Today, President Donald J Trump signed an executive order triggering the first ever system of “reciprocal trade tariffs,” a seismic change in U.S. trade policy that will also consider the respective nation’s VAT (Value Added Tax) tariff.
Within the executive order [as outlined], the Secretary of Commerce and the United States Trade Representative will consider foreign industry subsidies, and non-monetary tariff barriers as part of the determination of the tariff levied. This is a stunning shift in U.S trade agreements that will cut through all the angles being deployed to avoid U.S. tariffs and block U.S exports into their country.
The policy will pressure foreign nations to lower their trade barriers to U.S. goods and eliminate disparity in foreign trade agreements. One big example will be the impact on the EU through the continuing Marshall Plan. The EU will now face reciprocal tariffs and no longer benefit from one-way tariff acceptance. There are obviously no tariffs on products made inside the USA.
With “reciprocal tariffs” the Commerce Dept and USTR will now determine the trade imbalances with each individual country and will evaluate each FTA (Free Trade Agreement), one-by-one to deconflict the trade imbalance. Direct tariffs, subsidies, regulatory hurdles, non-monetary trade barriers and hidden export subsidies will be addressed as part of the reciprocity evaluation. This is a completely new dynamic in the era of modern global trade and economics.
During the executive order signing event, President Trump took questions from the media. WATCH:
Between now and April 1st, each individual trade agreement will be evaluated with consideration for all facets of the cost for American companies to export to the evaluated nation. Direct tariffs, Value Added Taxes (VAT), state subsidies and non-monetary regulatory tariff barriers, will be determined for each nation. That nation will then be made aware of the tariff against each sector within their export system to the United States.
Effective April 2, 2025, President Trump will then have the tariff data provided by the USTR and Secretary of Commerce. President Trump will determine when the reciprocal tariff will be triggered and will likely engage in discussions with the leaders of the foreign nations.
These fireside chat-style impromptu pressers during executive order signings are awesome. The revolutionary change in government transparency and communication is, well, quite literally historic and stunning. The media can ask questions in real-time as the specific policy is implemented and explained, while simultaneously the ability of the media to shape an anti-Trump policy narrative is removed.
(Via ABC) – President Donald Trump on Thursday signed a memo calling on his administration to determine “the equivalent of a reciprocal tariff with respect to each foreign trading partner.”
“In other words, we’re going to customize the reciprocal tariff based on individual trading nations, and that will depend on their profile,” a senior administration official said on a call with reporters previewing the action.
This means the administration plans to impose tariffs on other countries that match the duties they impose on American products. The senior official says this allows the U.S. to “customize” the tariff to each trading partner based on their actions.
Trump previously announced tariffs on China, Mexico and Canada. While the 10% tariffs on China have been imposed, Trump paused the 25% tariffs on Canada and Mexico. Trump has also announced 25% tariffs on steel and aluminum that are expected to take effect next month.
Trump acknowledged “prices could go up somewhat short term” as a result of tariffs as he took reporters’ questions in the Oval Office. But he stressed Americans should expect jobs numbers to go up. “There could be some short-term disturbance, but long term, it’s going to it’s going to make our country a fortune,” he said.
An administration official outlined five types of actions it will take into account in determining the reciprocal tariffs for trading partners.
They include tariffs imposed on U.S. products; unfair, discriminatory or extraterritorial taxes imposed by trading partners, including a Value Added Tax; cost to United States businesses, workers and consumers, including subsidies and burdens and regulatory requirements; exchange rates; as well as any other practice that USTR determines is an unfair limitation.
Key players in this action will include the commerce secretary and United States Trade Representative, in consultation with the treasury secretary and Homeland Security secretary. Trump has nominated Cantor Fitzgerald CEO Howard Lutnick to lead the Commerce Department and attorney Jamieson Greer to be the U.S. Trade Representative. (read more)
Epic. And incredibly appropriate. Stuff is fixin’ to happen.
I’m also onboard with the pressers at the EO signings. Superb level of craft.
will it apply to Services? or only Goods?
looking at you India
Yeah, like all the Call Support Centers!
That are hardly understandable.
This should never have been foisted on the American people. We should have revolted and demanded understandable English to be spoken.
The Centers that deny medical referrals, admissions, tests, procedures by call centers that make a profit in proportion to the services they deny, and make it impossible to appeal; I know this is primarily a different problem, but companies that don’t really care about the quality of the support or approvals export their phone support to foreign entities who don’t have a dog in the fight except to make profits.
