I run a business flipping houses and remodeling rental properties. I was talking to the owner of the electrical supply house in our county yesterday and he told me they sold the last 200 amp meter base they had in stock the day before. They were probably one of the last stores in Tennessee that had any in stock. You can't build a house without one.
He also told me our power company has been removing transformers that are feeding barns or workshops. They don't have any spares to fix broken transformers in residential areas so they are stealing them from places that affect the fewest people. They haven't received any new transformers in several months.
The areas affected by the tornados last week are calling utility companies everywhere trying to find transformers and poles to repair the damage but there are very many spares left. He said if that storm had hit our county, he didn't think we would have the parts to get the power turned back on any time soon.
Crazy times ahead.
Demoralization > Destabilization > Crisis > Normalization
But you know, we gotta wait until more are awake. Wait long enough so that instead of 1984, we get brave new world.
Can’t convince a fool they’ve been fooled. Gotta trick them into figuring it out themselves.
can't convince american owners and managers to retain in-country manufacturing vs off-shoring. "sometimes you have to SHOW people"
The rot is deep, gotta destroy in order to rebuild. Can’t build on top of the rot, nothing will get fixed that way. Demolish and rebuild. Looks like Biden and the Dems are gonna be the one to take the blame for the demo job imo.
You just quoted one of my favorite lines in my favorite TV show.
God bless you, sir!
"4-6% will be lost forever."
Hopefully this 4-6% is not us.
This!
But it reminds me of a meme i saw today. "If you want to take my freedom, make damn sure that youre as passionate about taking it as i am about keeping it."
Your opinion is bad and you should feel bad.
You want all out war? Youd be falling for the dumbest and oldest trick in humanity. Get off the fucking internet and worry about improving your day to day if your at your fucking limits. 95% of this shit doesn't and won't affect you weather you accept that fact or not. If there is no plan, then there is literally nothing you could ever do in your entire lifetime to thwart it. Meaning losing your fucking shit about it and begging for it out war is only hurting you.
If anyone has done any research whatsoever they would realize that the people in control of the planet have had their grip on humanity for an incredible length of time. Physical war suits them the most. It allows them to get away with heinous shit, cover up things needed to be covered up, etc.
Physical war would also just result in annihilation. First off you have half the country thinking we are nazi terrorists. The other half thinks those people are commies. Best part this Country isn't divided by North and South any longer. lol these people are your fucking neighbors. All out war in the US would mean destruction. Far more suffering than what is currently happening. And another World War would be equally devastating. What other militaries are capable of should scare you. Another large scale War would fuck the entire planet up. In more ways than one.
Only way we get through this is with a ridiculously genius elaborate plan, and god. We are at that point in history. We are at a tipping point and we have fucked ourselves by being so complacent. Most of this wouldn't be a problem if so many people didn't buy into the brain washing or for parents to do a shit job with their kids. If the country wasn't so divided we wouldn't need a plan where there is a chance not everyone makes it through.
And like I said in the beginning. The evil that has been in control is so rich and powerful nothing but their total annihilation would save this planet.
^^^WISDOM
Except this time we're not going to fucking allow it.
This is what happens when you rely on China for this shit.
It's time to harness electricity the way we always should have been. Not through some middleman monoply who monitors and throttles your usage.
It may be an inconvienient 'dark winter' for us in the the short term. But the real pain will be felt by the soon-to-be-obsolete power monopolies.
Nikola Tesla had this shit dialed down over 100 years ago.
There are many Teslas in our midst today. Ready to rise above the cabal at the drop of a blackhat.
You mean the free power grid that they took away as part of the great reset ~100 years ago? That is some trippy shit tbh.
I want to know how to harness it from the ether. I've been diving deep into old world tech and now it's all standing out to me. I just don't now how they did it.
I have been hearing this from many contractors in my area.....
Wiring for houses hard to get too
weird, there are panels, breakers and wire (all kinds) fully in stock at my local Home Depot. Lowe’s too. And Menards. Took me about 10sec to find them online. Not sure why you guys are having issues in your regions. Apparently the midwest isn’t seeing the same problems 🤷
When I search Home Depot’s website for a 200 amp meter base, shows out of stock. Doesn’t seem to matter what location I search it shows the same. Lowes too. I had to drive to three different stores today to find drywall mud. Maybe your town is different than the rest of the country. Can you get chips for new trucks too? Lol (kidding)
https://files.catbox.moe/qfr5yr.jpeg
and that ^ is in the chicago area as my VPN defaults to that area. in my actual location there are many more options available.
