Other than Trump winning the election, this is the best news all year. Mexico is threatening to retaliate against Trump’s border security tariffs, with some form of economic punishment. Pinch me, this is too awesome.
Keep in mind that around 35% of Mexico’s GDP is contingent upon exports to the USA, meanwhile only around 1% of our stuff exports to them. Then add in the remittances of dollars to Mexico, and more than 50% of the Mexican economy is contingent upon us just being friendly to their needs.
Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum has no clue or comprehension about the scale of Trump’s leverage over her. This is like a spoiled teenager threatening to cut up the credit card dad gave her if she can’t go to the concert. Beyond funny.
WASHINGTON DC – Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum said her government would retaliate if President-elect Donald Trump moves forward with his threat to impose a 25 percent tariff on the country, warning of severe economic consequences for companies operating in both countries.
Sheinbaum unveiled the letter during her daily press conference in Mexico City, which responded to Trump’s plan to slap 25 percent tariffs on all goods from Mexico and Canada in an effort to crack down on the flow of migrants and illegal drugs into the United States. Trump also pledged an additional 10 percent tariff on China.
“For every tariff, there will be a response in kind,” Sheinbaum wrote in a letter sent to Trump. The text was released by the Mexican Embassy Tuesday morning, which said the economic fallout of a trade war would harm shared enterprises, particularly automotive companies that operate in both countries.
“Among Mexico’s main exporters to the United States are General Motors, Stellantis, and Ford Motor Company, which arrived in Mexico 80 years ago. Why impose a tariff that would jeopardize them? Such a measure would be unacceptable and would lead to inflation and job losses in both the United States and Mexico,” she added, according to a translated version of the letter provided by the Mexican Embassy.
The Mexican automotive industry is particularly exposed to a heightened trade conflict with Washington. Trump has repeatedly complained about auto imports from Mexico, accusing the country of being a back door for China, and floated 200 percent tariffs or higher on vehicles from south of the border.
Sheinbaum said she hopes her team can meet with members of the Trump administration to “continue building joint solutions.” (read more)
This is just too cool. If we are lucky, I mean really lucky, Mexico will block all trade and economic relations with the USA. That would be awesome for us.
Can you imagine how the multinational corporations are looking at this? They have funneled hundreds of billions in investments into Mexico, solely for the purpose of having access to the USA market. Sheinbaum can make all those investments disappear overnight and simultaneously collapse her government.
If Mexico blocked trade with the USA, Florida farmers would be instant bazillionaires and the value of Florida farmland would quadruple overnight. There is absolutely NO DOWNSIDE to a permanent, fixed infrastructure border wall and enforcement that blocks all migrants from entry and bottlenecks them inside Mexico.
Mexico exists because we let them exist. Mexico is wealthy because we give them dollars.
Cessation of all economic relations with Mexico would be extremely awesome for us. The only geopolitical downside would be the possibility of Russian or Chinese military bases in Mexico in a few years because Mexico would become impoverished and dirt cheap within weeks. Sheinbaum has no concept of the leverage in this dynamic.
I shall put down my winnamins, and pray she follows through with her threats. The Mexican peso has already dropped 30% this year. lol
OMG, can you imagine what the conversations are amid German automakers right now.
I’ll shut up.
This is too much fun, and he’s not even in office yet.
Claudia Sheinbaum is willing to kill Mexico to rule over the ashes.
Very similar to the Democrat plan for us.
Which sounds like the McTurtle plan as well.
Sheinbaum is a committed Marxist, so no surprise there…
And why not? Doesn’t that seem to be the left’s game plan these days?
A Marxist Sheinbaum? Mexico, wake up.
She is certainly puffing herself up, much like a turkey. 🦃
It sounds like she doesn’t know much about how economics work.
I propose we also put a stop to those remittances back home from the illegals. I know, it goes against everything our Constitution guarantees. However, it just sickens me that illegals get mucho subsidies from our government, like housing, food stamps, healthcare, education, etc.etc.etc.. so they can send their incomes out of our economy.
“geopolitical downside would be the possibility of Russian or Chinese military bases in Mexico in a few years because Mexico would become impoverished and dirt cheap within weeks.”
I’m sure Chy-na will offer up their Belt and Road initiative that makes slaves of every country they enter. Perhaps she can consult some African leaders to see how that’s working out.
The only economics Sheinbaum understands are the wire transfers from Brussels to her offshore accounts.
Canada and Mexico already walking his walk and Israel and Hezbollah are right behind.
I cannot say we are winning too much. This will be a glorious 4 years and it has not even started yet.