Much like the Chinese using Mongolians to massacre the Tienanmen crowds.
Mercenaries with no shared culture or values, or language all too often.
“Mercenaries with no shared culture or values, or language all too often.”
Hmm, sounds kind of like the ~60 MILLION illegal aliens on the loose throughout America… 🤔😉
Don’t it though!
Combining EO signing with the presser is good time management. He’s a successful businessman who knows the value of time.
That’s one of President Trump’s businessman-aspects I like most.
He is not going to waste our time with some prime time feel good story, he tells it like it is, in real time, during the work day while he is working.
For us.
Best CEO I’ve ever seen.
Its great news, and shows Trump is no longer offering military support to those countries, unless they pay. Wasn’t part of the one way tariffs due to Europe rebuilding after WW11, and in exchange America got military bases in those countries?
I was in Thailand in the 70’s and to get their airbases we had to build there highways! The locals had the supreme command of those bases but we actually controlled them. All the highways were built by us!
Do we really need those huge American bases in Germany?
Yes. Especially if the alternative is they are run by China..
Rammstein, in Germany, is also a hospital facility that is crucial to our troops when they are overseas.
I would reference those large, strategic bases, under “peace through strength”.
Why do you think PDJT has brought up the Panama Canal, and Greenland?
Direct communication to the public. Announcing the plan of the EO or the agreement between the leaders of the country while all are enthusiastic keep the deep state and WEF from manipulating the press and the paid protesters.
When what is inside….
appears on the outside.
Speaking of Tariffs. What about the FACT that 100% of Canadian Movies made by Clinton’s bagman in Canada (Lions Gate) are Subsidized by the Canadian (BC) Government?
Canada makes USAID look like bunch of pikers.
Canadian Steel. Right off the boats from China, unloaded in Vancouver. Drill a couple of holes in it, then cheat it into the U.S. by calling it “Made in Canada.”
Have DOGE check out how much Foreign Money got into the Canadian Arm of the Clinton Grift bag, name as Canadian Donations, but really from every dirtbag nation on earth to finance Bill and Hill’s grift. Donors hidden by Trudeau.
This was a great presser today. I enjoyed every minute of it. President Trump is blowing my mind😁👍
“The media can ask questions in real-time as the specific policy is implemented and explained, while simultaneously the ability of the media to shape an anti-Trump policy narrative is removed.”
The “media” just goes to various talking heads with TDS and does not broadcast the explanation.
Gonna be a hard act to follow.
I trust that VSG PDJT is training others to see and think like him, setting measures in place to make it difficult to undo what is in place.
He is putting policies at a practical level in place that supplement the Constitution as radically as when Thomas Jefferson, Adams, Franklin, and the other wise founders wrote it.
He is executing those possibilities immediately so their effect can be monitored as efficiently as Washington, Adams, Jackson, and McKinley and Reagan did — actually more so, just in his first term. This term is shaping up to be many times more revolutionary to the economic future of this country.
In the meantime, we need to be working on the morals of the country.
There are Christian revivals shaping up by GenXers, and many pockets of promise from among selected portions of our youth.
And the pathetic drama queens, that comprise the democrat party, will be forced to scream, cringe sing and make fools of themselves yet again.
Gettin’ to be music to my ears.
Play it again, Sam.
You haven’t heard them singing then. Either that or you’re tone deaf.
The 100,000s laid off federal workers are going to need jobs returning to America from Trump tariffs. I suggest they get their heads straight asap and support Trumps policies..
Read WaPo archived full article here: https://archive.is/JVQWe
Trump laid off 200,000 already. They are mostly those hired in the last year or two and are not “tenured’ fed yet.
Last in, first out.
Finally gummint showing a little similarity. to the Dreaded Private Sector.
President Trump
Field workers needed! In the fields. Gloves and a wide brim hat required.
We need to make videos and archive them as well.
So between now and when they take effect on April 1st, President Trump can expect many of these countries who have been taking advantage of us for decades to make trade agreement concessions that no longer punish American workers and the middle class. Tariffs are being used to leverage fair trade agreements. All the pearl clutchers moaning about higher prices and inflation can go suck eggs.
They can’t afford the eggs cuz Joe killed all the chickens.
Kroger went woke loony too. I’m going to the Amish.
They did…shame on them.
(You’ll be healthier for it, Hoo. Good people.)