Really though, with a stock of 2 and without knowing when supplies will arrive isn't exactly confidence inspiring.
dude, that’s in a store in chicago and it’s not like Home Depot ever had dozens of 200 amp service boxes in stock before all this supply chain crap, they’re not an electrical supply store. not to mention most urban home owners aren’t even working with 200amp service to start with. idk what you want to hear, im just showing you that this supply panic simply isn’t happening in the same way in all places. seems like the eastern seaboard and the west coast are the hotspots of all the supply issues and i guess that makes some sense - isn’t that where the majority of Americans live? Just showing you that in the most densely populated city in the midwest, 200 amp boxes can in fact be had. maybe see if they’ll ship to ya ;)
You seem to have taken that as continuation of argument.
I agree, home depot is not the best measure. And actually, I thought 100 A service was more common.
What I CAN speak to:
Sheet metal (about 50-100 sheets per week 14-22 guage) is about 3 weeks lead time when typical was 1 week.
copper pipe: lead time is so high that the facility is using heavier Guage material (usually an extra cost for higher pressure operation) so that they can keep feeding the machines
wiring: 1-2 weeks extra lead time
motors: was 4-6 weeks now 10-12 weeks
electronics: up to 26 weeks lead time from typical 2 weeks. Yes. 26 weeks out of 52 weeks.
electrical connectors: orders are placed in 5k lots, when they have been showing up has been 1k at a time.
It isn't at a supply "panic" levels, but for manufacturing purposes there I definitely significant delays in materials.
That’s not a meter base. That’s a breaker panel.
They're locking up the big rolls of 14/2 in Toronto area! Short supply and ppl are stealing them!
I am anticipated that and bought 2000 feet last July for my upcoming remodel.
And expensive if you can get it.
Yeah it is ... I had to use an extension cord to power an outlet I added. I didn't have wire at home, but still cut everything out and ran conduit to the outlet to make the final install simple. Ran to the stores, couldn't find any wiring. Thanks Brandon!
I can't believe people are stupid enough to believe that these shortages are the result of some roaring economy and post-COVID recovery.
The semiconductor shortage is going to lead to massive job losses very soon.
I'm so glad all of these companies saved all of that money fabricating pretty critical shit in China (well, Taiwan, but it seems the Commies have some heavy influence there). I hope they fucking implode. Idiots.
Well pumps and tanks are also in short supply in the northeast. Mine blew up last month and the repair guy only had a few left in his workshop. Supply warehouses get them only sporadically now.
Seems like we are completely severing trade with China, and it’s gonna be weird for awhile. How do you get America to start building shit again? You make it profitable and attractive. How do you do that? You cut off the supply coming from foreign slave labor and commie China government subsidizing.
We are paying the price of decades of our government selling out our businesses to the Chinese. All of that shit we gotta start making again.
I wish there was a way to track all of this down to its root manufacturing points and see where the bottlenecks are. My hunch is that we are at war with China and the EO kicked in and now we are punishing them economically.
You pay more in the long run when you purchase poorly made products from Chyna at a cheap price and then have to replace them very frequently. By quality and the product will last.
I can't see how making cheap shit here isn't a viable alternative. "Cheap" as recent as 30 years ago (for tools at least) meant that you'll get at least 10 years out of it.
The first ratchet I ever broke in my life was a Harbor Freight one ... I impulse bought something there that I thought was well built. It wasn't their bottom of the barrel no-name stuff, but the crap that's slightly better than their "Pittsburgh" line of tools. I went to use it to remove some bolts on a timing chain cover ... it wasn't anything crazy and the ratchet was sold as something that could easily handle that kind of torque. It frigging broke after the third bolt was removed.
They only offered me an exchange or store credit. I no longer buy anything there. It's hot garbage.
The chinese can make solid products. However, their good stuff rarely makes it to the USA ... the only things companies import from China to sell are garbage so that their bottom line looks great. Most of these companies that have their product manufactured in China deal with places that are run by idiots. Since they "save" so much in labor, they can handle yields in the 70% range and profit off them like mad.
