A story surfacing in Politico about the collapse of the office of the United States Trade Representative (USTR) and the inability of the entire trade policy group to find any willing trade partners was entirely predictable.
You might remember how the insufferable U.S. business media constantly said the Trump trade team was not going to be successful because the administration was disliked by global trade partners. Every Trump trade approach from tariffs to section 301 compliance, to U.S. demands around foreign policy tied to the economic Trump Doctrine was decried by U.S. multinational corporations as too divisive, too intransigent. However, Donald Trump and his trade wolverines racked up more trade wins and established more trade agreements than any administration in history.
From KORUS (Korea/US) to the Middle East, Saudi Arabia, India, Japan, European energy deals, massive changes with China, new Ag agreements, demanded technology sector investment back in the USA, and the successful renegotiation of NAFTA (Canada, Mexico, USA) into the USMCA – all of it was stunning in scale, scope and success. Trump’s global trade success was exactly the opposite of every predictive declaration by the professional media. All of the Trump strategic policy shift created the framework for the largest domestic expansion of the U.S. economy, evident in every 2019 economic metric prior to the pandemic.
Biden took office with the full support of the lying liars who lie in the media, and they said Biden’s team was a shoo-in for success. Again, exactly the opposite has happened.
The ideological leftists who came with the Obama/Biden plan forcibly tried to push their Green New Deal policies into every trade agreement. The result and response from all U.S. trade partners has been a massive failure of epic proportions.
Despite the international pontifications around support for the globalist energy policies, ie. the “Build Back Better” bulls**t pushed by western government, the World Economic Forum and the globalists, when it comes to where the rubber hits the road no nation is willing to attach themselves to the economically destructive millstone demands of U.S trade. In material fact, many of the BBB agenda priorities are now completely rejected by the same politicians who promoted them.
In part, we in the USA are suffering through some of the most horrific inflationary economic outcomes from this Biden ‘Green New Deal’ program. Any nation that aligned itself is feeling the same impact in direct proportion to how close they followed the program. The more ‘Green’ compliant the nation, the more the economic hardship upon the citizens within that nation. This is just the non-pretending reality of the thing.
So, it doesn’t come as any great surprise to see a thoroughly rejected and dejected career trade group now walking to the exits with zero accomplishments for their last three years of effort.
WASHINGTON – Frustration with a stalled trade agenda and unhappiness with the leadership of President Joe Biden’s trade chief is pushing more than a half-dozen senior trade officials out the door, according to four current and former administration officials with knowledge of the departures.
The exits include the White House’s point person on international economics and two of the three deputy U.S. trade representatives responsible for implementing the Biden administration’s “worker-centered” trade policy.
The exodus comes after Biden’s trade agenda ran aground on multiple fronts in 2023: failing to reach a green steel and aluminum deal with the European Union and pulling out of trade talks that were part of the U.S.-crafted Indo-Pacific Economic Framework in November. The administration, meanwhile, remains internally divided on other key trade policy decisions, like how to regulate digital information flowing across the globe.
Those headwinds — and the realization that little real progress is likely to be made in an election year during which former President Donald Trump will put a glaring spotlight on trade — have convinced some officials it’s time to move on. Adding to the frustration: simmering discontent with the management practices of U.S. Trade Representative Katherine Tai.
[…] Biden’s “worker-centered” trade agenda was designed to smooth over frayed relations with close trading partners and win back those blue-collar workers in battleground states. But his sweeping plans to reshape global trade rules haven’t assuaged concerns from Democrats who worry that Trump will again use trade issues as a cudgel against them in the industrial Midwest — a region that could determine control of Congress and the White House in November.
That disconnect has forced USTR to freeze, abandon, or dramatically scale back its signature initiatives and negotiations, leaving some top lawmakers and staffers frustrated. In particular, Wyden and Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio) are fuming that the administration hasn’t matched the Trump administration’s accomplishments on trade, like the binding labor and environmental standards that Democrats got inserted into the rewrite of NAFTA that Trump signed in 2020.
“Sen. Brown and I have consistently said that you need the kind of proposal that you saw in the U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement where you open up markets for business and you have tough enforcement,” said Wyden, “and a lot of what’s been put up doesn’t meet that test.” (read more)
Go figure!….
Want success?…
Want trade deals that lift the USA economy?…
Want USA “deflation,” yes, the actual lowering of prices for goods and services?…
Want lower costs of goods, and lower prices for consumers by leveraging the size of the USA market?…
“…Get Donald Trump back in office!”
Can’t happen soon enough
And get Peter Navarro out of prison and back to work.