That is really funny!!
Hahahahahahahaaaaa!
That was worth spilling my coffee.
Glad you didn’t have a mouthful, sis 😂
Oh Lord. Me too. All we can do is laugh right now.
The check-out lady at the grocery store asked me if I wanted my eggs double bagged today. I told her no, I’d really appreciate an armored truck.
I hope she laughed as I am doing, Lindy 😂
Very prescient and succinct Scrappy! 👏😎
I really hope PDJT finds time for a pardon for Navarro.
Maybe at the SOTU just before he’s awarded his Medal of Freedom . . .
In getting a pardon, Navarro would have to “admit” to some level of guilt. Perhaps, he has turned down an offer of a pardon. Maybe he can just wait for when the DOJ and DOGE destroy the people who wrongfully prosecuted and convicted him and then he is paid reparations out of the money we save getting rid of these thieves.
I don’t think he looks well. Thin and voice sounded a little weak.
I also wish he could help Tommy Robinson. They’re going to kill him if he’s in prison much longer. His lawyers must really suck.
Wasn’t Elon Musk supposed to have taken on this role? Never heard much more from him since he proclaimed this help for Tommy.
Seneca, I wish President Trump would make it clear that he will not accept the credentials of the new UK Ambassador Peter Mandelson (a truly grotesque man) until the UK government releases Tommy, who is being made an example of in solitary for noticing their egregious, nation destroying actions (or rather the lack of them regarding the Rotherham Pakistani rape gangs) and their immoral, godless Islamophilia.
I know, I know…
But I wish all the same.
Thanks to both of you. I had forgotten that angle – maybe Peter did decline.
In that case, Steve Bannon should get one – he’s pled guilty – to the “crime” of observing a couple hundred years of understood executive privilege.
Better if the DoJ petitions the court to drop/reverse all charges and issue a certificate of factual innocence.
That takes longer and it might require cooperation from a judge. But the result would be far more satisfying.
Love the snarling wolverine s. Winnamints gotta love’’em each and every day! God bless America
Love including VAT and other trade barriers into the calculations.
Freaking Brilliant.
Having geniuses working on our behalf is beyond comforting!
In the UK VAT is not a Trade Barrier. It is applied equally to all products regardless of source. Import duties are barriers.
VAT unequally applied makes it an obstacle.
VAT going in.
None going out.
“These fireside chat-style impromptu pressers during executive order signings are awesome.”
They definitely are.
Contrast to Slow Joe’s isolation.
SLO Joes being forgotten at the cyclic rate. Never was President and hopefully someday his time as resident is NULLIFIED. Pray Treepers Pray. 🤲
Lotta judge rats installed during Bidung….
When the 2020 Election Theft can’t be denied, when Zero’s ineligibility is proven, PDJT can lead a Nullification and Reconciliation Commission wherein every single act, order, signature, appointment and nomination and downstream actions of every executive agent, is up for evaluation and the only things that will stand will be those that PDJT as the only legitimately elected President in decades puts his imprimatur upon, all else pass away, to include judicial appointments.
Erase Zero!!
Not to mention, the derp state must be destroyed!
Damn Straight!
Boy, that would be a dream come true.
No, I didn’t even quite dream that positively, but close. It would be God answering far more than I even thought to ask or imagine.
Maybe even get the Kenyan nullified! A man can dream can’t he? Ozero never produced a legit Birth Certificate! I still have Malik’s copy of Barry’s Certificate.
I included him in that process, I composed this thought before Biden was ever wheeled onto the stage.
Not only was Zero Constitutionally ineligible, he was created by the CIA, using USAID.
His mother worked for USAID, curious, no?
Lovely
Joe who?
Contrast to Senile Joe using the creepy whisper, yelling old man at the clouds or other nonsense, then turning his back on America and walking out.
I read today Biden raided a program to help homeless veterans to the tune of $2 billion, and used it for illegal aliens.
Just a despicable POS.
PDJT is right: Last week I bought some vitamines products on the net, witch finally came from USA, worth 64,16 euros, and I had to pat through DHL exactly 34 euros . That’s a 50% tariff and taxes here in France. Therefore USA should apply the same to french products.
I’m snagging the Le Creuset pieces I want right now!
Aldi knock offs make me happy
I’m a Francophile, sue me!
I mean tariff me!
😁
“I had to PAY..”
Or just ban them.