You'd think that they'd have things done right the first time, but when you show some cash obsessed piece of shit that labor costs will be lower, they'll sign off on production ... if you use a better company to fabricate something, the cost is higher. Since the bean counter only counts on the bottom line, they'll only sign off on the shitty version since consumers are trained to expect everything to break in a year or two. Some of these companies would have been out of business in the 50s/60s ... people were far less tolerant of garbage products back then.
People here want cheap but also want the workers who make it to be paid top dollar. Can't have it both ways
I agree. There used to be companies in the US who made products that were high quality, medium quality, or low quality, and they were affordable. There is no reason it can't be done again. Tariffs work great to stop the products made with cheap slave labor from flooding and dominating the market. Unfortunately, politicians were asleep at the wheel while the Chynees did just that. It was only when President Trump slapped the tariffs on the imported garbage did some manufacturing start a comeback.
Yes. Like the coffeemaker and the chainsaw and furniture. It all has to come home and be produced here so we're independent.
God I love your username!
As I college kid I knew Wild Bill Clinton was damaging America when he welcomed China into the WTO. I buy American every chance I get, and have never owned a foreign car and never will.
The return to American manufacturing will be very innovative and glorious. It will be a long struggle to return my industry here, but certainly attainable. Hopefully the millennials can learn from the experienced folk that used to run the industries and carry the torch onward.
As a college kid, I marveled at how all the MSM could talk about was Bill's saxophone and the Republicans trying to impeach him because he got a blow job.
Meanwhile, we knew he was taking money from the Chinese if we were paying attention.
"Just a blow job" angers me. It had nothing to do with that. It was the lying under oath that enraged the right.
Clinton got a slap on the wrist for a crime that ~ 200 people in the USA were in jail for at that time. The media all but gave the signal that lying is OK now if you're a Democrat.
If any normal person would have done what he did, they would have been in jail for at least 5 years. It was nice of the media to explain that.
It wasn't even about the lying under oath.
It was about burying the shady Whitewater real estate deal, and the $1,000 Hillary invested in cattle futures that magically turned into nearly $100,000 in under a year.
New York Times - Hillary Clinton Turned $1,000 Into $99,540, White House Says
By Stephen Labaton
March 30, 1994
https://archive.md/pioXU
The blowie was a felony itself
at least he didn't have sex.
No. He saved that for the minors.
Also, I'm pretty sure Bill was blackmailed over that whole incident. That fucker and his cunt wife wanted to look squeaky clean. I have little doubt the prick would have done anything to prevent that story from coming out.
100% on board with this.
Only problem is that we don't know how to make alot of stuff anymore. It's going to be a steep steeo learning curve if they can e en get employees and start up money in this environment. If you go too far back into the stone ages you can't really rebuild
.
Looks like it's already time to start mining the landfills.
"landfills are the goldmines of the future"
These are all items we should be able to manufacture here in the US without much problem assuming steel is available. We rely on foreign manufacturing too much.
It’s threads like these that make me feel somewhat better about many of the choices I have made over the past 5 years. Some of them include stockpiling candles, installing wood cook stove for heating and cooking, long-term packaging tons of flour/sugar/yeast/salt/dry grains, buying years and years worth of seeds and hydroponic gardening nutrients and supplies, spending my free time collecting thousands of mason jars/lids/canning supplies, having a well drilled with emergency hand pump capability, building coops and brooders and raising my own chickens for meat and eggs, planting a 60 tree orchard, and prebuying all building materials for several other upcoming projects as I watched farm/feed store inventories declining and not being replenished. Are the lights/electricity going out..? I sure hope not, but I have become more and more skeptical of relying on others over the years and I’d like to have some way to take care of my family and NOT have to rely on others or the government to take care of me.......after they will have likely caused the crisis requiring care.
I can’t predict what is coming, but I can surely take some educated guesses and prepare. That little prick Fauci talks about more viruses and variants and I buy more hydroxychloroquine and Ivermectin. Gates starts mentioning smallpox pandemic and then suddenly strange vials are found in Philadelphia that are either smallpox vaccines or cultures and I order some bottles of sarracenia purpurea. I’m just doing what I can.
Other than some of things I have mentioned above does anyone have some other good ideas for prep items? I’m always about 1 year ahead on toilet paper/toothbrushes/soap and other hygiene supplies as well. Other ideas welcome!
