had banned all their products. Buy from small business. Support local business.
I’ve been making it a habit to check through the cart before I check out. Also calling about regular household supplies. Softsoap is made it Mexico or US, but still not sure about Angel Soft TP. Seems like that wouldn’t be worth the trouble of shipping, but cheap plastic crap is. Now that I’ve gotten my hands on a couple cans of Lysol wipes, I see those are made in China. Ironic, no? But I will find another product or a workaround.
Making your own cleaners is easy and can save a LOT of cash over the long run, if you can help it. Only 4 or 5 common household items you likely already have can make cleaners and laundry detergent soaps and shampoos!
I avoid that for anything rubber... will dry it out. Methanol is supposed to be better, but that is hard to find also... gallons are available on line, nothing in stores I can find.
But cheap old hyd per works great. Cut it with filtered water, a small squirt of dish soap. Put lemon peels in, smells nice.
Basicall everything is made in china, even expensive high-end products.
As a former libertarian it pains me to say this: the only solution left is to wield the awesome power of the federal government against all enemies, foreign and domestic.
Actually if we can get red states/counties to ban together and stop paying federal taxes we can accomplish the same thing.
People are afraid the fed goon squads will come pick us off one by one but if communities ban together and can call on each other like what Clive Bundy did then the feds don't have enough motherfuckers to take everybody to jail.
I can't say what I want to say because it would sound like I'm dooming but you don't have a choice but to push on both fronts. You can do it, I believe in your ability to do two things at once.
You brought memes into reality, you can do it! When I falter, other pedes pick me up. When you have doubts, I'm here to get you back in the fight. This is only going to get uglier once we push past the beach with Trump.
That kind of giving up mentality is unlike us. Are we perfect, not by any means. Does this mean we should give up completely? Hell no! The key part is training yourself to minimize the influence China has over your life.
GIving up is essential to human nature. Good software developers and ergonomics designers have realized a long time ago you have to work with that instinct. Make it as seamless as possible for your customers to achieve the end result you're selling and more people will buy your product.
I found a toilet repair kit made in the USA and the 5 gallon buckets are also made in the USA. We have a difficult task ahead on the software and cultural side but it's still possible. Look at Aldi's if you want to see how it's done. Every product they can make in Germany, they do. They sell a few things made in the USA that make sense and there are almost no products in their store that are made in countries you would have qualms with.
Yeah, I agree, I just think I eventually found american made alternatives for everything I want besides laptop/phone. The trouble was that I found the alternatives too late. I genuinely think it's a marketing/resale issue and the products made in the USA are there just borderline impossible to find unless you spend every free minute doing product research.
I have been doing this for years since about 2009 when I saw china’s and global finance’s true color. I am not 100% but am getting better ... also ... when given the option I shop at mom and pops and farmers markets ... I won’t set foot in Walmart ...
And - I also frequent Salvation Army — that is where I picked up my 1918 Knabe Grand Piano.... why new when used is beautiful...
As someone who has always checked labels of where things are made (thanks for teaching me, mom), I've noticed especially in the last year that the tariffs seem to be working, at least when it comes to textiles and clothes, I'm seeing much more stuff made in India, Pakistan, Vietnam. Still not the best, but at least they're not China. I would also add a plea to shop from local businesses as much as possible, especially with the holidays coming up. So many have been absolutely crushed this year and need a good holiday season to at least maybe break even.
This can't work. Patriotic Americans have been going out of their way to buy made in the U.S.A. stuff for decades to no effect. That's because the macroeconomic forces at play are way too strong. Every time you insist on buying American-made someone else gets their Chinese-made shit cheaper.
I have a small business. At trade shows I have Chinese coming to my booth literally taking pictures and FaceTime chatting with their people back home looking for ways replicate my products cheaper. So blatant. They presume Americans just want shit at the cheapest price possible, quality be damned. And honestly for the most part they seem to be right.
Stop buying the cheapest shit and start buying stuff made from good material and ethically which is pretty much any country in the world except China.
Support American and non chinese industry. It is almost impossible to find raw materials or manufacturers in America, and when you do their prices are laughable compared to china. Small business has been pushed into a position where they must buy from China or leave significant money on the table. I'm not really for subsedies generally, but if we are going to have them let's stop subsidizing bullshit green nonsense that funds the nwo and start subsedizingAmerican manufacturing. Cheap plastic crap makes the world go round right now. We either need it to be made in America or have a cultural revolution towards 3d printing
Also, whenever possible, buy from small locally owned businesses! Keep those dollars in the pockets of your fellow community members rather than NWO corporations!
Yup. For the most part thats what I've been doing. Although in a lot of cases the big corporatist has a monopoly or is the only horse in town. In that case its worth the extra gas money to travel out of town...
I agree with you 100% stop shopping at Costco and Walmart. They are import channels for Chinese shit. Costco is especially bad. EVERYTHING comes from the CCP
And don’t support companies that dont align with your values too. .
Until we can disengage from countries now or in the future that are behaving badly, we need an executive order [or even law] that simply requires the flag(s) of the country of origin be:
a) printed on the package/box/carton/container and included instructions if any.
For product in-country after the effective date of the order, a flag sticker applied after the fact is compliant. If the print is black-and-white only, a black-and-white rendition of the flag is permitted, but if ambiguous, the name of the country has to be printed below the flag in 6 pt or larger type. For multi-countries of origin, attach each flag. Same for a product that can come from plants in two different countries, if it can't be known.
b) for e-commerce stores, one if the images of the product has to be the above flag. For most software this is not a huge technical issue, they already have slots to upload images. Exception: The site can use one flag at the top w/appropriate text, if all products are from that country, "All products sold on this site are made in the USA"
c) for physical stores, the flag or origin has to be on the shelf price sticker. Same "All products made in USA"-type signage permitted, if this is true.
d) In those jurisdictions that do not require per unit pricing, the flag on the shelf sticker will be adequate. [trying for a reasonable compromise and not drive up labor costs]
e) penalty of $TBD for misrepresentation per product line, not per product, waiveable for the first half a year if corrected within a week. [not certain how to write this legally into an executive order, but there may already be a law against misrepresentation of the country of orgin].
This is an unfunded mandate, but not outrageously expensive. Almost all the flags of all countries are Emoji now and a sheets of avery labels or bulk clones aren't expensive, we're talking hundred of flag stickers for pennies, and your staff has to put the price tags on any way.
It informs the consumer and let's them make their own decision - good capitalism, not forced socialistic behavior.
It can be done faster then China disengagement, which can and still happen after, if the Chinese government continues to be assholes, and works for other countries in the future, if they behave poorly.
Time: phase in large stores like Walmart and Amazon first, Distributors next, then the Mom-and-Pop stores last.