IMMUNO150
Is made USA
Thank you, just ordered notwithstanding the 50% french tariff and taxes.
The best president since the founding fathers.
The founders started from scratch. VSG PDJT has had to unravel a wad of fishing line, submerged in the swamp, while being literally and figuratively shot and and attacked by the WEF
Well, I wouldn’t consider the British Empire such a lightweight in the opposition department.
After all, they are behind the schemes PDJT is unraveling now, n’est-ce pas?
Agreed, Maquis
While we are looking at trade, I would highly suggest that the Whitehouse propose and promote legislation to make it illegal to import merchandise fraudulently marked “USA” or “made in USA”, or marked in such a way to lead a reasonable person to believe it is the product of the US.
This step (which imo is a no brainer):
1. Makes trademark and copyrights easier to enforce. There are currently many steps involved before large commercial shipments can be seized for copyright (piratical) or counterfeit. Or for 18USC2320 (trafficking such products). These cases are rarely prosecuted .
2. Protects the USA brand.
3. Protects US manufacturers.
Yes, there is law/reg for NLM (not legally marked with country of origin), but typically these cases result in a “marking notice” advising that the product be properly marked before sale. Substantive enforcement is unusual.
Great point!
Chinese companies used to run a scam (probably still do) where they run sweatshop operations in the Northern Marianas Islands (out in the Pacific near Guam.) Those islands are considered US territory. But they do not follow regular US immigration and trade policies. So the Chinese could ship in the workers, ship in the materials, do final manufacturing thre and stamp the products “Made in USA.”
Could amazon be required to put country of origin/manufacture in the description AND have it in their filter, too?
Sometimes I really do want just about any country but China for my searches. And yes, ideally American
I kinda remember that Japan had a city or so named Usa or similar. This is maybe 40 years ago or so. When those transistor radios were popular.
I for one am appreciating Our President not allowing the US to be taken advantage of in such a ridiculous, one sided, financial penalties from other countries.
I’m not sure if “reciprocal” as much as “self-controlled” would be a better way to describe the inherent fairness of this.
Most Americans are not familiar with a VAT and how compounding it is to costs for the consumer and tax monies to government coffers.
The sound of his Sharpie stabbing out his signature should be sampled for a MAGA song.
Commie eyelids surely twitch at that sound alone!
I’m sure there’s a creative MAGA beatbox artist out there somewhere.
“The sound of MAGA.”
Have you heard this MAGA heavy metal anthem on X – FAFO – and it’s great!
https://x.com/JYoungbluth/status/1889741047879602390/video/1
OK. It is great
Or a ring tone. I’m sure any nearby Dems would enjoy that.
Absolument!
Within the hour after all the itemized tariffs are posted, 1 million import/exporters will begin middlemaning.
Our President Trump is the greatest ringmaster of all times. All he needs is a whip and a chair.
I’m blinded by brilliance of President Trump and his little friends.
This is UUUUGE!
The market responded nicely to the news. So much for claims that Trump will destroy the economy, Wall Street knows it won’t. This Yahoo Finance headline implies that the market bounced upward because Trump isn’t implementing the tariffs right away, which is ludicrous. “Stock market today: S&P 500 nears record, Dow, Nasdaq jump as Trump announces reciprocal tariffs, delays implementation“
Pretty much the same BS at CNBC. It’s my go-to site to see what the leftists and globalists want us to believe – if only we would.
Sort of reminds one of when Admiral Perry and gunboat diplomacy opened up Japan to trade with us 1853-1854.
No screwing around with President Trump.
He opened up his big guns on the EU.
Does anyone know who Trump’s assistant is for the executive order signing? I love this guy. He’s so formal and respectful to Trump. I love that he said “Yes, sir” after Trump said “All great people” about the nominees for the intelligence advisory board.
Found it. Will Scharf. He has quite a resume! Too much to include in this comment, you can see some info here: https://www.kget.com/news/politics/ap-whos-the-guy-handing-trump-those-binders-of-executive-orders-meet-will-scharf/
👁️👁️Again?
Did I ask before?
I love him too and have commented about him recently. There is something really sweet about him. As noted, he is so respectful. Thanks for the background info about him.
Thank you TGTW!
Indeed, Will Scharf has a very interesting background. He ran against Andrew Bailey for Missouri AG. Bailey was discussed at CTH as a good fit for PDJT’s US AG.