Free Pete! 🇺🇲
Here is a headline from Yahoo,
“The US economy ended 2023 with a bang”
Nonfarm payroll growth also suggests a strong jobs market last year despite smaller job growth.
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/us-economy-ended-2023-bang-213605532.html
I don’t believe a word of what they are saying…and I certainly don’t believe their statistics. They having been lying about the jobs numbers for three years.
The ‘growth’ figures reportedly include government spending, i.e. deficit spending.
The “bang” they heard was the detonation charges exploding under the main support columns holding up our economy.
The only thing holding up the numbers is the huge amount of hot air coming out of the Mal-Administration and their sycophants in the media.
They’ve been lying about EVERYTHING for 3 years !!
Truer things cannot be said!
Say no more…
🎵 We need you back!
We need you back! 🎵
🎶We need you back
for good!!! 🇺🇲 🎶
“All their Stupid Policies Can be Reversed And We will Make the Deserts Bloom Again”.
The title says it all, but I feel when faced with so much propaganda from our government it is imortant to remember that they will not win. All their efforts have failed because people know what they want and how they want to live. We will not eat bugs, drive electric cars or digitalize our hard earned money.
“Did the WEF drones really think those people were going to eat bugs and fake meat? Jordan Peterson may have made the all-meat diet breakthrough, but he has shown that the nutrients we most need today, are within meat, within traditional food. The beefcake community, gym rats, performance addicts, the ambitious have all followed suit. Even the Gwyneth people are re-integrating healthy meats, full-fat dairy, preferably raw. Supermarket milk is called dead milk. That means, according to the marketing curve, that within ten years, every middle class person on earth will be eating that way. And what does that mean for the land?”
https://elizabethnickson.substack.com/p/all-their-stupid-ideas-can-be-reversed
Well, those drones were able to corral people into tiny outdoor circles in New York and elsewhere, so next time watch out for the rubber bullets. When that doesn’t work it will be gas, and so on and so forth.
Her writings on SUBSTACK are superb!!! I highly encourage subscribing to hers!
Thank you for sharing this!
I subscribe to her…love her insight!
“But,…what can I do, I am just one person?” said 7 BILLION people.
Worth the subscription, and she demonstrates WHERE good journalists are; NOT gone, just moved away from Legacy to the internet.
The author calls it right…
The trade issue is very scary right now…and incredibly destructive (of course, by design). The “exits” are protection from a supremely failed policy and the blame-game. The “green deal” is an unmitigated disaster for all except those with their hands out for kickbacks (remember Solyndra??)
The “green deal”, and the green is not “Greenbacks”, but dead and decaying ‘Pond Scum”.
realization little real progress is likely to be made during which former President Donald Trump will put a glaring spotlight on trade — So quitting, when the real facts are shown.
Biden’s “worker-centered” – Is that like workers being centered in the crosshairs of a scope?
I agree that this would be good, but I am also a great believer in commercial fertilizers in addition to natural fertilizers. One only has to look at what Sri Lanka did to its agriculture when trying to be all natural, it banned commercial fertilizers.
A great resource for agriculture and fertilizer info is John Kempf. He takes a realistic perspective on the fertilizer issue.
https://www.advancingecoag.com/
Actually that wasn’t the link to the podcast. He talks about the need to transition slowly from one to the other. Pretty complex but interesting.
I’ve run all my farms over the years as close to organic as possible. I never once owned a pesticide. Maybe some amdro and some snail bait from Home Depot. Fungicides on occasion when necessary. But I never skimped on fertilizer. A well-fed plant is almost immune to most pathogens and pests. Science has figured fertilizer out. I don’t argue with success. The idea of thinking you’re going to successfully raise crops without the best fertilizers is akin to thinking your cat will be fine as a vegetarian. The organism just does not operate that way
Our soil is becoming increasingly dead. We are going to have to find a cheap way to put nutrients back into the soil. Or subsidize it some way. Chemical fertilizer is great for adding components to improve output but it definitely is bad over time. Have you noticed how those big beautiful tomato’s are basically tasteless and offer little to no health benefits.
Bio-char and ReMineralization are two huge hopes for rebuilding soil.
Loved that ad many moons ago about: “What’s for Dinner?” Beef!
buddy had a bumper sticker”beef because the west wasn’t won on salad!”
I tried cutting out most of the meat from my diet. It didn’t work for me.
My concern for supermarket beef quality led me to investigate grass-fed, non-GMO, non-mRNA, no-herbicide, no-pesticide, no-antibiotic beef. At first I thought it too expensive (approx. $90 for 10 lbs. of ground beef incl. shipping). Figuring 1/3 lb. per meal made me realize it’s doable for me ($3 a dinner for exceptionally fine meat!).