Can it be done via an executive order or a Customs Service regulation?
An executive order just needs Trump.
A regulation could require more time and publication in the Congressional Register for 90 days and some other approvals, but if it passes, it's good.
Larger Red States can do this at the state level. If they are large enough, it's not worth it to print two boxes. California is probably a non-starter, but maybe Texas.
If a future administration decides to roll it back, they would have some explaining to do.
If it is proposed and looks like it is getting traction, companies may start changing their packaging in front of the regulation.
There is no downside for this, if another country does the same. It's just customer education as to where their product comes from.
The Guerrilla mode is to print a bunch of tasteful and small Chinese flag stickers and go to down at the local box stores, a little bit at a time, without harming the product, focusing on slower moving items first. This may be against some laws 'defacing someone else's property', and if caught, one could get trespassed from the store.
Last thing we need here. I always avoid seafood with ambiguous or shady country of origin labeling... you do not want to eat that stuff. The commies are not our friends, and care little about the dangerous, cheap garbage they dump on America.
I do this. Takes time, but I have peace in my heart knowing that I am not supporting a godless, murderous, manipulative, authoritarian killing machine that abuses its people, destroys, imprisons or murders anyone who would dare disagree, and rips babies from their mother’s wombs.
If Bezos and Amazon were interested in the well being of America, there would be a Made in USA option on Amazon. I can get shitty Chinese garbage anywhere.
Sadly, that ship has already sailed pede. If you actually want to do something about it you should be building as much self-production and small scale production capacity as possible, regardless of the country of origin of the components and tools that you need to do so. To fight the Great Reset, you're going to have to counter it with the Great Bifurcation, wherein we operate an economy separate and apart from the giant corporatist sellouts that hold sway today. That means building capacity and capabilities at all levels. It also means that we have to kill some of the messed up ideas about how our economy is supposed to work. Some of it's going to be great, some of it is going to REALLY suck. Things like planned obsolescence is probably not going to be missed by that many people, but it's going to be really hard to give up disposable plastic goods.
So, if you need a tool, buy it now even if it was probably made in China. (Even the stuff billed as "made" in the US is usually only assembled here.) If it serves the overall purpose of allowing you to operate more independently, then it's a net positive. I already have most of the tools I need, some of them are relics from a time when America made industrial equipment, others are Chinese junk that required a lot of tinkering and modifications. Buying classic American tools is a pleasure, but that stuff is getting harder and harder to find, and consequently more and more expensive and ironically enough some of it is in China, they used it to kill our manufacturing plants.
I spent a bunch of money getting every possible thing I might need to maintain all of the tools and electronics in my workshop right before the election (ie spare motors, switches, microcontrollers, laser tubes etc). I got up this morning and ordered common spare and replacement parts for all the appliances in my home too. They're basically all Chinese, but that can't be helped at this point. My point is simple, get what you need now so that you can effectively wage a boycott later.
Exactly. And don't fall for "shipped from the USA" either. That just means some fucking Chinese company rented a warehouse in the US so they can manufacture in China, ship to the US, and mail out from the warehouse. It's a fucking scam and it should be illegal.
Or even worse- an American cuck buys Chinese product DIRECT from the sweatshop in China and it is shipped to an Amazon warehouse In the USA where they will literally hold all the product for you. Cucks trying to start a “online re-sell” business are doing this all over the USA. Source- I know flaming libs that are doing this, there’s classes for it online and shit
That is why Amazon fulfillment was created
Just a reminder-
Fuck Amazon
Amazon must have 40 different filters to choose from when you search for an item, but Made in USA is not one of them. hmmmm
Amazon filters are not even filters. Just suggestions from marketing. Sort price low to high and every 4 items there's a sponsored row of high priced crap.
our rare earth mines have been shut down by the EPA for a while making it so China has a monopoly on that industry. So it makes sense on why its all over there.
Sen Skeletor (feinstein) husband happens to ship a large part of those into the US
Disclaimer: something ive seen mentioned on here. I dont have a source.
Yeah and if the Supreme Court buttfucks us in the coming month, we will be locked down harder and right back to funding those commies expansion.
GEOTUS is changing that too.
https://www.nationaldefensemagazine.org/articles/2020/11/20/mining-company-determined-to-restore-us-rare-earth-supply-chain
MP Materials, which operates the largest rare earth element mines in the Western Hemisphere, had a big week.
It was one of three companies on Nov. 17 to receive Defense Department grants intended to return rare earth production to the United States. The following day it was listed on the New York Stock Exchange.
The Pentagon awarded a Defense Production Act Title III grant worth $9.6 million to MP Materials so it can begin to refine the strategic minerals at its Mountain Pass, California, mine.
“This grant from the DoD is outstanding. It's humbling. And we're very proud of the fact that DoD is supporting us,” James Litinsky, the company's CEO, told National Defense in an interview.
The Mountain Pass mine is the largest producer of rare earth elements in the Western Hemisphere and constitutes 15 percent of the world’s production of the minerals, which are essential to manufacture high performance magnets. China currently has a near monopoly on refining the elements and producing the magnets, which are used in a variety of weapon systems as well as commercial goods such as wind turbines and electric vehicles.
On Sept. 30, President Donald Trump signed Executive Order 13817, which — among other items — seeks to return rare earth production to the United States and break China’s dominance over the supply chain.
Mine Pebble homie.
For computers, a decent choice is Fujitsu... they DO NOT trust the Chinese, so you'll get components from other asian countries... Vietnam, Malaysia, Korea. Of course there will always be some chinese components, because some stuff is only made there... but at least Fujitsu uses chinese shit as a last resort.
If you can't find what you're looking for made in the USA, then definitely try to buy from countries that aren't China or controlled by China at the very least.
That’s because you’re on Amazon... Hit a Duck Duck Go search for what you’re looking for made in the USA. Very rare I don’t find several good USA made options for anything. Often when looking back Amazon does not have what I find through search, so I just pay the shipping and move along. Likely canceling Prime for this reason
If you look hard enough you will find items not made in China. Support local businesses
they are trying to compete with amazon
https://buyamerican.com seems to be a good idea but I cannot verify the integrity... is this legit?
I would love to know too
Good thinking. If this doesn't work well, we can make our own lists. Maybe later our own app. At the same time, that type of infrastructure further strengthens our ability to say FU to leftists cancel culture NPCs and their corporate hostages.
Asians do it all the time. It's enterprising, and I won't support it.
Early on in the tariff trade war with China, the big sellers on Speddit in the Amazon forums were saying that their manufacturers all offered to transship through other countries to avoid the high tariffs.
We need to get a handle on that and bring back manufacturing here. Why is it so much cheaper to make stuff there then ship it 6000 miles? Labor costs cant be the only thing
Labor is a huge factor. And risks of unionizing. Health Insurance.