This is hilarious:
“His campaign included a memorable ad in which the mild-mannered lawyer appears to use a grenade launcher to fire on a pile of boxes that were labeled to look like they contained legal documents related to Trump’s criminal cases.”
Thanks! I hadn’t seen this.
Now I’m looking at info about Scharf’s AG primary opponent, Andrew Bailey, who won the general. Everything that I have seen so far seems to indicate that Bailey is pro-Trump. I wonder why Scharf ran against him.
Gonna put a hurt on climate scam.
The EU will particularly feel the pain from this. The Aussies are also crying foul.
Thanks for posting all the great news.
I have a couple of possibly stupid questions if anyone can answer.
What happened with the USMCA? Did Biden undo anything? Because it seems trade with Mexico and Canada upon President Trump’s return was worse than ever. Is the USMCA still in effect and were there some loopholes that weren’t seen before?
Also, I’ve purchased some items off of Amazon . (EUcountry) and the VAT tax was always removed for me being a purchaser from the USA. I don’t know about vehicles VAT, but regular retail from another EU country, the VAT is removed so wondering where we’re getting hit on VAT besides vehicles.
Kaco,
My understanding is that USMCA is coming up for review/renewal next Summer. I think this “loophole” provides the leverage to renegotiate multiple key issues such as country-of-origin and others:
“USMCA contains a provision providing for a joint review process through which all three parties confirm to continue the agreement, the first time such a provision has been included in a U.S. trade agreement. The first joint review is scheduled for July 1, 2026.”
PDJT let us know before the election that he intends to renegotiate it.
Front Row Seats right here!
Where do we buy tickets?
I should hope you donate regularly to CTH, but as I understand it all are welcome!
You are confusing exports TO europe with imports FROM europe
europe is tariffing our exports TO them
Additionally, the VAT applies to things sold into Europe, but they drop it when selling to us, as Kaco observed seeing.
An “innocent” tax serving as a genuine trade barrier.
VAT removed on their exports, but added to their imports. It can be pretty steep.
17% when I was in Germany.
VAT is added onto the costs those counties’ consumers pay for imported products. So it acts like a blanket tariff by those countries. Stuff they export gets a VAT rebate, which acts like a subsidy.
That is not correct. VAT is applied equally regardless of source, imported or local production. Where imports attract duty that is added to the cost of an item before VAT calculation. Exports are treated for VAT similarly to an internal sale to enable the final added value in a product to be VAT taxed.
It is alazing to witness!
He needs to keep going & increase speed. The liberals won’t be able to keep up & they are all over the place right now.
Precisely. By the time they mount an hysterical response the story is already old news. Keep ’em coming!
Faster please.
“We must impeach judges who are grossly undermining the will of the people and destroying America.”
https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1889543691947352577
“That’s exactly what judges were doing in El Salvador in 2021… So we impeached them all and then proceeded to fix the country.”
https://x.com/nayibbukele/status/1889529272269770938
Well, You have spelled ‘communists’ wrong!
Communist is spelled U.S.P.A.I.D. in corruptionese.
DEMOCRATS JUDGE SHOPPING
Faster please.
https://revolver.news/2025/02/x-user-reveals-how-doge-can-beat-left-wing-activist-judges-at-their-own-game/
At the risk of asking a stupid question, is the point here that if these countries to get these countries to take away their tariffs. And if they do, then our tariffs will go away, creating the global free trade environment that should’ve been there in the first place?
Yes.
Yes
It should ultimately help get diesel dually F250’s running down Italian cobblestone streets and German autobahns
Yeah, um, good luck with that!
I had a little Toyota pickup over there for a while and it felt like a whale on those roads.
Yes. However there is another consideration.
The problem for the EU will also face is their socialist programs and overly generous subsidies are dependent upon the tariffs they collect from us.
They are not in a position to drop their tariffs on us as they cannot replace that revenue.
They sure as hell aren’t going to tell the MILLIONS of “refugees and migrants” living large on the dole, while heavily armed themselves 😉 that the socialism and freebies are over. That would be actual suicide.
They would have to generate revenue or tax their own people even more.
Why, they might decide not to suicide Western Civilization after all.
Time to dump your Derps, Euro peeps.
Dear God, let’s hope so.
Indeed, I pray for them too.
I follow folk over there, they are taking courage from our pulling back from the brink.
Self-determination is contagious.
I hope some other countries there are inspired by Hungary’s Victor Orban and his big middle finger to the EU.