“Our cattle spend their lives foraging for naturally occurring grasses on free range ranch land, while soaking up the Arizona sunshine and living their best life, the way nature intended.” — Arizona Grass Raised Beef Company, Chino, AZ. No feedlot. They ship nationwide.
It arrives promptly, well-frozen. I cook a patty stovetop in butter. It’s so damn good I don’t want a bun or condiments on it (side-benefit: weight loss).
Eat beef and feel fortified. No bugs for me!
Good. The less accomplished by these idiots, the better.
If the legacy media doesn’t report it, did it happen? That’s the problem. It’s why they want control of information so badly.
“,…they WANT to control information so badly” sure but what they WANT and what they get are two different things.
The #’s tell the tale; in revenue, viewership and opinion poll results, MSM/Bug Tech have LOST the battle with MAGA media, over control of Public Opinion.
So, it really doesn’t MATTER anymore, whether Legacy media reports it, or not.
If Legacy media still had control of the narative (and so Public Opinion) PDJT would have dropped out, and the R primaries would be a battle between Ron and Nikki.
Covid wasn’t that long ago. There are still millions who think Russia helped Trump in 2016. Don’t forget the Ukraine “but democracy” scam that still that is still going strong today. And Israel? There’s still quite a hold on the general public at large in my opinion. The economy is more difficult to gaslight as we all have wallets and need to shop to stay alive. Yet they still gaslight.
The MSM (msdnc) is the outlet that published this trade story.
Q: Why would the fake news, our enemy, start saying anything not praising JoeBama?
A: It’s not because they want to prepare the sheep for the return of President Trump. It’s to prepare them for the DemonRat nominee who will replace JoeBama.
And they’re (MSMPRAVDA) not sure how that struggle is going between The Blightbringer and Bribem.
If the Legacy media still had the hold and control over Public Opinion you seem to think they do, their plan to defeat PDJT with Indictments would have worked already.
LOOK at the polls that even thoygh they are skewed (because MAGA don’t do polling) show PDJT way ahead of both Joe and anybody else.
Exactly. And also why the RNC wanted to anoint PDJT with the Republican nominee, and he said “no thanks.” The RNC/Cabal do not want the primary numbers showing what a landslide it’s going to be in 2024 for President Trump. Iowa and New Hampshire slapped them in the face. What’s Tricky Nikki gonna do?
believe me here in iowa it would have been a worse beatdown if i wasn’t -10 to -20 degrees.i had to miss the caucuses as i was watching my sick grand babies,and i know a half dozen others that didn’t make it either.
It’s a numbers game. The tide has turned. The Public is no longer watching MSM en mass. This is great. There is still a remnant that watch and believe the lies. But, because of the economy, most people understand that Biden’s policies mean smaller wallets for them. Some of these understand how and why these policies are adverse to the economy, most do not. They just register their ability to pay for life’s necessities has been reduced. That is enough for them to turn away from Bidenomics. The Democrats are going to have a tough time getting votes for anything come November.
Congress can no longer keep the peace because representatives are receiving phone calls about the economy and their constituents are pissed. Congressmen’s jobs are on the line and they know it. They can’t make the backroom deals like they used to just by dividing the bounty.
Smaller for sure. Because of Bidenomics, Americans have $11,500+ less in their wallets per year than they did under President Trump.
That is one datapoint I actually believe.
I’d venture that the total number of readers of bloggers on Substack now > the total number of subscribers to MSM publications.
By exponential magnitudes.
You’ve been right about this all along and now the results are in.
MSM and their credibility have been destroyed by MAGA and Trump.
Information warfare: there is a war on for your mind; and we are winning now.
Must keep the pressure up and never relent!
PSYOPS war going our way!
Hearts and minds, best places to aim for fatal wounding of the enemy, lol!
BK, yes the war against the psyops is going our way, but to clarify for any possible troll eyes, it’s not because our side uses psyops to fight.
We simply use the truth to fight psyops. Truth trumps (term intended) psyops every time. ☺️
More epic failure by the Bolshevik Biden Administration!
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
America First / MAGA Economic model!
I do not just despise Democrats and Rinos – – I HATE THEM!
They are unworthy of our hate. These pusilanimus cretins have earned our contempt.
One of my fantasies,…that one or a small group of them,…takes the stage.
Take your pick, Hillary, Michelle, Nikki or Liz, Mitch or Mittens,…it really doesn’t matter so long as the odor of elitists roils off of them like the smell of manure.