The number one largest expenditure of any company is labor. By a large margin.
It's hard to find investors that will put capitol in your company if you have razor thin margins. That's why China is able to crank shit out. Banks/investors roll them because their profit spreads are usually huge because of the near slave labor.
big labor and the EPA
Democrat regulations, corporate taxes, labor unions, minimum wage hikes... the death of industry.
Born and raised in a blue collar family in Detroit and was indoctrinated regarding unions. Once again, I heard the unpatriotic self-absorbed (all about me) blather from the union bosses on talk radio regarding the presidential election and their support for Joe Biden. And once again, these gullible ignoramuses will take it in their backside by the deep state, who don't give a shit about them or their unions, only their votes.
He is what they deserve. Too bad we're gonna save them from themselves and have four more years of GEOTUS.
There's a major market of counterfeit auto parts being peddled all over the place
Another one is assembled in America. Built overseas, shipped here were its a couple of pieces put together.
Or the new bs everywhere: Proudly Designed in the USA, by an American-Owned Company! Ok, great - but WHERE is it made and shipped from again?
Shipped from the USA is nice because you don't have to wait several months for something to arrive direct from China. As much as I hate buying from China, some things I use can only be bought from there. Not necessarily a scam, depends on how it's advertised.
Yes, that's a fair point. The ads I'm seeing on Facebook are scams, because they're even stealing the photographs of small creators to sell cheap knock-offs. But I used to deal with a fabric company in China, and they were upfront that their American warehouses were for convenience/time.
I'm with you 100% about boycotting China and buying Made in the USA whenever possible. It should be noted that the global elites arent worried about profit. What they're trying to gain control of is debt of countries. If you control the debt, you control the country. We need to get America out of debt from these tyrants and become self sufficient. By not supporting Chinese goods, is a good start to becoming independent.
Everyone needs to understand this , it’s not about money to these people. Power power power and more power. The only way America gets out of debt is by destroying the Federal Reserve btw
Buy Bitcoin
https://www.ushistory.org/us/5d.asp
a good read for anyone who has ever been curious about experiments with debt, resets, distribution of wealth, utopian ideals, etc...
We need to get back to money beung a stable medium of exchange, not a fiat fiction.
Theres an old doc called The Money Masters, it was one of my first redpills. It was about returning to precious metals. However the guy who did the doc changed his opinion and wrote a book with a doc to go with it called "the secret of oz" about a debt free fiat currency carefully issued into circulation.
I remember that one from the 9/11 conspiracy theory days.
9\11 truth fell off awhile ago. Ah Simpler times
Buy Bitcoin
Bitcoin - the ultimate fiat.
Would change our entire future for the better by miles and miles
Or by election interference eo and we cancel all chyna debt
Buy Bitcoin
Digital currency? No, thanks. Nwo dream
I am praying that Trump figures out a way to cancel our debt to ChYna over these acts of war🙏
Thinking with siezed assests, combined with the fact that China interfered in our election will settle this debt. Just a guess.
Trump has been laying the groundwork for seizing the bad actors assets. But man, am I getting impatient.
Aren't we all. The next 2-3 weeks should be interesting
And the brainwashed lemmings will find a way to be upset lmao. Clown World. Fuck China.
Globalists print the money out of thing air with debt attached on creation, it's fractional reserve, enriches those in the game, fucks everyone else over since it's inception.
Or, since this site is massive, it turns out we can talk about all of those things.
Yes! We have an army, we can do it all. Bannon is 1 man and a 2 hour show. HES not going to talk about tucker because he has to focus. We are the equivalent of 10,000 Bannons. We can do it all.
These guys might make too big of playsets for what you want, but made in US: www.playlsi.com
The funny thing is that if the great reset is done right then it's those at the top that would lose the most.
Great resets was a common thing in games because it rapidly became a competition of who signed up first.
All the top players that put years into it would just have all their stats wiped.
I don't think 'The Great Reset' means the same to them as it does to most people who hear it. They're not looking to put everyone on equal ground, they're looking to put everyone who isn't them at 0, and keep them there, forever working away.
They're trying to 'reset' the economic system from free-market capitalism to zero property communism, where government owns everything and you need permission from them to do or use anything.
They want to 'reset' the global population back down to a manageable number, not so few as to be unable to provide their luxuries, but not so many as to be able to revolt. A good shepherd has to keep his flock at a manageable size, and the unruly and rebellious have to be culled.
Obviously they want to 'reset' your 2nd Amendment. That ties into the above, with a gun, any sheep becomes a wolf they can't see. We all think we know how much they hate 2A, but honestly, I don't think we can even imagine. It might be the only real thing stopping them from just saying 'fuck it' and plowing ahead anyway.
Communications, Internet access, all that has to be 'reset'. It'd be like all those shitty government sites, we'd be assigned numbers to log in to the internet, be allowed only on approved pages, all messages and communications recorded and checked real-time.
And there's a thousand other things that need to be 'reset', I'm sure we can all think of dozens right away. 'The Great Reset' is actually trillions of little resets. The only thing that doesn't get reset is them.
You're absolutely right. The Great reset in short is about rolling back the industrial revolution. Making 99.99% of humanity nothing but serfs and vassals that belong to fiefdoms. The 1% get to be the aristocrats and lord it over us. I think all the evidence we need that they hate us and want to punish us is what Democrat governors are doing to Thanksgiving. My Lefty family is saying "Oh, if we give up Thanksgiving to flatten the curve, we'll have Christmas!" Wait for it. They'll come down even harder against Christmas. New Year's is okay though as long as we serfs celebrate with Antifa by destroying mainstreet.
Pathetic family. They are so grateful to be sold back what they had all along. A very dangerous mentality. Shifts power from The People to the government. Rights turn into privileges. They have no idea what this Country was founded on.
Well, they're my family and it's the only one I'll ever have and I love them but there's no reasoning with them. A lot of my family won't even talk to me anymore. So yeah, they are that pathetic, some of them. Just another reason why I left Minneapolis.
I'm sorry about your family pede. I wonder what the civil war will be like because it seems everyone is willing to go for any commie their family excluded. If we all exclude our cucked familes there would be no one left to fight except those who get riled up enough to stand in our way.
Well said. Sometimes you need to sever the arm so the body can survive..
Yet for some reason they call it the oncoming fourth industrial revolution. There's no progress being made when you own nothing and according to them will be happy.
For what it's worth, I had a friend 20 years ago who had served on the boards of various huge NGOs and foundations. He was also an elected public official (state executive branch). We were walking and talking one day about a range of things of mutual interest. He said to me that it was necessary in his view to cull 90% of the human population "so that the rest of us could then have more."
It was one of those moments where my jaw dropped and flapped and my vocal cords went all paralyzed. I was gob smacked, as we used to say in Philly.
