Kevin Bae

Non-Social in a Socially Networked World

  • The Trump Train from his first term is off the tracks

    The Trump Train from his first term is off the tracks

    President Trump’s first term unlocked the American economic engine. He lowered taxes, cut regulations, revived industry, and pushed back on a bureaucratic system that had been strangling the country for decades. Before COVID, his policies were having tremendous results. When voted for him in 2024 I expected more of the same. I expected a renewed…

  • Trump disproves his own tariff theory

    Trump disproves his own tariff theory

    Today, President Trump issued an executive order lowering tariffs on dozens of imported food items like coffee, beef, and other agricultural goods. He did this because EVERYONE is screaming that prices continue go to up with no end in sight. Taking this action nullifies his entire theory that tariffs are paid by the importing country.…

  • I finally read David Copperfield by Charles Dickens

    I finally read David Copperfield by Charles Dickens

    I skipped out on a lot of reading in my misspent youth. If a book was assigned in school, I quite often tried to fake my way through just to pass the tests. At over 800 pages, I doubt the Chicago Public School System would have required anyone to read David Copperfield anyway. I have…

  • The Filibuster is not in the Constitution: End it

    The Filibuster is not in the Constitution: End it

    I always believed the filibuster was an important part of protecting the rights of the minority in the United States Senate. I believed it was something baked into the design of our government from the beginning. I only learned the history of the filibuster today, after doing some research on my own. The story we’re…

  • Is this Trump’s real first impeachable offense?

    Is this Trump’s real first impeachable offense?

    Democrats are more outraged by President Trump’s remodeling of the White House than by his use of the U.S. military to kill people in international waters and his threats to carry out military strikes inside a sovereign nation. While these fools mock his decorative taste, Trump is crossing lines that no president should be allowed…

  • Why is Trump being so damned socialist?

    Why is Trump being so damned socialist?

    An article in the Wall Street Journal yesterday talked about investments tied to President Trump’s trade deals with Japan and South Korea where they promise hundreds of billions and are secured by threat of tariffs. Japan agreed to $550 billion, and South Korea to $350 billion. The money would go into something called a special-purpose…