And it's posts like yours that make me feel like a slacker when I thought I was doing good 😟 Great job!!!
Never enough time especially when traveling for work. Going into 16 straight days home now will have a 4 acre pasture fenced in for the pigs and turkeys coming this Spring. Smokehouse/dehydrator next. Ima be dug in here like an Alabama tick come what may. God speed anons!
If you or your family (pets) are dependent on any meds you may want to stock up on what every you can now.
Not just contractors. Manufacturing is being hit as well.
Wiring, copper, steel, even plastics are just disappearing (or bought up and not being replenished).
Tried to argue that under the circumstances, would be prudent to double or triple stock and order it prematurely while possible.
I'll take "what happens when we outsource all our manufacturing sector to China" for 1000, Alex
So…if I started a business building transformers I’d get wealthy? Being an electronics engineer I can tell you that transformers are simple to build. New project ahead!!!
Do it. We need to make this stuff domestically anyway.
Already looking into specs & drawings etc.
Next look into the 3000 page binders of government regulations before Biden adds the 2000 pages back Trump removed during his administration!
Make certain steel for containers and cores are available and sufficient copper for the windings. May want to bring back the PCBs for super efficient cooling-cancer risks these days are somewhat overrated..
I’ve read a shitton on it today. Whew!
I have worked for a couple of electric motor repair/supply companies and the one in Denver had the ability to refurbish transformers but not rebuild. the containers could be repurposed...
I read a DOE document today (ugh) where there was a call to refurbish but the government claimed all-new only, no rebuilds, or something to that effect!!!
A regulation that favors China no doubt...
I’m thinkin there’s a market right there? Rebuild/refurb whichever?
Absolutely! Eliminate regulation, provide new external parts and if the old transformer was not a subject of fire, simply allow the refurb..
I never thought tje Transformers were going to get us this way.
Decepticons taking out the transformers.
Hmm....
Matrix is getting very thinly veiled.
Generators are generating an interesting purchase.
Just goes to show you.. you can't trust a robot even if it looks like a Camaro
There's always more than meets the eye you know.
I don’t know if the transformer itself comes from China but I can guarantee the materials to make them do.
China.we moved the ones for power plants at the rail
We were traveling when lumber prices were through the roof, and we saw about a mile of railroad cars loaded with lumber sitting still on the tracks. This is probably about speculation.
I can say for a fact that most of the transformers and switching equipment is made in china. That is based on 3 people I know who work for DWP. So, the trade embargo aka diesel emissions excuse with china is causing shit to stack up. As others have mentioned, I hope that this will teach us a lesson to buy and build American.
Two days ago I had to buy a new car battery. It was the last one of that type the AAA guy had in his truck at 10 a.m. already and he said the car battery supply is getting tight too. And on ebay solar stuff is going fast and prices escalating. Is this fallout from the supply chain blockade?
And materials in general. I build houses for a living. Windows earlier this year took 8-9 weeks. Almost three time longer than the previous year. Today...current windows we just ordered.....16 weeks. We’re having to go to a much higher priced window, it’s not better just higher priced, to get them back down to 8-9 weeks. Beam material 6 weeks out. It’s not getting better at all. New norm perhaps.
Another section of Atlas Shrugged come to life... Who IS John Galt????
I am John Galt.
I would like to come visit you in your office.
When would be a good time?
Tuesday at 4:00, central time.
Is Dagny gonna be there?
Cuz unlike the book... I'm gonna get started with that early...
No, Dagny is off with her steel magnate boytoy.
Donnie may be the boldest John Galt of all time. Holding the strike meetings around the world under cover of being President. Right under everyone's noses!
Soon, the Engine of the World will be stopped and then the very best WILL come... 💖😎
We need ppl with capital to invest in manufacturing companies that can produce our shortages!
You hit the nail on the head.
Build anything related to manufacturing in the USA, and you'll be probed in ways not thought to be humanly possible.
Gotta get the raw materials from somewhere. To many regulations in place that prevent most plastics and resins from being made locally.
That's what I have been thinking. I am not sure about large transformers but some of the things people are talking about shouldn't be difficult to manufacture. I would imagine the machinery needed to manufacture these items is equally hard to get. Unless we re-purpose old machines to make them or even re-purpose the machines to manufacture the goods that are needed.