When I finally found my voice I said to him, that's interesting, who gets to make the decision about who lives and dies.
Well, he said, WE do, since we're the smart ones on the side of what is true and correct.
I replied, "Oh, you're saying I get to be part of the team that makes that choice?"
Yes, he said.
I replied, "Well neat. I choose that you die, because you are 30 years older than me, and I want your stuff, also you have those medical problems we've been discussing that are costly."
He visibly blanched, then turned beet red. Never spoke to me again after that. I didn't care. It was an incredible wakeup call for me.
He is still in office. In his 80s. Democrat. In his mind, the New Order means that HE will get power while denying it to others. It told me all I needed to know about what his sort of politician thought and meant by certain codewords.
This kind of nightmare scenario should convince any freedom-loving Patriot that this is the hill to die on.
It's all about control. Peasants can't form a rebellion when they're too busy worrying about where the rent check is going to come from.
Everything in your lives will be a subscription. You will rent everything and own nothing. Can't make a payment, stuff immediately gets turned off. Wrong speak, cut off, wrong think, cut off. Online information access in total government control, and paper information will be eliminated, you know because of spooky flu transmission.
And they are doing it in a way that it will be the lemmings asking for it. In the name of make me safe from the spooky flu.
Learn to repair stuff. Not the easiest thing to do with today's electronics, but every lamp fixed, every clock fixed, every hand soap dispenser refilled is trash kept out of a landfill and money kept out of the CCPs pocket.
Amen. We as a culture need to start rejecting this mindless consumption and "keeping up with the Jones's"
Agreed. It also cements these corporate monopolies when the masses shill out thousands of dollars every year for a new iPhone/laptop/car/tv/etc.
That’s the ends game- basically State protected monopolies with zero competition (think Soviet Russia). One or two companies per industry that dominate the entire country. Would be fucking horrible
Take a look at South America. That's exactly what happens there and you are right, it is horrible.
Same in South Korea
That place would be great if they didn’t resort to the over the top racism and anti-semitism like a bunch of edge lords. Not the BS stuff that they call Conservatives racist for. Like hard r straight vile racism. Not consuming BS is cool though
But the people on tv have all cool stuff..
Kek
Anything other than Bitcoin is just gambling. None of the other coins or tokens "real uses" have shown to be of any relevance
Bitcoin is too expensive and so widely distributed that it will never lose its value. It may crash, but it will always go back up.
All the other coins are just owned by whales who pump and dump them. There's no regulation so fools get fooled.
That's pretty much it
Buy a little bitcoin every week, $20 or $50. It will average out over the long run. Can invest it it on Robinhood, but you won't own the coins, can't spend them, but to build wealth it will work.
Also Ethereum.
Unfortunately, Bitcoin is not immune to whales either.
2% of the Bitcoin addresses own 95% of bitcoin.
https://newdaycrypto.com/2-of-bitcoin-addresses-store-95-of-all-btc/
Look into real privacy coins like Dash and Monero.
kind of. You can avoid directly giving money to China by buying used hardware. Thankfully most games nowadays don't need the newest hardware unless eye candy is cranked up. Any quad core sandy bridge on up will play most things, and haswell-up will play VR, and used Pascal 1070+ cards are good for most 1080p
Then there's classic games. I have an offline computer I built 15 years ago that runs some of my favorite games of all time. It'll be a sad day when that rig goes down.
My PC is 6 years old and all I've replaced is a PSU. You don't need to upgrade them as often as you did 20 years ago. Leaps in performance are smaller and further apart.
End the Fed. Its credit that facilitates our slavery.
Capitalism is built on capital, which is SAVED money.
Fed printer go brrrrrrrr has led us where we are today bc it has made people forget cost-benefit analysis, which everyone used to have to do before credit was widely available.
Dave Ramsey is fantastic about this. STOP BEING SERFS. NO MORE BORROWING!
I wonder if hell ever get into this debt facilitates tyranny discussion on his show. He hints at it, but tries super hard to stay non partisan to protect his business (and employees, of course).
Ive had the same android phone for three years and an iphone (that needs a new screen) that's even older that I could use. I even have a burner flip phone lol.
Do you also recommend shopping for what you need or want from Goodwill's and Salvation Army's and all of the independent consignment/thrift shops just to keep money from reaching Chicom's hands? Just asking for a friend.
My favorite places to shop!
I have purchased everything from my 1918 knabe grand piano to bowls and books at Salvation Army. Sure - there is some junk but also a lot of great useable stuff...
A friend of mine also only purchased her kids clothes at Salvation Army because kids grow out of clothes quickly...
I've found good stuff at secondhand stores, just be aware that they're turning a massive profit due to tax breaks and reselling items that were donated to them for free.😉 Fwiw, garage/rummage sales are the way to go. Craigslist, depending on what you're buying and if you know your market.
This is my main strategy. Also utilize Craigslist and Facebook (I know) Marketplace. Facebook is also good for joining local community groups. A lot of times I see people posting about something they need, give a price range and people reply to help out. Lots of times for less or free. I know there are alternatives to Facebook for local groups like this, just haven't had time to check them out.
Where I live there are a lot of individually owned secondhand stores. They're small businesses just like anyone else. Of the big chains, I've heard Goodwill is kind of a scam as far benefitting the needy, but Salvation Army is on the up and up. Or so I've heard.
You bet! Second hand, garage/yard sales, made in USA online stores and local stores. It is possible!
If there are any available in your area, shop the mom & pop thrift stores before going to Goodwill & the Salvation Army.
Wow I had no idea these sites existed. Even better is Made in the USA. Using products grown here, processed here, and shipped from here. Never accept anything less if you want to buy USA. The prices may be more expensive but they reflect what the product is actually worth. (With fair pay and work practices)
Thank you for these links!!
That's sick, you can create your own guides on that site to help others out too.
I use youtube for fixing stuff. Saved a ton repairing my dishwasher when it just needed the chopper to be cleaned. And we fixed my car window that fell off the track.
When I was a kid my family has always been one of those "make it last" type. Mostly my father. Driving the same car for 20 years, using the same TV for 15 years, the same HAM radio for 50 years, etc. Before corporatists began whoring themselves out to China they used to build to last... These days you're lucky to get 2 years out of a Microwave. Heck I still use a 50 year old Kenmore microwave. It's older than me and I've seen it in the kitchen every day of my life.
This is why as a Gen Zer, i'm going to search for as much antique stuff as I possibly can or at least stuff that is very minimalistic and simple. I'm not gonna waste my money on newer junk.