As they begin the presentation to the audience (and again it doesn’t matter WHAT its about!) the audience, as one point their fingers at the stage, and start to laugh, uproariously.
As those on stage respond with looks of consternation, followed by haughty indignation the audience laugh much harder, falling out of their chairs, holding their sides, slapping the ground and peeing themselves.
What they have truly earned,…is RIDICULE.
Let’s hope that there is a litle restraint on that “peeing themselves” reaction… it will certainly add to the ‘aura’.
Im going to add NeverNikki to that vivid picture in my mind.
Oh, she’s definetly right there!
Hey, Nikki name 3 provinces,…ha ha ha!
In the near future please relate some more of your fantasies for us Dutchman! But keep it PG!
They haven’t been “taking the stage” because they don’t have a message.
DJT makes continuous appearances because he actually has a message. We know he means it. He implemented his plans fighting an uphill battle for four years. Now he is loudly repeating this message after having the malignant cabal stealing, lying, imprisoning, and continuously beating the crap out of him and his supporters.
They have to sue, slander, and steal because they have zero to say. Joe Biden sure as hell can’t deliver a message. Even with the ultimate plan of running Michelle –what the hell has that antiAmerican ever accomplished? Her husband certainly did nothing for minority communities — or any other community for that matter. He made things worse!
Who has the message to strengthen our country for everybody? Who has a proven record? There is only one.
🇺🇲 President Trump 🇺🇲
And guess who got to ride that W A V E of SUCCESS for the last 7 years?
Every.Governor.Out.There.
And they have the nerve to come out and lie to our faces that President Trump is a Loser and we only lose with him. Pure and total hubris.
Best President EVER!
Those folks need to wipe the fog off their mirror and see who the problem really is!
And Pete Navarro gets 4 months in prison…
all nutz.
It’s unprecedented. This admin effs up EVERYTHING it touches. It’s bad now, but woe is us if they stay in power after 2024.
They can not stay in power, after 2024.
The only question is which box will take them out of power, the stuffed ballot box, or the,….other one.
I’d PREFER its the ballot box, thats…..perhaps ‘easier’ or slightly less messy.
However, when it comes down to it, I really don’t give a shi,….I don’t CARE.
Either way, WE will have to rip that control out of their hands, take and hold it and drive THEM from the halls of power.
Agreed, but when PDJT has the reigns, the entire structure of permanent DC will work to stall his every move (including our friends, the rinos). There are literally THOUSANDS of these obstructionists embedded in the system. Breaking them will be paramount to reversing all the damage the Obiden regime has done.
The President has the authority to furlough many federal employees…With a stroke of his pen!
He should start with DOE, DOJ, EPA, ATF, IRS, and DOS?
O’Biden used his pen to crush America?
Trump will use it in 2025 to Make America Great Again!
From your lips to God’s ears!
Don’t leave out the FBI and CIA as they are the top of the apex on the resistance against Trump.
For my money, they are also the ‘slimeyest’ … if that’s a word.
Slimiest is indeed a word, and a perfect description of these Corruptocrats.
Trump has a plan and an army of volunteers to deal with the vermin. He did not have a MAGA army last time, this time he does. Hopefully enough volunteers that know what they are doing and can work the system to get his objectives accomplished. We shall see.
I hope our Sundance plays a part.
Hopefully PT, through moving these cancers to designated (F) status , he will quickly fire all of them.
Your idea…needs to be implemented before the election…we are gonna have a hard time hanging on through whatever their 2024 devastating schemes will be.
The only way they stay in power is to steal it just like 2020.
By their actions they have already conceeded that stealing it “just like 2020” is NOT possible.
They are now desperately implementing plans that begin by accepting PDJT WILL return to the Oval, and they are trying to lay the groundwork for minimising his power once in office.
Get with the program, its NOT 2020, or 2022; its 2024.
My gut tells me that there will be a “new virus” come September. The Dems will do all they can to force a lock down and mandatory mail in voting.
The Dems will conceed nothing. You have to rip it out of their gnarled fists.
They still have mail in voting in all the swing states. Their state legislators have not forced them to return to their election laws concerning this. I am hoping those state RINO”s have had a belly full but who knows how far gone they are.
There actually are reductions and limitations that HAVE been placed on mail in ballots, since 2020.
For example, Delaware Supreme Court ruled they can NOT do mass, mail out ballots in 2024.
There are ways (and ways!) to stop mail in ballots from being used to steal elections…
They will concentrate on stealing the house and senate to keep control.
Or worse Dutch! We must all pray for our duly-elected president’s safety.
They’ve done it before.
