I saw this a couple of days ago, and it was so intriguing, I had to hang on to it, figuring there would be a time it would come in handy.
Little did I know our president would go into the United Nations General Assembly today with a flamethrower and give me the perfect opportunity to illustrate one of the scorched remnants of European superiority he left smoking on the expensive carpet in that room.
When the man told them that their countries were going to fail.
IF YOU DON'T GET AWAY FROM THE GREEN ENERGY SCAM,
YOUR COUNTRY IS GOING TO FAIL
IF YOU DON'T STOP PEOPLE THAT YOU'VE NEVER SEEN BEFORE, THAT YOU HAVE NOTHING IN COMMON WITH,
YOUR COUNTRY IS GOING TO FAIL
President Trump to Europe: "If you don't get away from the green energy scam, your country is going to fail. If you don't stop people that you've never seen before, that you have nothing in common with, your country is going to fail... You are destroying your heritage." pic.twitter.com/6sBvSy0lMy
— Greg Price (@greg_price11) September 23, 2025
They are failing already. Circling the drain.
This was one of the wildest economic charts I've ever seen.
The tiny little state of Mississippi, long a butt of snide Northern jokes alongside sister state Alabama, has been clawing its way out of poverty and ignorance one child and job at a time.
They're calling the education system turnaround the 'Mississippi Miracle.'
In a surprising turnaround, Mississippi, once ranked near the bottom of U.S. education standings, has dramatically improved its student literacy rates.
As of 2023, the state ranks among the top 20 for fourth grade reading, a significant leap from its 49th-place ranking in 2013. This transformation was driven by evidence-based policy reforms focused on early literacy and teacher development.
The rest of the country might want to take note.
That’s because Mississippi’s success offers a proven solution to the reading literacy crisis facing many states – a clear road map for closing early literacy gaps and improving reading outcomes nationwide.
The economically disadvantaged children of the state are excelling and proving that poverty and ethnicity have no bearing on learning when the educational emphasis is on quality.
Mississippi’s public schools delivered good news last month. The results of the bi-annual national assessment dubbed The Nation’s Report Card are in, and Mississippi’s public school teachers and students excelled. Among their notable achievements are:
- 1st in the nation for academic growth in grade 4 reading and math since 2011
- 9th in the nation in grade 4 reading
- 16th in the nation in grade 4 math
- 1st in the nation in reading and second in math – Mississippi’s Hispanic 4th-graders compared to their Hispanic peers in all other states
- 1st in the nation in reading and second in math – Mississippi’s economically disadvantaged 4th graders compared to their economically disadvantaged peers in all other states
- 3rd in the nation in reading and math – Mississippi’s African American 4th-graders compared to their African American peers in all other states
Better-educated children feel they have a future, and that's what Mississippi will need to pull itself out of the economic malaise that's kept it wallowing at the bottom of the country's fiscal ladder.
They can do it, but we all know the hard work and perseverance it will take.
Last year, Mississippi's economic growth ranked second nationally, with a terrific 4.2% increase, and it notched the fourth-best gains in personal income nationally.
They are on the right track.
To the point Trump made today about Europeans squandering their once tremendous economies to chase climate cult fever dreams and woke policies?
Mississippi's per capita GDP (divides a country's total economic output by its population to show the average economic output per person) beats that of Italy, Spain, and France.
Eye-opening. Mississippi,the poorest state in the US, with the lowest GDP per capita, is richer than Italy, Spain and France. Are you entertained? pic.twitter.com/txWrBgTuyB
— Michael A. Arouet (@MichaelAArouet) September 20, 2025
What have they done to themselves?
THE UNITED KINGDOM TODAY IS, ON AVERAGE PER PERSON, 40% POORER THAN THE AVERAGE PERSON IN THE UNITED STATES
“Eye-opening. Mississippi,the poorest state in the US, with the lowest GDP per capita, is richer than Italy, Spain and France.”
— Douglas Ritz (@douglasritz) September 20, 2025
Most of the UK is there as well.
We the EU says that they are going to “rebuild” Ukraine, they are lying. They don’t even have the money to “rebuild”… pic.twitter.com/q2ivhF0gNE
...The poorest state in the United States today is Mississippi. If the United Kingdom were a member of the United States, they would be poorer than Mississippi. And the poorer states in the US have the benefit of actually growing at a pretty decent clip - 2,3,4% per year. Compared to 1% for the UK...
What did Trump warn about energy and failure?
What is the UK in the process of doing? Preparing for failure.
‘Companies will be lost’ as energy fees double for metal industry
Businesses in defence, automotive, aerospace and construction supply chains made uncompetitive by rocketing standing charges and levies
Manufacturing and engineering firms are warning the government that it has “crossed the line” by signing off a series of painful increases in their power bills to pay for upgrades to Britain’s creaking energy infrastructure and for a subsidy system that only protects a few large firms.
The charges start rising from October 1 and by next April companies that use electricity to power their processes will see their standing charge and additional levies roughly double, brokers say.
For a firm spending £300,000 a year on electricity, the standing charges will rise from £32,000 to £64,000. As a result, the so-called non-commodity charges will form 60 to 65 per cent of a company’s total energy bills, incurred irrespective of the amount of electricity consumed, brokers added.
The government-approved charges are to help meet the cost of running the National Grid transmission system, planned upgrades, and also net zero-related schemes. From November a new charge is also to be levied on all businesses to help pay for the construction of the Sizewell C nuclear plant.
The higher energy bills appear to run counter to government claims in its industrial strategy in June to be reducing the burden of green levies to slow the de-industrialisation of Britain’s economy.
“We have these shockwaves coming into the system that people don’t expect. We will end up getting to net zero by having no industry. We will lose companies over this, without a doubt. They cannot afford this increase," warned the president of the Confederation of British… pic.twitter.com/tveAKBDhvi
— Net Zero Watch (@NetZeroWatch) September 23, 2025
...We will lose companies over this, without a doubt. They cannot afford this increase," warned the president of the Confederation of British Metalforming, as the government signs off a series of painful increases in their power bills to pay for upgrades to Britain’s creaking energy infrastructure and for a subsidy system that only protects a few large firms.
On the march, Mississippi will catch a faltering Germany - once the industrial juggernaut of the continent, but now known as the Sick Man of Europe - within two years.
Perhaps less.
Mississippi will catch Germany within two years unless there is a major shift ... pic.twitter.com/y07ZyIPmYh
— Erebus (@hyperionca) September 20, 2025
Trump was right about their countries failing, but sometimes I think maybe we don't understand the European mindset. It's most assuredly different than ours.
All you have to do is watch almost any one of them lurch from bad decision to doubling down on something obviously worse. Or manipulate the will of the people for their own opposite ends - firewalls, and election candidates' wheeling dealings, etc - and you realize:
FAILURE IS AN OPTION
In the United States, even our 'poor' states don't have to stay that way when the right people get elected or take over the schools and get down to the business of success for everyone.
Rising tides are wonderful things, and I'll wave especially happily as Mississippi sails on past those smug ass Germans.
Happy to say, 'Trump was right again, you know.'
I know it'll sting.
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