If you're patient, you can load out an entire workshop just in good old American vintage tools, for very little money. Learn to true up / tune up / repair older versions of new things, and you can save money on the niceties. For example, the oldest kerosene heaters like the Reddy Heater torpedo heaters and the common keroheat radiants, even if they're beat up, are dead simple to fix and cheap to run. Old small engines tend to be rebuildable, and often just have clogged carburetors. No need to spend money on new shit with a few skills in repair and an analytical mind.
And if you don't have an analytical mind, dogged determination and fearlessness will still get you very far.
Learn how to repair antique stuff before looking into that, sone antiques are actually super intricate
My mom had a 70s microwave for years. My sister called it the "cancer enhancer" .
We all need to ditch the microwaves. They are awful for us.
repairing things is objectively more environmentally friendly than buying new stuff. Yet they want you to buy the new "green" car, the new "green" fridge, the new "green" iphone that doesn't even come with a charger and forces you to make more polution making more boxes and more weight to carry around the globe on ships.
Woke capitalism is the worst.
It should be required by law that goods on the internet clearly state origin of manufacture.
Origin of all parts too.
"Oh, but it would be so hard to take our invoices and copy paste the legally required import information that we already have and put it up on the website!"
Exactly. Doesn’t count if the ‘manufacture’ was putting a wrapper on it.
And just post an image of the legally required label. Some products on Amazon have photos of the label... I always look to see if I can spot the origin.
Most things on amazon marketplace are merchandise from alibaba.
DO NOT BUY FROM AMAZON.
I second that notion: do not buy from Amazon!
If you're going to buy from amazon might as well by straight from China and save the cash.
Can suggest a based alternative?
https://www.2ndvote.com/company-scores/
This should help!
Holy crap, it REALLY does. What a resource! Thanks so much!
Ummmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm.............
That's a cool site! I hope they keep adding more companies to the list, there's a lot I would like to know about.
I used to buy everything from Amazon, but I have canceled my Prime subscription and I haven't purchased anything from there for four months. If I can't find the product I want locally, I usually go to Amazon to look for the product I want and then I search the internet for a comparable, made in the U.S.A. product from other online retailers. It is much easier than I thought it would be. There are tons of businesses who are in competition with Amazon. You just have to look.
What are you trying to buy? If I need something I try to buy directly from the company or locally.
80 million of us buyers need to stop. Stop using Amazon. Isolate the target.
Yes. Amazon is should be a prime target.
underrated comment
Market base of 80 million people just waiting for someone to build an America-first alternative to Amazon.
I used to browse Amazon and plan future purchases for dumb crap I was going to buy next. After their Amazon Prime social media team on Facebook said “well, see you at the polls” in response to some feedback, I instantly stopped visiting Amazon as a matter of habit. I’ve ordered maybe one or two things from them in the last couple months.
Feels good to support either local businesses or even just more specialized retailers like Home Depot.
If anyone is wondering how to get books from somewhere that isn’t Amazon owned, check out bookstore.org They are indie and give money back to a larger fund for local bookstores. Be wary of pretty much all other book sellers online. Even AbeBooks is amazon owned but they don’t make that known.
Somethings are only available on Amazon. When I bought my house, many things. We're not available at Lowe's our Home Depot. I checked many stores.
Then it probably wasn't a necessary product.
Either that, or the item can be bought from another internet vendor. You can easily avoid Amazon and order directly from the vendors website, which are often mentioned on Amazon.
It was a LION door knocker I bought before Trump came around. It's a perfect piece for my house.
100% right!!! Try it for a week or two. It is nearly impossible especially with electronics and shoes. But if you do it the stuff you buy, while expensive, will last a whole lot longer.
I get 2-5 years of heavy wear out of my Danner boots.
Facing the china problem with my kids though. I don't want to spend $100+ every year per kid as they keep outgrowing them, but I'm about ready to start.
New Balance made in USA but sometimes with Chinese components.
Danner could be too for all I know, it's way too damn easy to hide that the components aren't made in America if they just stitch them together in a warehouse somewhere.
Not all New Balance. The lower end ones are made in Vietnam or other places. Made in US will be the $100+ sneakers.
Exactly. You get what you pay for.
We do this with most things!! It has definitely been the right decision on many, many fronts.
Edit: didn't proof before submit
Yup, shoes is the best investment i ever did. I would walk through a pair of Chinese shoes minimum 3 months and wore out. I bought a nice pair of cowboy boots and those last me almost 3 years now
Some 1 star reviews are from unreasonable people though
I agree, but Gen X is probably the last generation that prefers brick and mortar stores. I've passed on many things when I saw them in person, or saw that the sizing was way off. The drive up/curbside seems to be popular, so hopefully that will support the brick and mortar stores to remain relevant to the younger generations.
hard to do when they close all the other stores. I'm already in a soft bug-in mode, I go straight to work and come straight back and have everything I need to last the dark winter. this is no way to live. this is what real tyranny looks and feels like
You have got to find people to chill and talk with. It is a huge health issue to be so isolated.
indeed, that's also part of the problem. it seems that nobody wants to talk about this outside of the donald. I know there are millions upon millions of patriots that feel like I do but in public its like some kind of freak social experiment everyone is just afraid. they're all just afraid.
I work in the trades and my life has been fairly awesome because even the most stuck up clients are super social and positive due to the isolation they are forcing on themselves. People are so happy to see and talk to one another when they "cant help it" and are forced by circumstance to interact. Keep your immediate social ties together and build some w neighbors by trying to notice and support something in their life, if possible. I repair broken electronic toys and deliver home cooked food to a family next door sometimes and they do something equivalent. Without that relationship life would really just be staring at walls and screens indoors and errand runs. I have been making a list of small home repairs for family in the area - hole in wall to be patched, light burned out, gate broken, and use the work as an excuse to be there, be helpful, and do something for someone that matters to me. They need to feel the strength of my friendship supporting them and I need to feel validated by being and cultivating a friend.
Nobody wants to talk about it, friend. Everyone is so evasive. Of course I live in Pugetopolis, deep behind the blue wall (it used to be purple to but the Dems gerrymandered all purple and red votes into disenfranchisement then probably added a layer of Dominion on top of that).
People here are scared. I and my wife are not; our best friend isn't; my colleagues at work talk openly, albeit quietly. We have a lot of home and land work and care for others. But there is still something missing when we can't say, "Heck it, we don't feel like cooking/cleaning tonight, let's just go to the pub for a burger and a beer."
They are eroding us through a very subtle kind of oppression. The kind where they make you worry about toilet paper at Costco, and you have to wear a cuck muzzle to get in the door, but somehow there's always plenty of Chinese technocrap available that you walk past piles and heaps and stacks and walls of on the way to see if your family will be able to wipe their butts. Very basic humiliation tactic in my view. Obsession with bodily functions--noses/snot and butts/poo.