No, they have already seen, first hand the effect of mini-marteryering him with these Indictments.
To truly martyer him would “cry havoc, and let slip the dogs of war” and I truly do not believe they want that.
There will be no US.
At this moment, when it couldn’t be clearer the contrast in administrative styles, and the attendant success (or lack thereof) of each approach, the Trump team has to begin pivoting toward the general election. Like a constant drumbeat, the campaign needs to hammer home the mantra of “no more Obama 3.0”. Obama’s people infest this administration and Barack himself is the designated puppet master to control the Placeholder-in-Chief. Joe’s disasters need to be tied to the Obama team.
It would be a good idea to hamstring a Michelle “pinch hitting” announcement before it even left the gate.
A basketball metaphor might be more appropriate: Mike may come off the bench as the 6th Man.
Wow!!!
Who’d of thunk it that forcing retail politics into wholesale business wouldn’t work out so well… But then again, it has served it’s purpose for the forcers… not so much for the forcees tho.
Trust God. Fear not.
America still has the largest market, despite the efforts to destroy America by the Council On Foreign Relations, currently lead by their Democrat Uniparty wing. The Free Trade treason was meant to greatly facilitate the destruction along with a slew of other ways such as “Globull Warming” laws, high taxes etc etc
Hi Colkitto, thought you’d be pleased to know that knowledge of the nefarious agenda of the CFR is starting to reach the public.
Last week the local evening-commute radio host in my area pointed out the CFR by name as being responsible for orchestrating many of the ills afflicting our country. He is not MAGA, so his comment surprised me and gave me hope the public is more and more aware of the puppet masters.
What a pleasant surprise to hear that and for your kindness in telling me.
My deepest appreciation friend and I hope your cat family member is doing better.
I can tell which character rules that seat!
Thanks Colkitto,
My little fur ball is breathing better thanks to medication and that is a really good development. To protect her anonymity I’ll call her Missy as her first vet, who we loved, called her Miss ____.
Missy is back to important window patrol duties. And can enjoy gentle, mini play times. Still figuring out what is the correct diagnosis, dire or chronic. But the bits of improvement has me hopeful.
All her fav foods in rotation all day every day –she approves.
Love the photo! Enjoy your Sunday!
America punches WAY outside its weight class, when it comes to the size of its markets fir goods and services, compared to its population; no other country is close.
That is directly due to a large, vibrant middle class and despite years of focused efforts to destroy it, it is battered but still exists.
And that is one of the pillars of exeptionalism, along with the Constitution, the rule of law and the resources which make the U.S. capable of being self-sufficient.
Properly capitalised on through Nationalist economic/trade policies (America First) we have inherent advantages that guarantee us winning any ‘trade war’ before the first shot is fired.
Using reciprocal tariffs to truly eliminate trade barriers WHILE leveling the playing field would, over time eliminate major corruption and graft, as each country enters the competition for markets by acting in its, and its peoples best interests (Make Mexico, Canada, India etc. Great Again) which would mean that countries weighed down by graft and corruption would be less competitive, and so losers in the battle for global trade.
Hence, the U.S. would be using trade to export freedom and prosperity, AS the most efficient and competitive system “wins”.
That “corruption and graft” thingy is one big ‘elephant’… and a sad reflection on humans.
Remember what Our Lord said.
LOVE of money (NOT money itself used properly) is the root of ALL evil. (Making money an idol, above God even!)
We’re seeing and experiencing that a lot lately!
Lying liars that lie… will just rewrite history to delete, minimize or whitewash their lies.
Like they did & are still doing with the scamdemic.
It should be obvious to anyone paying attention by now:
These people are following orders. It is not incompetence. It is intentional. It is by design.
The people who are issuing the orders are orchestrating and directing the controlled destruction of America, Western ethnic races, and Christianity itself.
They really don’t care at this point if people notice, and are doing it openly at this point. Because they can’t hide it anymore, and the effort to conceal it would take too much time.
They are running out of time as the masses wake up, and their entire existence is controlled by fear.
I disagree that they don’t care, very much agree that they can’t hide it any more, and they are running out of time.
This WAS inevitable, as after the long (largely unnoticed) march thru the Institutions, at SOME point they were going to HAVE to transition from subtlety to obvious tyranny, and I don’t see anything to indicate they had given a lot of thought as to how to navigate the transition.
The boiling frogs analogy IS accurate, but misrepresented.
No matter how gradually you raise the heat, eventually (and long before the water is hot enough to kill the frogs) they WILL jump out of the pot.
Therefore, a LID and considerable FORCE are required, to keep the frogs from jumping out.