If only we can get such agreement from our own deep state.
Nah… It will be more fun to watch them lawyer up! These Communists need to learn that the Boss is not fooling around this time. They went after him, his family and all of his friends and supporters. This is personal for all of us but especially President Trump. God bless our country. Praise to God!
Let’s see how much of a deep state is left within President Trump, his nominees and cabinet after his first year in office. Does anyone want to buy dried up swampland in DC?
Tax the re-admittance transfer at 50% for the border wall funding.
Cut off ALL wired remittances of American dollars into Mexico. $60 billion per year. It’s the second largest income source in Mexico. The President has the authority to do it with one executive order. American dollars earned in the U.S. should be kept in the U.S. to bolster our economy via the multiplier effect of dollars spent here. Illegals earn money here and send a huge chunk of it to Mexico. STOP IT NOW !!
IMHO, no one who is in the US illegally, AND no one who receives any type of US government assistance should be able to send ONE dime out of the US back to their “home country”! They should have to provide a Driver’s License and anyone who receives welfare, SNAP, SSI, etc should have a notation on their license denoting it…and if they don’t have a DL or ID, then they can’t send anything either!
One problem, CA et al give drivers licenses to illegals.
That can and should be stopped.
Agree – surely Trump knows this and will cut it off ASAP.
They’ve been reaming US taxpayers with this and I want my pound of flesh. Of course it needs to be shut down, but I want some payback first.
Mexico might want to consider requiring their presidents to take an IQ test. This gal would flunk bigly!
Mexican version of Kameltoe in the US.
And so would Justin Trudeau and Doug Ford.
So would our current Prez and Veep.
Some people only learn the hard way.
Honda considers tariffs as part of their Civic duty 🙂
Accord-ing to who?
Hoyle…
It’s in Accord with the rest of their plans.
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Excellent wordsmithing Wordman!
as a Prologue to crossing the Ridgeline in an Odyssey to get a Passport,
border patrol should Pilot all illegals right back to mexico.
(back atcha, Wordman !😁😂)
Sheesh …. they’re all punning now and will never go home.
😂🤣
The Passat is present to Prologue.
Ok I’ll stop.
You beat me to it and got more gas mileage to boot.
maybe, but your passat/prologue comment was brilliant!👍🏻
‘Puntification’ at its finest!
Someone should start a Pilot program to help immigrants get legal Passports instead of making to cross over the rugged Ridgelines.
Yes, that would be quite an Odyssey.
I CRV what you did there
Some motherlovers are always trying to ice skate uphill.
Wow…she does have a lot of leverage…subsequently… prices in Boys Town will go up 25%…
Wait until our special operations people quietly swoop down into Mexico and kill the murderous cartels. Cut the heads off the cartel snakes !
They’re more of a hydra, so all necks would also need to be burned off at the same time, but I approve the concept!
That would lead them straight to the Mexican Officials.
More winnamins!
So, threaten to tax or even ban personal money transfers from the US to Mexico.
Actually, that has no inflationary effect on Americans like tariffs do. Also, recall that in business balance sheets additional costs can be compensated for by, for instance, reducing quality. That potential result of tariffs also negatively affects Americans.
Money sent home by Mexicans working abroad rose by 7.6% in 2023, to reach a record $63 billion
https://apnews.com/article/mexico-remittances-record-money-migrants-275a49302e840fdaa8060d5cab9c7a24
A 10% tax would raise $6.3 billion per year to be used exclusively for border security.
Pfffft… Kamala could bowl through that in 8 weeks!!
I’m very sorry, but you’ve made a mistake. Not eight weeks, eight days! There I fixed it for you.
ISWYDT!
What a novel idea “Have Mexico pay for the wall”
Don’t we get taxed at a higher rate than that? It’s likely they are getting paid under the table, have them pay 30% tax.
They live on our welfare payments, work under the table and send it home to their country.
Exactly. And they’ve been doing it for decades, all with the blessings of our Government.
And levy fees on the tourism trade. Call it a Migrant Repatriation Fee. Use it to pay for more CBP agents. 15% fee on flights to Mexico originate in the US, something fun like that.
We the people have a lot of fantastic ideas that should be considered. Musk and Ramaswamy should solicit ideas from the people.
So tariffs have inflationary effect?
I think PDJT would disagree with you on that.
They did no such thing in his previous term either.
It’s another troll who chooses not to see that the Trump tariffs caused zero inflation.