I think there’s some sort of glass shortage on top of everything else. Maybe the looters /kek
I have been trying to buy these glass shelves for months and they are constantly out of stock. Very frustrating.
There's an American made window/ glass factory in my town, it's called PGT/ vinyltech I'm sure you've probably already heard of them, but just in case you haven't here's a link. https://www.pgtwindows.com/vinyl/
Of course they might be short too, but it's in Florida, which is still getting shipping through, so maybe not
How else are they going to keep housing supply low?
No breakers or panels in canada as well. If a customer needs a feder pioneer breaker we have to to put in a pony panel with a eaton. But even those are almost out.
I work for a power company. Our transformers are on back-order for at least 12 months. Some are 24 months. Meter bases are 10 months out. Luckily since our CEO is a based republican we stocked up immediately on ALL inventory before shit hit the fan. We're ready to weather the storm here. The big concern at least in my state is the coal pile at the coal-fired power plants. Coal is being sold to Europe and China for 250$ a ton. We typically buy ours for 20$ a ton. And every year ahead of winter we stockpile it up so if there is a bad winter we have the excess coal we need to compensate for extra heaters etc being turned on. That means that the miner's are selling the shit to china and europe instead of us because they are paying a much higher price. Leaving us majorly vulnerable if we were to get hit with a major snowstorm. Everyone should have a generator and ample food stocked up. Also you should research how to make a wood-gasifier for if shit gets really really bad and gasoline stops moving and all power shuts off. Cheers!
I have a theory on these shortages. I believe the military may be involved. Holding supplies for when/if the war goes hot. May be why this movie is so long.
Had the same thought that they're stockpiling for war.
No matter how you look at it, this is ultimately the elite class waging a very real war on the middle class and common people just for existing.
lol This is exactly why Trump started trade wars againt China it is maddness to relocate manufacturing of essential parts to Chy-na
Imagine this scenario, real Solar flare burst into China's side.
All the world stops! Science and knowledge is there but somehow we are forced into 19 century for 2 years while `factories are rebuilt one by one on each continent
And, this is where we'll discover all of the Catch-22s. You can't build A because you don't have B. You can't make more of B, because C is backordered, etc., etc.
And very few people know how to make D, and most of them are retired.
FTFY
This right here! That knowledge is gone with them and the younger generations can't even figure out how to use a manual can opener. These DS assholes knew exactly what they were doing.
man if they planned this when Lewinski smoked with Billy in WH ... hat off to them...
But, I saw some rich anons around here ..... get the fuck building those parts frens.
Its not that hard to invest ROI should be fantastic ...
Alright, please answer this for someone who just flips the switch to get the light. Are you basically talking about the big breaker boxes? Is that what/where the 200 amp meter base is located? And that supplies power to the entire house, right? So what was the guy's explanation? Are they all just floating in those ships off California or has there been a concerted effort to stop production? Because this could bring a complete stand still to a lot of industries ..
The meter plugs into the meter base and that supplies the power to the house.
Oh, okay. So not the circuit breaker box. Got ya. This is pretty concerning news. Thanks.
The breakers inside your house are getting really difficult to find too. So are the pluming and electrical components made from pvc, like electrical boxes inside the walls.
I had to go to three stores to find some PVC pipe over the summer. I ended up finding it in a tiny, small town hardware store.
What do you think is going on?
Forcing us to bring back the manufacturing to our country for our safety, security and jobs creation. Cut our ties and dependence with the enemy. Let’s get this show on the road, shall we?
Renovator here. In not an electrician. But was extremely hard to get 15amp breakers in july/August! I can only imagine now!
And then Commiefornia has banned gas generators. IT'S BRIGHT AS DAYLIGHT.
do they have battery powered generators? How do you recharge the battery?
Wind or sun
Wait, what?!?!?! When did this happen?
Did they really?
Imagine the REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE that is coming when libtards run out of everything.
Suddenly gardening and canning isn't such a boomer activity after all, eh Emily?
Someone had a great meme about how the people are about to find out why granny saved her cool whip bowls and washed her tin foil.
Well good, so that's solved then.
Lol I noticed that too. OP you meant to say, "there are very few spares left."
Oops. Yes, very FEW spares available.