If ONE frog jumps out of the pot, INTIMIDATION can work, but when ALL of the frogs jump out, the recipe falls apart.
I agree. I would just add one thing. A lot of frogs would be jumping out sooner if they weren’t attached to government jobs. Anyone whose check always comes will be slow to waking up to all this bullshit that’s been going on. Drives me nuts as a lot of those people vote to ensure their check always comes. Well, if this keeps up, their checks will no longer be coming. Funny that. Ah. What do I know? I’m just a self employed painting contractor from Long Island.
Dan I agree…..These corporations that are in on it…..are destroying their customers (middle class) Makes no sense does it. Those elites will not have the serfs to supply what their lavish lifestyles demand. They do not realize they are destroying themselves along with us.
They think AI and other peons will be delighted to do the jobs!
And, basically, Who (or should I say What) is behind all this?
This, ultimately, is a battle between Good and Evil. This most recent battle, in a corporate sense, was initiated about 500 years ago.
I think there are four tiers of people. Those who did not know but did stuff to keep their job. Those who did not know but did stuff for a bribe. Those who knew but were bribed to do stuff. Those who knew and were orchestrating things behind the scenes. The first bunch are going to be blamed and may or may not see that happening. If they see people coming for them, they are trying to get out of the way. The second bunch that were bribed never considered the consequences and now they are experiencing them, they are also trying to get out of the way. Most in these two groups do not have enough power to avoid all the consequences.
Those who knew, were bribed and expected consequences, expected their power and money to be sufficient to protect them from the consequences. For now, they are sitting pretty. They are still trying to avoid consequences. I expect most of this group to suffer consequences at a much later date, especially unanticipated ones. Things fail in unpredictable ways sometimes and these are the issues that they will deal with.
The orchestrators knew the consequences would occur eventually. But they implemented their tyranny anyway. They will try until they are removed or dead. These are the true believers in the satanic objectives.
Looking at the USA from afar, can you blame them? Who wants to deal with losers?
Trump wins everyone wins, we know it, they know it.
And all Treepers remember the lines Mr. Trump gave us in his very first campaigns….along the lines of we would get so tired of winning that we would beg him to stop all the winning….! I never got to that point…I for one, want that to happen! So much winning…more winning!
Those were the days my friends, we thought they’d never end….
Pat is talking about the Council On Foreign Relations Republican Uniparty wing
Biden Is Rewriting the Rules on Trade—and Americans Should Be WorriedThe administration is doing a sneaky end run around the Inflation Reduction Act.
https://foreignpolicy.com/2023/04/28/ira-trade-ustr-tai-biden-congress-fta/
That is one GREAT cartoon! Thanks. Perhaps it will gain a lot of traction.
Pat & Ross had it exactly right, remember how the enemy MSM coalesced and sold the lie that NAFTA would be great for America. HORSE SH_IT!
I owned a nice manufacturing facility from around 1987 to 2001, 9-11 was the death knell. I watched each year decline from 1994 when NAFTA Newt betrayed the USA to 2001. They knew it would but they did it anyway the CFR/WEF commanded it.
What if?
I am sorry friend StanH. Love the NAFTA Newt reference. I have a extra enmity for him since he could have stopped much of the Sordid Clinton treason years, instead he facilitated as minority leader & Speaker
But there’s also another problem: “the American Dollar.” Which the USA has both manipulated, used as a weapon, and manufactured by the TRILlions. If you trade with the USA, you subject yourself to all of this. But, your own eyes and ears and functioning brain tell you that this isn’t safe anymore.
But also: many US (sic …) trade goods are not sourced in the country. They are “re-exports.” If you instead contract with the actual source – usually China – you can get the same stuff (or better) and pay for it in Yuan. A much more satisfactory, and safer, proposition.
I am pretty sure China’s currency and debt situation is more dire than ours. The countries joing BRICS are going to be fleeced by China.
That’s taking two fairly gigantic assumptions. First, that no other nation on earth can do better than “we” do. And, that no OTHER nation has the capacity to understand…
“Hubris” is no longer our ally …
I am not saying that at all Mike. All of China’s economic numbers and other numbers have been and are being faked for years. Manufacturing is walking away from them, no running away. It is about 20% of their economy. Over building in both commercial real estate and residential real estate which is 20% of their economy is in worse shape than us in 2008. The malinvestment in high speed trains, huge bridges, and airports that make no economic sense is epic. Their population is much smaller than they have been telling everyone and much older. The country is polluted beyond understaning. The yuan is not worth the paper it is printed on.