Sickening. THIS is what's making people crazy. Being catapulted back to being toddlers trying to understand what they're supposed to do with their bodily functions according to the powerful people in their lives (parents).
I've been doing this for decades. It can get dicey and you end up buying a lot of old clothes on Ebay.
Some tips. Chippewa, RedWing, Thorogood, Weinbrenner still make shoes in USA. Wigwam and FoxRiver still make socks here.
Most DeWalt tools are made in Taiwan. Bosch and Makita make tools in Europe and Japan and USA.
There is a growing movement of independent artisans making goods.
I think India will become the new low cost provider of stuff if people just refuse to buy Chinese.
Most stuff that really matters isn't made in Chyna because stuff that really matters can't be crap. Cars and most car parts are not made in China. Motor oil. Most food. Don't buy that Chinese farm raised salmon whatever you do.
Made in Vietnam seems to be popping up alot now too. Alot of my new hats and shirts are from Vietnam.
I think a lot of it is bypassing trump's efforts.
I'm pretty ok with goods from everywhere else. India is really picking up slack.
I mean I even refuse Chinese made electronics. I have a Korean phone and a Rasberry pi made in Whales.
Yeah, I don't mind stuff from other countries, as long as we can block out all the communists and human rights violators.
I don't have a beef with Hungary who supposed has violated free expression of trans black females or something. My wife bought a Braun foodprocessor made in Hungary. Very nice.
Case in point, the Chinese factories that sprung up in Italy, complete with Chinese workers, so everything could say "Made in Italy"
Then they blamed those workers for the Kung Pao Sicken outbreak there
I'm aware of this in the leather industry. Still better than actual Chyna.
Now I want raspberry pie.
Yes! Please, for your families health, avoid all food products from communist China!
Darn Tough socks are my go to usually. They're well made.
Some companies have found ways around labeling where a product originates. My wife bought some expensive cookware from a company based in England. NOWHERE on the box or product did it say made in China, only "engineered" in England. Buried deep in their website a subtle reference to made in China.
And delete your Facebook account.
Most people are off Facebook nowadays. It's just the middle aged moms still on there at least in the US.
My parents have had the boycott going on for years. When my (now grown) kids were little they talked about going to the toy store with their Grandparents and were told they would buy them a toy but it had to be US made. They’d go through the whole store trying to find ONE THING. It was hard to do! I often walk through big box stores looking at all the cheap colorful plastic products and wonder how many will be in a landfill within a year.
Hey now... LEGO is a quality product... Show the Netherlands some love.
Lego donated to BLM.
Unfortunate. But you gotta remember, most people support the idea not knowing about the organization.
Well thats the problem isn't it? And they will continue to do so until they are told to stop.
You would like me to believe that Lego the corporation doesn't know what BLM the corporation is all about? 🤣🤣🤣
Not every manufacturer is in on the scheme... Let alone a toy manufacturer...
It was a rhetorical question. LEGO has garbage politics and that's not an insult to your nation, it's just a fact. There's a reason twitter communists sporting the rose also like putting lego and first robotics in their profiles.
And you can feel the quality when you step on them with bare feet. ARRGHHH
Too bad Lego cucked out to BLM, removing police sets and the white house set from store shelves, and pledging to donate $5 to BLM.
I say this as a recovering Lego fanatic.
When they aren't cost- reducing their products to death. I love lego but lately their stuff feels like a scam.
YES YES YES. RESEARCH PEOPLE, RESEARCH.
No Apple, No Microsoft, No Disney, No Amazon, No Ebay, No Best Buy, No Walmart, No Nike, No Target, No Levi’s, No Bath and Body Works, No Victoria’s Secret, No Nordstrom, No Chase Bank, No Netflix No Home Depot
YES to Bass Pro Shops, YES to Ace Hardware, YES to Overstock, YES to that mattress topper guy who’s on all the ads, YES to Bed Bath and Beyond, YES to Kay Jewelers, YES to Bank of America (EDIT: people are saying strike B of A and I can no longer find my original source), YES to Petco, YES to Aeropostal, YES to Patriot Mobile, YES to Tractor Supply Company
Bank of America? Really?
Go with a local credit union.
Yeah, I question BofA as well. I'm somewhat guilty, I have a credit card with them, but I do all of my main banking with a local credit union.
I mean, those are better if you have them but at least Bank of America supports Trump more than other banks.
You are right. B of A sucks. Let's remove them from list.
Don't go with a credit union. Their regulations are a joke and offer little if any consumer protection.
Most exist as a credit union to avoid paying the taxes a bank does and to avoid the FDIC audits.
Use a local bank, or one of the many many fintechs that have popped up recently.
No to Bass Pro Shop. They completely fucked over the entire town of Sidney, Nebraska when they purchased Cabelas. Big surprise, Ben Sasse took money from the hedge fund that orchestrated the deal.
Good to know! I pulled all this from a list I found online. I wish we had an organized place for all this the Left has that (Buy Blue or whatever) - I guess Soros pays for it...
It's nearly impossible to find based companies that support America and sell only USA made products. They are all out to make that extra dollar and the cost be damned.
some are worse than others
We need to get cracking, then and open up some businesses!
I have a vision of a nationwide chain of department stores where all of the items sold are made in the USA. That is a bit ambitious for me, but i want to see it. I would love to start a business that makes products in America for Americans. I just have no idea how to identify a product to get started with.
I think Aldi has a great strategy that could translate well to a "Made in the USA" store.
Think what do Americans like to do or have to do. then think of a product that could save time or increase enjoyment of said activity. All the while thinking of locally sources materials and resources that tailor to your demographic. Or just get a list of every company that uses China for manufacturing or any monetary involvement and cross em out.
Wow, this is great! They don't seem to be pay to play after all. We should spread this more widely.
I thought they were pay to play, thanks for this!
Good tip!
Depends on the products.
Yep. Even western shirts... made in communist china.
No to BAC. They are globalists. In fact that goes for every large bank. Use local banks and credit unions.
Ugh no. B of A has screwed people with their overdraft scam for years. I thought the CEO of Home Depot was based and donated to Trump?
Good to know about B of A. I pulled them from a list of Trump donors I found on here a few days ago and now can no longer find - until I CAN find that. Let's strike them from the list.
Here is the article I found that mentions Home Depot as "bad":
https://patriotpost.us/articles/59614-the-conservatives-guide-for-where-to-shop-2018-11-21
The frustrating thing about this is we don't seem to have an open access centralized place that gathers data on what companies are spending their $$$ on. The left has it (I guess Soros pays for it) but we don't. 2nd Vote has something but you have to pay to access it.
B of A may have donated to Trump, but they are globalist slime who've used predatory banking and loan practices to screw over customers for a very long time. Frankly I'm shocked that this isn't more well known. We should be advising pedes to use credit unions if at all possible. There's been a boycott by the left against Home Depot for years since their CEO openly supported Trump, so I'd like to see what's changed. I'm certainly not paying 2nd vote to see it however.