Supposed to say “weren’t very many spares left”
Future tip: you can edit the post in case of typos.
we can thank our shit politicians that pushed our companies to get landfill-grade products made from china by pushing all this global warming bullshit and instead of making that stuff here in the good ol USA... EVERTHING comes from china. DON'T BUY SHIT MADE IN CHINA!!!
So is this due to someone higher up ordering things to be a certain way, or as innocent as a shortage? People are buying up all the generators, that’s for sure. I’m in Texas and last weekend we heard a huge explosion/pop noise outside, all the power went out in our neighborhood. Blown transformer. It was fixed within 2 hours.
That pop could have been a shotgun fuse cutting power. Not neccisarily the transformer itself. Given the 2 hour repair time, I would guess it was the fuse.
Not 100% certain, but oncor did come out to service the pole. 🤷
I know a guy who works for the power company near me (he's one of the guys who is sent out when wires/poles go down after bad storms). From what told me, the actual transformers are at critical supply.
I agree with CherokeePede, that if your power was restored within a couple hours, it was just a fuse... if the whole transformer blew then you would have been without power for much longer.
Interesting. I live in a neighborhood where the homes are from the 60s-70s. Seems like it’s about that time for everything to be wearing out. I just replaced all of my plumbing in my home and never knew the time line for certain materials (lead/PVC/copper/etc).
We’re stocked up on things to do and read with no power. Ready for the NWO to start. Lol
There is a time line on homes with aluminum wiring installed-many were converted but I am certain there are many more out there waiting for the oxidation sizzle...
Majority of the piping under my house (pier and beam) was galvanized pipe that was corroding and terrible. A lot of the wiring in my home is old as hell and we’ve slowly been remodeling the house. Which leaves me to say the removal of the down vote on YouTube has been a pain in the ass watching remodeling videos
I can confirm this. The storm that hit us (I live in TN) Friday night took out power in a few counties that still do not have power back. Going on day 6 and the electric companies are telling them there is nothing they can currently do to get power back on.
My wife saw a news report today that said some areas may go years before the power comes back. Of course they said it like that is perfectly normal without digging any deeper into why it may take years.
I work for a fairly large hardware store this is what we are seeing. R-board wont be able to get any till April or may, sheetrock will be tough to get, propane tanks hahaha almost non-existent, wiring,breaker boxes, conduit have been tough, pipe, schedule 40, drain and sewer and fittings, Chlorine, bromine, insulation, batteries of all types, lumber has been better recently, steel coil and steel roofing having issues, appliances hit and miss, windows and doors are months, Shower units also months, oh and buy your lawn mower or snowblower now! They gone too.
Not doubting the story. However, my power just went out last night due to a tornado in NW Iowa. We had two poles and two transformers down. The utility crews came last night and got power back on before midnight. Then they came again mid afternoon after the tree cleanup and have just installed the new poles and transformers. 24 hrs from incident and everything is back to normal. Just passing along info.
Most utility companies keep spares on hand. The problem is when they use up their reserves. Other people have commented the lead time on a replacement transformer is 12-24 months right now. If they fixed yours in 24 hours it was definitely a spare they already had on hand.
We have storm damage every year yes, but the replacement parts for everything are getting harder to find.
So this is one of the ways shit's gonna hit the fan. Good to know, thanks for sharing!
The whole supply chain is a tinder box waiting for a spark. When things do crash, it will happen rapidly. People are still in denial that anything is happening. I see empty shelves at every store I go to. When the trucks stop rolling and the grocery stores are empty, it will get ugly.
We’re on the eastern edge of west tn. It’s not just that, it’s also water meters and gas lines to hook up natural gas.
So wood power poles also come from China and are stuck on boats in LA harbor? A bit hard to believe. Bullshit excuses.
Not just wood, but pressure-treated wood. Pumping lumber full of poison so it doesn't rot is way cheaper in countries that don't have to deal with OSHA or the EPA.
Bullshit. My summer house in the republik of Washington has a power pole manufacturing plant a few blocks away. They treat them there and ship them every day. We have huge trucks rolling daily.
That third world BS is unacceptable. The current bunch who took power under highly questionable circumstances do not know how to run a country. Even if they got their authoritarian dream, and they won't, they wouldn't know how to run it. They are too self absorbed to understand how life works.
Build back butter.
Build back Better Butter, there, fixed it!! 😁
It has to happen. We WILL build back America stronger than ever!
What happened to using domestic? It's not like china is the only country in the world to have resources...