However the Biden/Obama group is trying to out destroy the Chi Coms. It is a serious race to the bottom. If Trump wins, we stand a slim chance of saving our country, but as I said below Trump has to remove the Communists from our government.
“The American Dollar” is totally responsible for this mess. The powers knew when Bretton Woods 2 was signed that it had a lifespan that was not forever. This determined the when of most of the tyranny and all of covid. Because the derivatives were papered over in 2008 indicating the banking system had already crossed the rubicon, repeated failures have occurred since that were all papered over. The covid initiation was in Oct 2019, when the banks hiccupped yet again and Powel did not have tools to control it. The last one was Silicon Valley Bank, which was papered over, but has not stemmed the flow of banking failures or bank runs. All of this has been on-going quietly behind the scenes. At some point, they all fall down. I have heard in the next 3 weeks, April and end of 2024.
No the American dollar is not responsible. It is the people who are authorizing the SPENDING. The people that spend more than we take in with taxation are the culprits. They blame bankers. It is our politicians that are destroying the country.
This isn’t “green” it’s blatant totalitarianism. Elinor Ostrom won the Nobel Prize for her book, “Governing the Commons,” which advocated nationalism because, like, it works. Haven’t seen much reference to her work by these power-hungry globalists.
It is ‘green’, as in ‘barf’. 🤢
Also destroyer of lifeblood of economy (energy – oil, coal, nuclear).
The Bureaucrats of this Administration came from the faculty room lounges of academia for the most part and have no real world or “reality” experience….
It would seem their business theories did not work. At least for Main Street.
Hey, they can’t even distinguish between a boy and a girl!
They are all variations on the arrogant and ignorant professor of economics character in Rodney Dangerfield’s comedy Back to School.
This story needs to be Trumpeted loudly and often for the next 9 months (along with stupendous success of the Abrham Accords).
The Green New Deal is perfectly contrary to the reality of modernity: cheap and plentiful energy. The big question is why and the likely conclusion is evil intent. Here’s a good discussion on the topic treepers will appreciate if not seen already:
All I hear from the media is that Trump will end democracy as we know it.
I will take the end of democracy in their eyes and lies
I am hoping Trump will end Democracy for the people that have tried to install Communism in our country.
Whenever you hear the term “democracy” from the legacy media, what they mean is “our power”. It makes their statement much clearer, and it is a straight up text substitution. For example, using a stream editor with Linux:
% sed ‘s/our democracy/our power/g’ < legacy_media > actual_meaning
BINGO!!! Winner, winner chicken dinner!!!
“Everything “woke” goes to sh_t”
When you have crooks and traitors in government or any organization, those traitors and crooks have to be punished for their crimes. Not in Democrat run courts, but in military tribunals. Their kind must never be allowed to rise again. From top to bottom, the people involved in, aiding in, and funding treason need to be in Gitmo. Trump is suffering a RICCO type persecution and the funders of it need to have their assets seized. If Trump does this, the country will have a few decades of prosperity.
The other thing Trump needs to do is close many of the Departments of Government. Get the money out of Washington DC. Drain the Swamp of Money. The lower level thieves will leave on their own accord.
Its RICO, just ONE “C”.
I guess the second one is for all the Corruption and graft!
Maybe Racketeer Influenced Corrupt Communist Organization?
Let me rewrite that headline for you. “Democrats discover the One place where faceless bureaucrats are unable to make lives worse for Americans. All flee in shock and horror!”
Is Trump likely to assemble the same team – Ross, Mnuchin, Navarro & Kudlow ? 🫰🏼
Doesn’t matter, they WERE a great team with knowledge and skills, but it was PRESIDENT TRUMP that was calling the plays, which they executed.
You forgot Lighthizer.
Peter Navarro was an integral part of the Trump admin’s trade policy. Peter has remained unflinchingly loyal to PDJT and is now facing jail time and a fine for not responding to a subpoena.
He will appeal and likely win.
Like Bannon
And if not, then President Trump has the responsibility to pardon both.
If you were wondering why Joe malarkey was installed.
China is your answer
Yup!
I agree regitiger. Joe is carrying out Obama’s policies. But Obama is lazy and not very smart. He is an accomplished hater.
Sundance kind of pins the blame on the Global/Corporatists but in any country at any time the Government class can Arrest them and seize their wealth. It has been happening in China and Hong Kong. Xi has been arresting the corporate titans for a few years.
Things that are happening in our country now, have to be coming from one person. We are experiencing a dictator type operation?
When economist talk about deflation what they mean is asset price reduction. Usually big money like estates, art, land, commercial buildings prices not grocery prices. I don’t think we are going to see positive effects for the common man.