Great! I edited it and said we shouldn't include them. It also turns out I was wrong about 2nd vote (or at least partially wrong) they have some free content! They rank B of A SUPER poorly as well. So, it looks like my original source was bad. https://www.2ndvote.com/company-scores/
100% this. And while we're on this topic: why is Facebook accepting ads from companies making COUNTERFEIT goods? Every second ad on Facebook is some fucking ripped-off Chinese crap. We have intellectual property laws in North America; why is Facebook taking money from Chinese companies breaking the law?
Yes. Stop buying from amazon and eBay. My friend works in eBay. I mentioned the proud boys in one of my rants to her, and she stopped me and said “aren’t they the kkk’, to which I replied what da fck are you talking about. She said that eBay had banned all their products. Buy from small business. Support local business.
I’ve been making it a habit to check through the cart before I check out. Also calling about regular household supplies. Softsoap is made it Mexico or US, but still not sure about Angel Soft TP. Seems like that wouldn’t be worth the trouble of shipping, but cheap plastic crap is. Now that I’ve gotten my hands on a couple cans of Lysol wipes, I see those are made in China. Ironic, no? But I will find another product or a workaround.
Making your own cleaners is easy and can save a LOT of cash over the long run, if you can help it. Only 4 or 5 common household items you likely already have can make cleaners and laundry detergent soaps and shampoos!
And shower spray. Hydrogen peroxide is an excellent sanitizer and mild bleaching agent. Cheap, too.
Not to mention available. It's impossible to find rubbing alcohol where I live. Ever since COVID started I have yet to find rubbing alcohol
I avoid that for anything rubber... will dry it out. Methanol is supposed to be better, but that is hard to find also... gallons are available on line, nothing in stores I can find.
But cheap old hyd per works great. Cut it with filtered water, a small squirt of dish soap. Put lemon peels in, smells nice.
I am intrigued. Tell me more!
I just dropped Dove and switched to Yardley. Very good soap for a good value.
Not sure about Angel Soft. Charmin is labelled made in USA from domestic and imported materials.
BUY AMERICAN!
We are beyond that solution, unfortunately.
Basicall everything is made in china, even expensive high-end products.
As a former libertarian it pains me to say this: the only solution left is to wield the awesome power of the federal government against all enemies, foreign and domestic.
Which should use that awesome power to re-shore companies, which we should then do business with.
That's one part of it. Yes.
Actually if we can get red states/counties to ban together and stop paying federal taxes we can accomplish the same thing.
People are afraid the fed goon squads will come pick us off one by one but if communities ban together and can call on each other like what Clive Bundy did then the feds don't have enough motherfuckers to take everybody to jail.
You are pretty optimistic. We have a beachhead with trump, we need him on the warpath from the top if we are to have a chance at a ground game.
I can't say what I want to say because it would sound like I'm dooming but you don't have a choice but to push on both fronts. You can do it, I believe in your ability to do two things at once.
That's true, but it is a much more difficult path.
You brought memes into reality, you can do it! When I falter, other pedes pick me up. When you have doubts, I'm here to get you back in the fight. This is only going to get uglier once we push past the beach with Trump.
Yes! STOP THE STEAL! And Stop buying Chinese products - they’re junk anyway!
❗️This claim is being disputed by the CCP and other global elitist
I wish Menards was in my area D:.
Won't happen. We're too addicted.
You may find those one or two things that you'll "give up" but you'll stop looking and keeping buying without even knowing you're doing it.
And you'll be "doing your part."
Think different. You can't win like this.
That kind of giving up mentality is unlike us. Are we perfect, not by any means. Does this mean we should give up completely? Hell no! The key part is training yourself to minimize the influence China has over your life.
I didn't say give up. I said "Think different."
GIving up is essential to human nature. Good software developers and ergonomics designers have realized a long time ago you have to work with that instinct. Make it as seamless as possible for your customers to achieve the end result you're selling and more people will buy your product.
Nope, i'm not that dumb. I'm serious with my boycotts.
I've done this for years. It's impossible now. Way too late. You're lucky to find anything not made in China.
I found a toilet repair kit made in the USA and the 5 gallon buckets are also made in the USA. We have a difficult task ahead on the software and cultural side but it's still possible. Look at Aldi's if you want to see how it's done. Every product they can make in Germany, they do. They sell a few things made in the USA that make sense and there are almost no products in their store that are made in countries you would have qualms with.
Yeah, I agree, I just think I eventually found american made alternatives for everything I want besides laptop/phone. The trouble was that I found the alternatives too late. I genuinely think it's a marketing/resale issue and the products made in the USA are there just borderline impossible to find unless you spend every free minute doing product research.
I have been doing this for years since about 2009 when I saw china’s and global finance’s true color. I am not 100% but am getting better ... also ... when given the option I shop at mom and pops and farmers markets ... I won’t set foot in Walmart ...
And - I also frequent Salvation Army — that is where I picked up my 1918 Knabe Grand Piano.... why new when used is beautiful...
Don't trust China. BUY AMERICAN.
Buy American.
Make sure the parts are American too. Along with American labor.
Yep, no black Friday binge buying. Buy only what you need. Shut this mofo down!
I already can feel the black Friday bust amongst friends. Normally its the talk right now. Haven't heard a peep about it.
Yup. If the only option is "made in china" the next question is "do I really need this"
99.9% the answer is no
As someone who has always checked labels of where things are made (thanks for teaching me, mom), I've noticed especially in the last year that the tariffs seem to be working, at least when it comes to textiles and clothes, I'm seeing much more stuff made in India, Pakistan, Vietnam. Still not the best, but at least they're not China. I would also add a plea to shop from local businesses as much as possible, especially with the holidays coming up. So many have been absolutely crushed this year and need a good holiday season to at least maybe break even.
This can't work. Patriotic Americans have been going out of their way to buy made in the U.S.A. stuff for decades to no effect. That's because the macroeconomic forces at play are way too strong. Every time you insist on buying American-made someone else gets their Chinese-made shit cheaper.
We need President Trump.
I have a small business. At trade shows I have Chinese coming to my booth literally taking pictures and FaceTime chatting with their people back home looking for ways replicate my products cheaper. So blatant. They presume Americans just want shit at the cheapest price possible, quality be damned. And honestly for the most part they seem to be right.
Stop buying the cheapest shit and start buying stuff made from good material and ethically which is pretty much any country in the world except China.