This is the one time I hope a contagion spreads.
I recall someone saying, 🤔
Slowly at first.. then all at once.
Land slides and avalanches.
Sounds like common sense.
They can go find another sucker Nation.
https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/113920366067218393
Watch Trump take care of rude Kaitlan Collins at 17:19. He shuts down her question and then calls on someone else. rofl
The sour look on her face was priceless.
She of the Never Resting Bitch Face only has a sour look, like, ever.
Here’s what we’re doing and why and how it benefits the people.
Ask your questions now before you have a chance to spin and shade everything.
Instead of the “bully pulpit” we’re getting government by of and for the people.
When do we move to the investigation, indictment phase, Pam?
“I can’t talk about any of that with you.”
I don’t agree that a VAT is similar to a tariff.
A tariff is applied to a product being imported. A VAT is applied to both imported and domestically produced items.
Yes, the VAT is piled on top of any imported items subjected to a tariff. But if an item is exported to a country with a VAT but NOT a tariff, that item will be subjected to the same VAT as items being made in that country.
Yes, but, as Kaco observed seeing above, and as PDJT noted, they often drop that VAT when selling to the US, hence, they make our products more expensive going that way and theirs less expensive going this way.
Hence, it creates a trade barrier, an uneven playing field, and PDJT looks to level that.
In the UK there is no difference in VAT treatment depending on exported to country, all are equal.
The VAT is added to each layer in the production to end user chain. It is horribly regressive.
Yes but VAT is only added to the increase in value at each stage of a products process.
It is the same as a final sales tax except that the taxing authority is collecting its share bit by bit. Great for their cashflow but increased admin costs all along the way instead of just at the end sale.
I’m in the UK and had a company subject to VAT.
Thanks for your rare on the money comment.
Trump is in such control a pleasure to watch him speak…
MAGA management!😀🇱🇷😉
“The media can ask questions in real-time as the specific policy is implemented and explained, while simultaneously the ability of the media to shape an anti-Trump policy narrative is removed.”
Don’t ya just love it.😉
We don’t want to get even, we want to get ahead of the game.
Holy crap.
Now we’re talking Mr. president.
Thank you!
Much much more of this, pretty please. 😁❤️👍🇺🇸🙏
It’s true that these impromptu pressers are short circuiting the media’s efforts to lie/spin/distort the narrative against President Trump. That’s definitely a great outcome, but it’s not the only positive outcome.
President Trump’s pressers are top notch civics lessons delivered to hundreds of millions of Americans in real time. He is teaching the country how a president is supposed to carry out his Constitutional duties.
He is shining a spotlight on the evil lawfare being committed against him by the UniParty Deep State.
He is also demonstrating by example what can be accomplished by one man with courage and with faith in God.
We are witnessing an ongoing master class in constitutional republicanism, civic virtue, American Exceptionalism, and Godly leadership. We are truly blessed by God to be living in these extraordinary times with such an extraordinary President.
Amen to all of that! 🙏🏽❤️
Holy Smokes! Is that happening in reality anywhere? It sure is a good idea.
Or maybe a little grace and benevolence. Get your free healthcare here — one last time, before your trip back to your homeland. Be sure to tell others how good it is here, and how you messed up by breaking our laws. And let them know about the good Sherriff that is back in town.
How ’bout no.
Steve Bannon Warroom…
President Trump, Modi and Abe in Japan all viewed the world through the lens of their country.
https://rumble.com/v6kihfp-bannon-these-are-nationalists-that-see-the-world-through-the-lens-of-their-.html
Very. Stable. Genius.
everyone is invited to C-suite as they say!!
wonder if any B schools prof is assigning class to watch and learn and discuss
My old poly-sci guy would have. Man I miss the ,,, naw never mind.. PDJT has this. And God has everything. God bless America
Off-topic:
Keep VP Vance and Sec’s Rubio and Hegseth in your prayers.
Keep Rubio at arms length and on a short leash.
🙏
Okay, Detroit, the Climate Scam is dying, EVs are boring, PDJT is setting the economy afire, build something I’d really want to drive!!
Small, fast, fun, manual shift, excellent outside visibility, sharp as all get out.
We been waiting a very very long time.
While your asking…
I’d like a truck that will pull a flatbed toting a backhoe without resorting to extra features. With an 8′ bed again.
That doesn’t cost more than my first house.
That too.
