“It’s the economy, stupid.”

~James Carville, 1992

I’m not a James Carville fan, hardly, but he was spot on then, and it’s spot on now, as it is every day, no matter what the calendar on the wall is telling us where we are.

No matter what people might say, the #1 driving force in their life is $$$ money $$$, honey, it’s all about the $$$ money $$$. The Shekels, the Euros, the Pounds, the Francs, the $$$.

The #1 driving force in everything occurring in the Middle East is all about $$$ money $$$.

The India-Middle East-Europe-Economic Corridor Plan [IMEC].

All about the $$$.

Touted as a plan to take on communist China, which it will if and when it is operational, providing all the pieces fall into place. But…

The India-Middle East Corridor: A new Silk Route or diplomacy by PowerPoint? | Middle East Eye

India–Middle East–Europe Economic Corridor – Wikipedia

…also opening the way to align the forces of evil even greater against Israel and the West.

People can say all they want about the priority of family, peace, how they love their jobs, they love God, they care most about _________ – but when the money is touched, lessened, when their personal economy is impacted it’s soon discovered the real #1 in their life is the $$$.

It’s what every political deal is founded upon. What gets people out of bed. What drives every aspect of every life on earth. The money. Acquiring it. Using it. Protecting it. Making it. And tragically, loving it to the point it becomes the idol of worship above all else, contrary to what the words may say — it’s what the heart reveals, what fruit is borne.

Just reality. Someone has to say it. Stop pretending the overwhelming majority do not have, make money their idol, their god, what they worship most of all.

Money in and of itself is not a bad thing. In fact, it’s a very good thing. A gift, a blessing from God, and EVERY $$$, every Euro, every Pound, every Deutchmark, every Yen is provided to every individual by God.

Yes, it’s all about the economy.

The $$$ money $$$.

Don’t believe this? Ponder then why it is that when the Antichrist arrives on the scene, and it is REQUIRED to take his name in the flesh, in order TO BUY OR SELL, and it is written that any person who takes that MARK, his name in their flesh will be cast into hell for eternity with no possibility of receiving the free gift of grace, salvation?

It’s all about the money. Satan has made sure of it. And the people, in their weakness, in their blindness, have made it easier and easier each passing year for Satan’s son of perdition to appear, and the fulfillment of every word of Bible prophecy.

Those who love God, follow Jesus, are indwelt by the Holy Spirit, and will NOT take the mark, the name of the beast, in their flesh. And they will not be able to buy or sell.

So, tell me, once more, what is the priority on this small spinning sphere God created a while ago?

What consumes people, drives people, causes wars, and world leaders to fly about here, there, and everywhere for closed-door meetings and deal after deal?

Read on…

Ken Pullen, Wednesday, November 12th, 2025

Trump’s Economic Advantage Is Disappearing Fast

November 11, 2025

By Rob Bluey

Reprinted from The Daily Signal

During the 2024 presidential campaign, pollster Scott Rasmussen predicted that voters would pick their preferred candidate based on how they perceived their personal finances.

Needless to say, it didn’t go well for Kamala Harris.

Four years of rising prices and record-high inflation doomed the Democrat ticket—even though Joe Biden wasn’t on the ballot. Harris didn’t help herself when she flubbed a softball question from Sunny Hostin and couldn’t come up with anything she’d do differently from Biden. Voters responded by handing President Donald Trump a commanding victory.

At the time, only 24% of voters said their personal finances were improving, according to RMG Research’s polling for the Napolitan Institute. Conversely, 41% said their personal finances were getting worse.

“People’s perception of whether their personal finances are improving is the single most important indicator of how they will vote,” Rasmussen told me last year, shortly before Election Day.

Fast forward to 2025 and it’s now Trump who is facing his own challenges on the economy, which remains the single most important issue on the minds of Americans. Rasmussen asked the question again last week and found that just 26% of respondents think their personal finances are improving compared to 39% who say they’re getting worse.

Americans haven’t been this pessimistic since they elected Trump to clean up the Biden-Harris mess.

26% of voters say their finances are getting better, and another 39% say they are getting worse

This is the most pessimistic voters have been since before the 2024 election.

Survey of 1,000 registered voters by @ScottWRasmussen pic.twitter.com/dwnIa6Mjhc

— Napolitan News Service (@NapolitanNews) November 7, 2025

If these poll numbers aren’t already a warning sign for Trump and Republicans in Congress, they need to recognize the threat. The window will quickly close on the GOP’s governing agenda, putting their political prospects in peril ahead of next year’s midterms.

Democrats are already salivating at the prospect of turning Trump’s economic advantage into a liability. Look no further than last week’s elections in New Jersey and Virginia, where Democrats Mikie Sherrill and Abigail Spanberger used voters’ economic anxiety against their Republican rivals—and won decisive victories as a result. The outcome was even worse for Republicans in the Virginia House of Delegates, where Democrats will have at least 64 of the 100 seats in January.

Even more alarming, New York City voters elected an unabashed socialist who promised to make affordability the centerpiece of his agenda as mayor. When have socialists ever made anything affordable? It didn’t matter.

In response to Zohran Mamdani’s win, Ohio gubernatorial candidate Vivek Ramaswamy warned his fellow Republicans to take notice.

“Our side needs to focus on affordability,” Ramaswamy said in a viral social media video. “Make the American dream affordable. Bring down costs—electric costs, grocery costs, health care costs and housing costs—and lay out how we’re going to do it.”

Lessons from tonight, no sugar coating. pic.twitter.com/CMZCIH4g2O

— Vivek Ramaswamy (@VivekGRamaswamy) November 5, 2025

Rasmussen attributed some of voters’ economic anxiety to the government shutdown, which began Oct. 1 and is nearing an end this week.

“This is a stunning collapse in confidence, coming as more and more people feel the impact of the government shutdown,” Rasmussen told The Daily Signal. “We have been tracking this measure of economic confidence for years because it is the most important political indicator for any election cycle. People were very pessimistic throughout the Biden era, but pessimism began to decline as soon as Trump won the election. Now, all of those gains have been wiped out and voters are just as pessimistic about their finances as they were on the even of the 2024 election.”

Trump, to his credit, has turned his attention to the economy in recent days. Tuesday night, during an appearance on “The Ingraham Angle,” host Laura Ingraham pressed the president on the subject.

“The economy is my thing,” Trump said on Fox News. “And we have the greatest economy in history.”

He then chided his fellow Republicans for failing to tout the economic success stories—from lower gas prices to the cost of a Thanksgiving meal.

“The Democrats give false talk and the Republicans, and I say it all the time, Republicans have to talk about the fact that prices are down,” Trump said.

Using the bully pulpit is one way to convince Americans that things are improving, but Trump can’t do it alone. There’s certainly no time to waste. Another poll from the Napolitan Institute this week found voter sentiment heading in the wrong direction with 39% believing we’re already in a recession.