Hello, everybody. Welcome to the Great America Show. Glad to have you with us all together as we fight for the American way to preserve and protect it and our great constitutional republic.

We've got a lot of work ahead of us. That's alright because we're already seeing signs our efforts are paying off.

Take the New York Times, for example, the New York Times with an article this week, alerting the Marxist-Lap Dems, the entire Democratic Party that is, that there's a Republican effort afoot to actually demonstrate how the 2020 election was rigged and how to fix the electoral system before this November's midterm elections.

And yes, some believe that 2020 votes could still be decertified, even fewer believe if some votes could be decertified that President Trump could be reinstated as the rightful winner of the 2020 election.

That does not seem to be a proximate reality.

Well, most of the article rants about desertification efforts and implausibility that subtext of it all seems to acknowledge the Dems discomfort with Trump supporters and Trump supporter efforts to fix the election that was obviously rigged if not in all cases illegal.

That discomfort seems less driven though by desertification efforts than the fact Republican energy is building at our local and state level all across the country and heightened Republican participation in local politics and elections to assure electoral integrity.

Well, that's upsetting Dems because it would doom any attempted repeat of the 2020 Dems strategy this year that obviously is deeply concerning and upsetting to the left.

That's a good sign folks and I hope you your family and friends and neighbors are all planning to be full participants and volunteers in your local elections this November.

We have to win this one folks and big issues all around us of course and more building the Russian war against Ukraine the threatened Chinese war on Taiwan hyperinflation in America wide open borders with Mexico to name but a few of the issues and all of those issues and more do affect America and all of us.

Our guest today is Jonathan Bass he's the CEO of the leading manufacturer of home decor in North America PTM images it's headquartered in Westwood California involved an international business and dealing daily with the big issues of our time dependency wealth transfers labor supply chain disruptions the environment up close at in person.

Jonathan great to have you back with us on the great America show so let's start with what we're told in what you believe is true we're told supply chain delays and disruptions are easing that the computer chip shortage for example is improving but you don't believe that do you.

Not at all I actually think that we're going to see in the next six months a large disruption supply chain right now with the covid shutdowns raging throughout China and the lockdowns that means that people can't go to factories and work and trucks can't cross from one province to the other without permitting.

So the issues really are you know there's a ton of boats waiting outside the you know coast from north to south in China and all those good that we're supposed to be produced now that should be hitting our markets in six months are going to be delayed now they are saying.

The trade has been surging between China and Russia and it's true the trade is surging between China and Russia because all the goods that were supposed to hit pre Christmas that were paid for and sitting at ports hit in February March and April and so we're our warehouses are stocked with goods but they're all goods that were supposed to be here for Christmas season so it's going to be interesting what six months from now is going to look like they said.

That the LA ports have started to get some relief well there's relief because there's no ships coming into port so they have still 60 to 80 boats outside 150 miles and then they have about 20 on the last count in you know just circling around port.

Wow and we're also talking about very little that's being actually exported to China in the way of value added goods that is finish goods we are seeing huge supplies of basic commodities which is popular for third world country experts but not doesn't make sense for the most developed economy on earth to be in the net.

In the net exporter on the basis of commodities for crying out loud doesn't know and.

This whole issue of commodities and supply chain of raw materials into China, whether it's cotton cotton is you know one of the most destructive plants and farming takes a lot of water takes a lot of environmental impact and it produces an export crop.

That's then used to make thread and go upside up up the stream into a peril and you know homelands and whatever and those goods are sent in raw material to have all the value add in the product added in Asia and then brought back as finished goods that's the easiest thing for us to on shore but our government is not promoting on shoring they're promoting.

Can you continue purchasing from around the world well let's talk about a couple of specific products and in one of them is let's start with apple apple has as far as I know the largest labor base in China of any American corporation it is immensely dependent on products as well as labor in China.

And and apple is an amazing company it is the world's biggest baddest the most cash rich it's got the greatest balance sheet and market share.

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