As a side not, food prices deflation was the policy directive that Nixon gave Agriculture Secretary Earl Butz. Food prices had risen to take up 25% of the average families after tax income. Butz created the factory farm system and food prices got cheaper. But nothing comes for free, the obesity/diabetes epidemic and a good hunk of cancers come from our factory food system.
Be careful what you wish for.
Trump was the most “common sense “President in my lifetime n that’s what’s missing . Face it the asylum idiots have been let into the White House and that’s what happens when elections are stolen! 😏
Seems to be the same effect as the infamous Smoot-Hawkey act 1930’s……trade shut down, Great Dep started.
…but usa only?
End the Federal Reserve and no president will have any power over our economy.
The Federal Reserve and Treasury ensure a smooth and safe NonGovernment Banking System and help an economy grow.
The problem is spending more money by the government than it takes in through taxation. When more money is spent than comes in the politicians have the Fed print money. The politicians use the Fed as the “creature from Jekyll Island”. When the creature resides on Capitol Hill
“…Trump will again use trade issues as a cudgel against them in the industrial Midwest”
You better believe he will!!
https://missouriindependent.com/2024/01/25/one-of-nations-only-aluminum-smelters-set-to-close-in-missouri-bootheel/
The left couldn’t run a lemonade stand.
Except into the ground!
And they have sentenced President Trump’s key trade advisor, Peter Navarro, to JAIL for 4 months from the BS Jan 6 Kangaroo Committee
President Trump is not the nicest guy if you cross him. Good. His flat out tell it like it is message is working. The legacy media can not block it. In the end, they will be they few that don’t get it.
Proof positive that Biden’s “experience” is in reality a liability in that trade partners know he is an unprincipled crook and there is no upside to working with him
EVERYBODY but themselves know how udderly stoopid these wacko leftists are.
Not a misspelling. I meant “udder”ly.
https://thedocuments.info/ Trump’s 11 emergency orders, et.al. Is DJT CIC? Did DJT federalize U.S. National Guard? Derek Johnson shares on rumble and has created a printed publication of same publicly available docs. Is Space Force a force for spaces other than outer space? Subterrain?
Put it back! It ain’t better!
Would you eat lunch at a restaurant where all the workers and owners were suicidal?
What a disaster and so predictable. Biden has been a failure every step of his career and he has no ability, since he was a bought and paid for tool, to do anything the most efficient and USA positive way. Trade was booming in so many good ways under the Trump team and now it’s just stalled because of people who know little about how to go about making good deals. Bring back PTrump indeed.
At this point, I think even most of our left-wing neighbors would be okay with Trump having another round. At least, most of the ones I’ve talked to in real life are okay with it, even looking forward to it. The internet doesn’t really convey that very clearly.
The UK Conservatine government spokeswoman for trade…Kemi Badenoch…said 2 weeks ago that it is the Biden regime which has prevented a post Brexit trade deal…just like Pelosi promised to block it.
“Fake and Gay” doesn’t cut it in the real world.
Ship of fools. Who would have thought that when you put people on board with very minimal experience (you know that will be the case in these kinds of things) that you get poor results.
This sentence right here is the kicker, and Dems know that it’s true:
Well whaddya know? The truth comes out. It’s so bad that even the Sleepy One’s allies even see the problem.
The Bolsheviks are in charge.
What could possibly go wrong?!
This total farce of an administration, excels in two areas, corruption and failure.
Don’t expect any magic bullets. I heard President Trump say the other day that prices aren’t going to go back down. This is a tougher nut to crack this time. They have larded up so many businesses and everything government touches with imaginary high-paying jobs. What are we going to do with those people? Unless we bring industry back from Asia, our economy is going to be in a perpetual state of rot no matter who is president. Go ahead and fire all the government workers. Instant depression. Go ahead and wind down the war machine. Instant depression Unless we stop the Invader resettlement industry from being the dominant economic driver of our economy, we’re pretty screwed. Trump is an economic genius. He proved that in his first term. The people around him on the economic front delivered for our country. But 2016 is a whole lot different than 2024. And he’s only got one term. I hope he comes out of the box firing, he has had quite a while to think about this. He’s always had a good game face, but he looks more serious now than he ever has. I hope he’s learned a lesson from his experience last week in the New York courtroom. Dude, you better start getting serious about what lawyers you hire. Everybody thinks 2024 is going to be a wild year. Just think about 20-25, when the war really begins.
Just found this. Pretty much the same analysis. https://www.zerohedge.com/political/great-growth-hoax
“Everything woke turns to shit!” – POTUS 45/47