Somehow corrupt unions and soulless bean counters need to be dealt out of the equation.
Frankly, the quality of American offerings for the most part embarrasses me.
Government diktats regarding every facet of modern vehicles doesn’t help.
I read an article a while back that explained why you essentially can’t get what you want anymore because the EPA rules, they had the link to the rules which essentially makes it impossible to put anything but an electric “engine” in anything with a small wheelbase like my old 1992 Sonoma pickup.
The EPA has it all structured about wheelbase now (2011 thank Obama)that is why we all keep getting big a$$ SUV’s and trucks(no tax penalty), cause if they build something that I would actually buy, car companies would have to pay THOUSANDS of $$$ of penalty’s (for EACH vehicle) to the GVT for the gall to make something that I want but GVT does not want unless it contains a frikin electric “motor” at the MPG(CAFE) level required would make it all but impossible unless you put animals in a big squirrel cage to run & motor you do down the road(or a 4 cycle fuel injected 1 or 2 cylinder lawn mower engine that you would not like on a freeway).
Yes, much regulation must be slashed to empower such sanity.
I wonder if we have anybody in DC that might be able to help us out with that?
😉
Efficiency instead of choking down engines with smog gear.
Once I emptied a catalytic converter on a CJ7 Jeep of the catalyst so it effectively had no cat converter on it just the shell. I had the 6 banger engine at peak tune and it passed an EPA sniffer test on Regular non-ethanol gas at altitude in Colorado of all places!
(Warning: It’s of course illegal to tamper with emissions gear on an auto in the USA)
Definitely not legal, as a master mechanic, I had many people ask for things over the years & even management harassing me that why did I not just…….?
My simple answer, I am not paying the 10,000$ fine for doing X … as I always assumed it was a sting but I’m sure management would have reimbursed me for the fine right? ….. right? Just so I could have made an extra 20 bucks & them 80. LOL (I hear the split now is 15/85 one of the reasons I went to forklifts)
It does shock me that it passed emissions testing w/o a cat converter, it should have turned on the check engine light for oxygen sensor malfunction but with fuel injection & efficient operation must not have …. I never tried, I’m still driving that 92 throttle body injection Sonoma truck with 225K miles.
When that engine(2.8v6) gives up the ghost, I will rebuild/replace for another 200K & put another clutch in it. Most dependable vehicle I ever had, interior is shot but that too is fixable.
Affordable.
Wasn’t he supposed to start releasing DOGE uncovered fraud and names at the presser? Maybe I missed that.
Loved our Toll in Chief mentioned he talked with Governor Trudeau. Lol
Different event I believe.
I think DOGE merits its own exposition.
Man, Kaitlin Collins Does. Not. Learn.!
Poor girl can’t help it. She’s dumb as a bag of hammers.
Lil X to the press: “Shh. You’re not the President. You need to go!”
Making American Autarky Great Again
Here’s another benefit of these for the USA. When I buy something, I try to buy American but it can get tough to do when companies are owned by one or more parent companies or are just foreign parts assembled here. Hopefully now, the cheapest item is the one Made In The USA!
Best Oval Office presser yet!
On a side note as to government waste, fraud and abuse, back when Bushy II was in office, I reported a two-day VA hearing on how to get services to our veterans (a never- ending quagmire). After the hearing, as I’m on my way out of the building, I was stopped by an official with the GAO’s office. He asked about purchasing a copy of the transcript of the hearing.
Now, I am looking at his business card that says, “US GAO” on it and wondering why in the world he would not just contact the VA and get a copy of it. I told him I would be in contact with him after I spoke with the VA contact.
THE VA CONTACT SAID IN NO UNCERTAIN TERMS WAS THE GAO TO BE PROVIDED A COPY!
No government agency wants to be accountable or share their information with anyone else in the government
Mind blowing!
How soon can we hope for the income tax to be eliminated and the IRS shuttered? No sarc added. Earnest question, with high hopes.
How
Peak crisis.
https://thenationalpulse.com/2025/02/12/neocons-clutch-pearls-as-doge-sets-sights-on-globalist-national-endowment-for-democracy/
What a brilliant move! Now each country has to develop their own trade scenario! Just might change the way their World Economic Forum has to do business! 😎
WEF is a Suicide Pact for the West on behalf of China.
Run out of The City.
Hence, WEF is scheduled for demolition.
And since we are upside-down in almost all tariff situations, in cannot help but be favorable in almost every case.