Support American and non chinese industry. It is almost impossible to find raw materials or manufacturers in America, and when you do their prices are laughable compared to china. Small business has been pushed into a position where they must buy from China or leave significant money on the table. I'm not really for subsedies generally, but if we are going to have them let's stop subsidizing bullshit green nonsense that funds the nwo and start subsedizingAmerican manufacturing. Cheap plastic crap makes the world go round right now. We either need it to be made in America or have a cultural revolution towards 3d printing
Yeah. Use that billions of dollars of windmill money on something that matters, something that actually helps America.
Also, whenever possible, buy from small locally owned businesses! Keep those dollars in the pockets of your fellow community members rather than NWO corporations!
Yup. For the most part thats what I've been doing. Although in a lot of cases the big corporatist has a monopoly or is the only horse in town. In that case its worth the extra gas money to travel out of town...
Would love to....all the fucking shops are closed except the big retailers!
“But muh REEEEEE the NoIse vs signal!!”
I agree with you 100% stop shopping at Costco and Walmart. They are import channels for Chinese shit. Costco is especially bad. EVERYTHING comes from the CCP
And don’t support companies that dont align with your values too. .
I did post this earlier, but here it is again.
Until we can disengage from countries now or in the future that are behaving badly, we need an executive order [or even law] that simply requires the flag(s) of the country of origin be:
a) printed on the package/box/carton/container and included instructions if any. For product in-country after the effective date of the order, a flag sticker applied after the fact is compliant. If the print is black-and-white only, a black-and-white rendition of the flag is permitted, but if ambiguous, the name of the country has to be printed below the flag in 6 pt or larger type. For multi-countries of origin, attach each flag. Same for a product that can come from plants in two different countries, if it can't be known.
b) for e-commerce stores, one if the images of the product has to be the above flag. For most software this is not a huge technical issue, they already have slots to upload images. Exception: The site can use one flag at the top w/appropriate text, if all products are from that country, "All products sold on this site are made in the USA"
c) for physical stores, the flag or origin has to be on the shelf price sticker. Same "All products made in USA"-type signage permitted, if this is true.
d) In those jurisdictions that do not require per unit pricing, the flag on the shelf sticker will be adequate. [trying for a reasonable compromise and not drive up labor costs]
e) penalty of $TBD for misrepresentation per product line, not per product, waiveable for the first half a year if corrected within a week. [not certain how to write this legally into an executive order, but there may already be a law against misrepresentation of the country of orgin].
This is an unfunded mandate, but not outrageously expensive. Almost all the flags of all countries are Emoji now and a sheets of avery labels or bulk clones aren't expensive, we're talking hundred of flag stickers for pennies, and your staff has to put the price tags on any way.
It informs the consumer and let's them make their own decision - good capitalism, not forced socialistic behavior.
It can be done faster then China disengagement, which can and still happen after, if the Chinese government continues to be assholes, and works for other countries in the future, if they behave poorly.
Time: phase in large stores like Walmart and Amazon first, Distributors next, then the Mom-and-Pop stores last.
Sounds like a bill that needs to be presented to Congress. Of course the commie bastards won't go for it.
Can it be done via an executive order or a Customs Service regulation?
An executive order just needs Trump.
A regulation could require more time and publication in the Congressional Register for 90 days and some other approvals, but if it passes, it's good.
Larger Red States can do this at the state level. If they are large enough, it's not worth it to print two boxes. California is probably a non-starter, but maybe Texas.
If a future administration decides to roll it back, they would have some explaining to do.
If it is proposed and looks like it is getting traction, companies may start changing their packaging in front of the regulation.
There is no downside for this, if another country does the same. It's just customer education as to where their product comes from.
The Guerrilla mode is to print a bunch of tasteful and small Chinese flag stickers and go to down at the local box stores, a little bit at a time, without harming the product, focusing on slower moving items first. This may be against some laws 'defacing someone else's property', and if caught, one could get trespassed from the store.
Of course not. China has bought them all.
I want to buy products and produce made in the USA....
I started visiting a butcher nearby... now buy things by the half. Local animals.
They told me they don't have a web presence because PETA messes with them. We had to do business face to face (gasp).
If you must buy China buy used.
i will be better.
We need a better list/website of american manufacturers so resellers like me can source our products from usa.
Million dollar idea right here folks
SHOP LOCAL. FIND A FARMER, BUY CSA SHARES. EAT WELL, EAT LOCAL, EAT FREE. FUCK THE GLOBAL SYSTEM.
Can you tell us more about CSA shares?
This includes beef. We get way too much meat from China.
Last thing we need here. I always avoid seafood with ambiguous or shady country of origin labeling... you do not want to eat that stuff. The commies are not our friends, and care little about the dangerous, cheap garbage they dump on America.
I quit amazon and boy do I not regret it. I have so much more money to spend locally
Can we just get a USA-ripoff of Amazon already?!
Cut out Amazon. Cut out Walmart. Stop buying Chinese. It can be done for most of the stuff you buy except for maybe electronics.
I do this. Takes time, but I have peace in my heart knowing that I am not supporting a godless, murderous, manipulative, authoritarian killing machine that abuses its people, destroys, imprisons or murders anyone who would dare disagree, and rips babies from their mother’s wombs.
What is china's main goal people?
If Bezos and Amazon were interested in the well being of America, there would be a Made in USA option on Amazon. I can get shitty Chinese garbage anywhere.
Sadly, that ship has already sailed pede. If you actually want to do something about it you should be building as much self-production and small scale production capacity as possible, regardless of the country of origin of the components and tools that you need to do so. To fight the Great Reset, you're going to have to counter it with the Great Bifurcation, wherein we operate an economy separate and apart from the giant corporatist sellouts that hold sway today. That means building capacity and capabilities at all levels. It also means that we have to kill some of the messed up ideas about how our economy is supposed to work. Some of it's going to be great, some of it is going to REALLY suck. Things like planned obsolescence is probably not going to be missed by that many people, but it's going to be really hard to give up disposable plastic goods.
So, if you need a tool, buy it now even if it was probably made in China. (Even the stuff billed as "made" in the US is usually only assembled here.) If it serves the overall purpose of allowing you to operate more independently, then it's a net positive. I already have most of the tools I need, some of them are relics from a time when America made industrial equipment, others are Chinese junk that required a lot of tinkering and modifications. Buying classic American tools is a pleasure, but that stuff is getting harder and harder to find, and consequently more and more expensive and ironically enough some of it is in China, they used it to kill our manufacturing plants.
I spent a bunch of money getting every possible thing I might need to maintain all of the tools and electronics in my workshop right before the election (ie spare motors, switches, microcontrollers, laser tubes etc). I got up this morning and ordered common spare and replacement parts for all the appliances in my home too. They're basically all Chinese, but that can't be helped at this point. My point is simple, get what you need now so that you can effectively wage a boycott later.
Chinanever.com
Awesome site. Thanks for the link.
Not a problem.