Yes, tariffs do have inflationary effect but where the inflation shows up depends on which is the stronger economy. Despite the tariffs imposed in 2019 ChYna kept its market share by devaluing its currency, which brought the inflation to ChYna and “nonflation” to the USA. We could do it then because USA had a stronger economy, there was no way for ChYna to dump so much of their stuff everywhere else, so they swallowed their pride and ate their loss up. As long as the US market is so much larger compared to anybody else’s we can do this but things can change. Our current administration also thought they could jerk Russia around and totally failed in that endeavor. Of course, PDJ Trump is many orders of magnitude more intelligent than what we have now, but a a minimum Biden’s economists and financial experts have managed to make both ChYna and Russia stronger than ever before.
Trump plays fair with his negotiations – so they understand and can benefit ultimately if they play fair.
If we cut off ALL of the illegal’s subsidies they wouldn’t be left with anything to send “back home”. Let them live like most Americans do, paycheck to paycheck and barely making ends meet.
“and he’s not even in office yet”. Lmao. YES! Pass those winnamins around. Can’t get enough 🙂
Take your winnamin see.
“Mexico exists because we let them exist.” Too funny…
Too true.
Speaking of remittances – Published on Tuesday, January 2, 2024
Mexico | Remittances would grow more than double that of the Mexican economy in 2024
would be a shame if the beach property around punta mita/san pancho area went on a fire sale with a collapsed peso
muy interesante
BlackRock will pay minino pesos per acre when that happens.
“…..the economic fallout of a trade war would harm shared enterprises, particularly automotive companies that operate in both countries.”
I don’t give a damn about the economic fallout for the companies that have sent American jobs across the border.
We used to make everything we needed right here, we need to get back to that, and from the size of the lines that I see at Walmart where people are sending money back home to their own country, we could make some changes there also.
Agree – many, many changes need to be made.
Our unions, labor regs and minimum wages sent those jobs out of the US.
Along with the massive greed of those corporations.
“The only geopolitical downside would be the possibility of Russian or Chinese military bases in Mexico in a few years”
America needs 47 to make it clear that the Monroe Doctrine is back in place and there will be NO non-Western Hemisphere military presence in the Western Hemisphere. Period. Full stop.
If Putin is going to be defended and indulged by American conservatives in his DEMAND that there be no NATO near Russia, then WE can demand that there be no Russian or Chinese military presence anywhere in the Western Hemisphere. The entire Western Hemisphere is the exlusive US sphere of influence. Believe me, NO ONE will challenge 47 on that.
As for Ms Sheinbaum, she is clearly listening to the wrong people. Unless, she thinks she has an invisible cartel army scattered across the US that can be activated. She is a hard left globalist. There may be something going on that we are not aware of.
It’s the Chinese we have to look out for. The Russians are ordinarily benign.
Yes, and what about all those military bases on the West and probably East coast that were sold to the Chinese?
Nato’s open society democracy is fighting a war on two borders.
Sen. Tommy Tuberville On The RINOs Still In Congress, Darien Gap, Monroe Doctrine
https://generaldispatch.whatfinger.com/sen-tommy-tuberville-on-the-rinos-still-in-congress/
Not surprising ….
She studied physics at National Autonomous University of Mexico(UNAM).
A portion of Ciudad Universitaria (University City), UNAM’s main campus in Mexico City, is a UNESCO World Heritage site…
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claudia_Sheinbaum
hee hee .. I love it!
I keep having this mental image of Pres Trump squirting them in the face with a garden hose every time they speak.
They try to say something, squirt, a gurgle of exasperation, then they try to speak again, longer squirt.
There’s a model here for dealing with sanctuary cities. Whether through open declaration or inaction, any so called sanctuary city gets levied additional fees by the Feds to pay for enforcement.
There has to be a way to do that.
Trump: Great! Whatever tariff you impose, I’ll add it to my 25%.
I have a suspicion that Sheinbaum has some “friends” in our congress.
Hell, when I think about it, they may even be the ones who installed her.
Incoming senator Ruben Gallego for one.
Something to consider for sure. Doesn’t make a lot of sense in a country with almost 80% Roman Catholic. 🤷🏻♀️
The Pope is a communist.
“Mexico will pay for the wall”
Stupid question: How did this idiot become el presidente?
Worked her way up the food chain. She was in President Obrador’s cabinet (position similar to Secretary of the Interior) and Head of Government of Mexico City.
Tube steak chain.
Probably the same way Kamala did…
They hadn’t yet gotten around to assassinating her before the election.
