We used to make things.

Apr 23, 2025

Dear Patriot,

We are as frustrated as you as we observe leftist judges and communist organizations try to halt legal actions by the Trump administration to deport illegals, close wasteful aspects of government, and implement changes in higher and lower education.

Console yourselves with the knowledge that the left is completely devoid of good ideas, positive policies and competent leadership. They have nothing but the ability to throw the living room furniture into the street. Eventually, they will run out of sofas.

Today, we look deeper into…

How we allowed China to quietly ruin manufacturing in America.
Updates on trade agreements.
More evidence that failed leftists should not be seen in public.
How a less colorful life is good for your health.
Forget all the fluffy talk about AOC running for president, we know the real candidate.

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1- At the link is the long and dismaying story of a small American manufacturing company, which survived the Great Depression, only to watch American politicians allow China to destroy the company. We have pinched a few excerpts but the entire piece is worthy of time. It is to be referenced for when we get wobbly toward Trump and his war to repatriate American manufacturing.

This is the story of the first war between China and America, a war we resoundingly lost. Small businesses that managed to stay around or be refigured were then wiped out in the second wave of the war... the manufacturing and releasing of the Covid-CCP virus.

Both of these wars had devastating effects on millions of Americans but very little has been written about it. Few Hollywood movies have done a deep dive into this massive change in America. (JD Vance’s book “Hillybilly Elegy” was turned into a great movie but Hollywood now deeply regrets that they went there. It is NOT a leftist position to have America being a manufacturing powerhouse. Nor do they give a damn about the suffering as a result.)

Gray Delany guest writer at Emerald Robinson on Substack

How China Ruined My Family Business: The story of Delany Flush Valves is the story of how America lost its manufacturing jobs and its middle class.

Emerald’s Note: This guest article is the work of my friend who recounts the history of how China drove his family’s flourishing flush valve company out of business over several decades. It’s the story of how countless small business owners in America were ruined by the suicidal trade policies of its inept politicians. With President Trump in office again, will America finally end its suicidal addiction to artificially cheap imports, and start making things again?

QUOTE: The tragedy of Coyne and Delany mirrors the story of thousands of once great American companies. The business was founded in New York City in 1879 by my great-great-great-grandfather John J. Delany and his partner Thomas Coyne. Originally known for its cast iron tubs, brass plumbers trim, wooden flush tanks and fittings, it was one of many small businesses started in the Northeast by the wave of Irish immigrants who arrived to America escaping the potato famine.
After Thomas Coyne died in 1910 with no male heirs, John Delany bought out his share of the business, and the company came fully under Delany family ownership, and changed its name.
In 1927, Delany achieved a major innovation with the creation of a more powerful and reliable flush valve called the Flushboy. The Flushboy produced a more forceful flush, reducing clogging and allowing for greater quantities of waste to be moved more efficiently to sewage treatment facilities. But the Great Depression started two years later.
The period was tough for Delany, as it was also for many companies, but it survived, and then expanded dramatically during World War II, thanks to contracts from military bases. It grew from a regional Northeast business to an international business, but continued to operate from the same mid-sized factory in Brooklyn it had used since its inception, and with the same small but skilled workforce.
Delany at the same time was one of an estimated 37,000 small-to-medium-sized, predominantly family-owned manufacturers in the New York metropolitan area. Manufacturing then employed more than a million people in the region, and generated an additional several hundred thousand jobs in Northern New Jersey and Connecticut, running to nearly thirty percent of the working population.
This is my family’s story — the story of one small company. It is not all that remarkable, just another tale of a once proud American family business lost to offshoring. Wall Street insists that it’s a globalized world now, and we all need to learn to compete on its terms. But Delany was remarkable to the people it served and sustained.
At its peak, it employed seventy people, enabled them to support their families, and taught them skills that some used to start their own companies. This is how not only businesses but entire local economies are built. Take that away, and the communities these local economies sustain wither and die. Farrish recalled his protégé in the machining department, JD Palmer, taking the skills he honed in Delany’s machine division to open his own small engine repair and metal machining shop. He couldn’t have done this without the experience of working for Delany.
What happened to Delany happened all over America.
But for the first time in many years, there is a hope of revival. With President Trump, our manufacturers finally have an advocate who is fighting for them, and trying to end our addiction to artificially cheap imports. Because the American manufacturing base has been so hollowed out, it will take time to rebuild our factories and bring jobs home. As we restructure our economy from a financial economy to a productive economy, there will be near-term pain, but if we bear it and push through to the other side, we can once again have a country with an industrial base that sustains our communities, our security, and our prosperity.

3- It is unimaginable to us that this woman has the audacity to show her face in public, much less on cable TV.

Randi Weingarten has overseen the biggest disasters in public education in the history of public education. There is no matrix, chart, or study that shows any positive results in children’s education. In fact, she has been the boss for almost two decades of decline across the board. And that is before we dig into the devastating results that came from her keeping children out of school during Covid-CCP.

So, when we saw that Fox News and Martha MacCallum came at her with the true facts, we had to share. Randi’s gross condescension of McCallum is an extra prize because it displays the left’s attitude toward anyone who challenges them on their failures.

Go to the link for the video.

The Gateway Pundit

Martha MacCallum Obliterates Condescending Teacher Union Boss Randi Weingarten During Fiery Segment on America’s Failing Schools

QUOTE: One of America’s biggest villains received an epic beating on Fox News when she tried to defend the indefensible and insulted her interviewer.
Randi Weingarten, the President of the American Federation of Teachers, is the chief proponent of trapping everyone in failing public schools and refusing to hold crooked school authority figures accountable.
She was also arguably the loudest advocate for shutting down schools during the COVID-19 pandemic, which caused irreparable harm to the cognitive development of many children across the country.
Weingarten was invited on Fox News’s “The Story with Martha MacCallum” to discuss the ongoing public school failures and pornographic books prevalent throughout school libraries. Things got heated quickly when MacCallum lit up Weingarten for slamming school choice and for saying we should throw more money at the problem.
“So, if we can find other areas around the country where the proficiency levels are also ABYSMAL and should be embarrassing to every education organization, then we can start making assessments and say it’s because of (school) choice or money,” MacCallum said. “We know that money does not equate to a better outcome.”
MacCallum cited an example from New Jersey that proves her astute point. Upon hearing this, Weingarten lost her patience and attempted to patronize the Fox News anchor.
“Martha, Martha, sweetheart,” she began before an angry MacCallum cut her off.
“Don’t call me sweetheart!” MacCallum fired back.
Weingarten continued to stammer and utter nonsense about how public school funding benefits primarily red districts and states, citing Mississippi as an example of where education outcomes have improved. But MacCallum once again bodied her with another inconvenient truth.
“One of the things they have done in Mississippi is to expand (school) choice, MacCallum said. “They’re also doing something really important, which is to expand teacher training because they understand that teachers themselves do not understand the things they are supposed to be teaching.”