Perfect. Wish I owned a farm in Florida
Hilarious meme – https://x.com/PapiTrumpo/status/1861466151659651275
🤣😂😅
Tariff me harder, Papi!!
😂 😂
All night long. 😂
As soon as I can relocate it I’ll post a wire tap audio of the conversation between Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum and Rogelio Ramirez de la O, Secretary of Finance of Mexico. In the interim I have a transcript of the conversation.
Rogelio: WTF is wrong with you????
Claudia: You can’t talk to me like that!!!
Rogelio: You’re insane. Do you have any idea, scratch that, you don’t have any idea the damage a President Trump can inflict on us! He can shut off all trade between the US and Mexico. It would destroy this country!!!!!
Claudia: ROGELIO!!! Don’t you dare try to confuse me with the facts. MY MIND IS MADE UP!!!
Suicidal.
Are you sure she doesn’t work in the Biden State Department?
Checking….
Nope. Still not tired of winning.
Our Lion…Mucho Caliente…
Ohmygosh that is funny!
Shine baughm is going to feel the heat even more soon.
I expect to see corporations crossing the border back to the USA undelsy, undelay, undelay.
😉
Man, this woman is fool. Retaliation? With what? You talk tough when you have leverage. This country allowed the Reds to come in through the back door, and she has the gall to come after us? Please.
What would she threaten if PDJT dumped millions of illegal invaders on her front lawn? 😁More winning please!!!
Retaliate by finally allowing hordes of monsters to cross their land to invade ours.
Wait . . .
She’s planning to withhold Avacados from Mexico. See how you Americans like your TexMex without guacamole!
Don’t we also grow them in CA?
I thought CA was Mexico?
Not nearly as much as we did.
I don’t like the Mexican avocados – they are not buttery- only California’s avocado’s are buttery and rich.
When I was a little kid in Long Beach avocados grew everywhere. Then starting about 50 years ago we let developers cut them all down so they could build ugly multi story apartments everywhere. Same in Temecula. We need to preserve what agriculture we have left.
Hilarious – btw what is a Mexican president doing with a name like “Sheinbaum?” Did she migrate from Germany?
Her Jewish grandparents emigrated to Mexico from Lithuania (paternal) in the 1920’s and Bulgaria (maternal) in 1940. Both her parents were born in Mexico.
A jewish president of Mexico is really weird. Such an outlier.
i CALL ” BINGO ”
SPANISH ( as in SPAIN ), FRENCH, GERMAN – DID NOT Expect Lithuanian / Bulgarian
Like Peru with a DUAL CITIZENSHIP Peruvian / Japanese President – Alberto Kenya Fujimori Inomoto
Long plans…..
Fujimora in Peru.
“If Mexico blocked trade with the USA, Florida farmers would be instant bazillionaires and the value of Florida farmland would quadruple overnight.”
That’s probably correct. The majority of the citrus fields in my county have either been turned into sugar cane fields, or even better, they install tunnel greenhouses and are growing landscape plants. That’s right…landscape plants. US Sugar decided that bringing in citrus from Brazil is a super spiffy idea.
Years ago, Imperial Sugar switched to imported sugar beets, sold off all their sugar cane farmland in Sugar Land, TX, & moved out of state It’s all become master planned communities.
Ugh!
Sadly, they long ago did the same thing to California.
The only power she has is with the migrant invasion. She can only do nothing, since the cartels run the human trafficking slave trade.
Thank you, Sundance. You are #1 in my book. I’m still chuckling over your post.
Wait until Trump ups the tariffs to 50%. and continues to send the illegals back to Mexico. This lady has no clue.
You would think SOMEONE in that government would.
You would also think, or hope at least that someone in bidung’s would too.
Confident that she and her advisors have read Art of the Deal, I’m more inclined to see this as a responsive counter-offer, indicating she’s ready to negotiate, rather than “I’m ready to commit Mexi-cide.”
I think the next issue to watch for will be how much of her negotiations are on behalf of Mexico, and how much will be on behalf of China-Mexico… as both stand to be equally screwed by a tariff wielding American president. We will see how much influence China has already established over Mexico.
The collectors of Chinese bank loans have a yen for land holdings.
You can’t use leverage to deal if you don’t have leverage in the first place.
The negotiations would be more along the line of “What can the US do to get us out from under the control of drug lords and China?”
Her situation might be similar to how Kim Jong Un’s was with China, when Trump reached out to him with capitalist options. China is holding trillions of dollars worth of agreed investments into auto manufacturing (and likely control of their Pacific ports) over the Mexican gov’t.
The USA probably doesn’t have the military muscle (and personnel readiness) to enforce the Monroe Doctrine with sword rattling right now. So peeling away countries in our hemisphere from Chinese hegemony is probably going to be an economic carrot & stick effort.
They need to be totally thrown out of the U.S. lock-stock-and-barrel! Payment for the lives lost by the U.S., and around the world!
Trump is getting ready to teach this lady a lesson.
The concerners will start saying “Trump” made a mistake in 3,2,1….
President Trump should reply: “Se acerca el invierno”
” Don’t threaten me with a good time”
DEI strikes again!
I guess I’ve been out of it so had to read up on her. Not a very common Mexican name or background. But a globalist puppet by any other name. ……………..
Let’s hope she follows through.
“God has granted to us, His Chosen People, the gift of
dispersion, and from this, which appears to all eyes to be our
weakness, has come forth all our strength, which has now
brought us to the threshold of sovereignty over all the world.”
Protocol XI.
As a Marxist, she has no concept of how economics or business work. Mexico is essentially a failed narco-state now anyway. Let’s see how this works out. Got to get some more popcorn
I encourage her to retaliate. It will be great to solve this problem once and for all.
Mexico has never been our friend. The best thing we could do for the mexican people is to seal off the boarder and force their government to fix their own country instead of using the USA as a steam vent escape valve.
About twenty years ago, there was internet chatter about how the kids there were taught, in school, that our southwest really belongs to Mexico and that this immigration mess was termed as “reconquista”.
reconquista – IS Mouthed Here in the Great Lakes Region –
Tho THAT ISSUE WAS SETTLED by SPAIN Leaving the area during the FRENCH and INDIAN WARS in my Opinion.
I’ve been hearing that for at least 60 years.
DEI hire in Mexico….
The AOC of Mexico?
“Can you imagine how the multinational corporations are looking at this? They have funneled hundreds of billions in investments into Mexico, solely for the purpose of having access to the USA market. Sheinbaum can make all those investments disappear overnight and simultaneously collapse her government.”
I think they will have a talk with her or arrange a replacement rather quickly.
London Calling . . .
It is hilarious when people speak poignantly of things they know nothing about, and funnier yet is that Sheinbaum is in a position of power and corruption.
Wait a minute aren’t we going to be building back better do to a senile old man who sounds very similar?
Finally that rusty old train is coming to a stop. Thank God.
She ranks up there with Occasional Cortex when it comes to intellect.
Does this mean the NFL will boycott having games in Mexico City?😁
Better yet, no NASCAR race next year!
No, don’t tariff Mexican products, avocados are already too expensive.
Shall we continue to allow Mexico to hurt America and Americans so you can eat cheaper avocados?
The U.S. grows avocados too. The American growers can increase production.
They can use the California water currently being dumped down the drain unused.
Not until we get rid of the lefties infesting our government.
true!!
both california and florida produce not only Haas avocados,
but multiple other varieties as well, just as tasty if not more so! 🥑
You make a wonderful argument for continuing the illegal alien invasion… why didn’t I think of that?
(were you being sarcastic? I hope so)
California = Avocados!
.” The issue is trying to figure out when Mexico will run out of fruit”
2023 California Avocado Season wrap up | News | coastalview.com
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Not for me I just reach out my window from Nov. – March/April. My only competition is the squirrels and the dogs.
they are 1.25 a piece – bag of 4 for $5
All but two of Texas’ border counties with Mexico voted for Donald Trump.
“That has never happened in the entire history of the Republican Party”
Well Presidio only has 6 K so that does not even count. El Paso is the drug illegal link. There is your problem.
Presidio County is a county located in the U.S. state of Texas. As of the 2020 census, its population was 6,131.[1] Its county seat is Marfa.[2] The county was created in 1850 and later organized in 1875.[3] Presidio County (K-5 in Texas topological index of counties) is in the Trans-Pecos region of West Texas and is named for the border settlement of Presidio del Norte.[4] It is on the Rio Grande, which forms the Mexican border.
El Paso County is the westernmost county in the U.S. state of Texas. As of the 2020 census, the population was 865,657,[1] making it the ninth-most populous county in the state of Texas. Its seat is the city of El Paso,[2] the sixth-most populous city in Texas and the 22nd-most populous city in the United States. The county was created in 1850 and later organized in 1871.[3]
El Paso is short for “El Paso del Norte”, which is Spanish for “The Route of the North“. It is named for the pass the Rio Grande creates through the mountains on either side of the river. The county is northeast of the Mexico–United States border.