For many of us who walk the deep weeds of honest economic analysis, this is the moment we have been waiting for.
Second only to the elimination of the U.S-Marshal Plan, which is scheduled to end April 2, 2025, the structural implementation of North American tariffs against Mexico and Canada provides the most significant opportunity for GDP expansion, jobs, wage increases and massive economic gains in the United States.
Simultaneous to the tariffs scheduled to go into effect tomorrow, President Trump notes U.S. food prices are positioned for major supply-demand changes that will benefit all American consumers. What President Trump notes in the Truth Social message below, is a reality we experienced in 2018/2019 as the result of national agriculture supply.
White House trade adviser Peter Navarro told CNBC on Monday that the inflationary impact from any tariffs would be “second-order small, so I don’t see the president wavering on any of this, because he knows in order to get to a world in which America is strong and prosperous, with real wages going up and (more) factory jobs. This is the path that he’s chosen.” (more)
CTH outlined the prediction for ’18/’19 back in 2016 when we discussed what happens when the American food supply equation is modified to focus on domestic production to the benefit of domestic consumers. The food supply chain will shift, slowly at first and then ultimately by around Thanksgiving of this year (fall harvest) we will see major price drops in the American food basket.
There are going to be major opposition forces, notably related to decades of Big Ag exfiltration, screaming that U.S. consumers will see higher prices. However, as previously experienced/outlined these claims are entirely false. We will see major drops in food prices as a result of a more balanced U.S production-import/export dynamic.
Think in terms of the COVID-19 disruption we experienced in the food supply chain. Major shortfalls in consumer products were noted because the supply chain for agriculture could not respond quickly enough to the shutting down of 50% of the food/caloric delivery system (food away from home).
In the food production system we are about to experience, a reversal of product availability is to be anticipated; there will be abundance.
In the short term, there will be some supply chain disruption as the import equation (total cost of goods) changes to reflect the tariff impact. However, long term, we will see (example citrus) farm products returning to FL/CA farm production from Mexico.
Generally speaking about 50% of the USA bulk food system is ‘one full harvest’ ahead of demand. Grain silos, frozen product and processed food stuffs are generally a full harvest ahead. Ex. the Frozen turkey you purchase in November is a product outcome of a production process that takes place all year. Canned foods, dried foods, spices and other derivatives follow the same supply chain background. The length of this process is approximately 6 months.
On the fresh food side (think in terms of the perimeter of the grocery store), the supply chain is thin and holds less inventory in the supply system; the flow from field to fork is much faster. Fresh seasonal foods come/go as this supply chain reflects the seasonal harvests – with a portion of those fresh products also entering the processed space as ingredients.
The USA exports a massive amount of food. Our farmers are some of the most productive farmers in the world, not only feeding Americans but also exporting food and ingredients globally. Corn, soybeans, wheat, hay, potatoes and derivatives are major exports. Also, as an example, every McDonald’s french frie in the world comes from U.S.A potatoes.
Our row crops are top quality products recognized throughout the world for the consistency that comes from a loving God who has blessed the United States with some of the most fertile soil on the planet. Americans are blessed.
The issues we have faced in the past several decades comes from Big Ag and Big Rx manipulating our domestic production (genetically modified outputs) in order to maximize the corporate profit agenda. Big Ag and Big Rx will fight against tariffs with extreme ferocity because the dynamic of economic nationalism, supply-demand production and lower prices therein are against the multinational interests.
Our sunbelt farmers can produce everything that is imported from Mexico and central America, an import tariff resets the price structure permitting them to enter the production system with organic profits. It may take a little time for the reset of pricing to travel to new fields and then ultimately to our forks, but it will happen if the USA holds strong in support of the rebalancing.
Influential people, politicians (rules) and corporate leaders (profits), both with vested financial interests in the process, have sold a narrative that global manufacturing, global sourcing, and global production is the inherent way of the future. The same voices claimed the American economy was/is consigned to become a “service-driven economy.”
What was always missed in these discussions is that advocates selling this global-economy message have a vested financial and ideological interest in convincing the information consumer it is all just a natural outcome of economic progress.
It’s not.
It’s not natural at all. It is a process that is entirely controlled, promoted and utilized by large conglomerates, lobbyists, purchased politicians and massive multinational corporations.
To understand who opposes President Trump, Jair Bolsonaro, or any economic nationalist, specifically because of the economic leverage against multinational corporations their policy creates, it becomes important to understand the objectives of the global and financial elite who run and operate the institutions. The Big Club.
Understanding how trillions of trade dollars influence geopolitical policy we begin to understand the three-decade global financial construct they seek to protect.
That is, global financial exploitation of national markets.
FOUR BASIC ELEMENTS:
♦Multinational corporations purchase controlling interests in various national outputs (harvests and raw materials), and ancillary industries, of developed industrial western nations. {example}
♦The Multinational Corporations making the purchases are underwritten by massive global financial institutions, multinational banks. (*note* in China it is the communist government underwriting the purchase)
♦The Multinational Banks and the Multinational Corporations then utilize lobbying interests to manipulate the internal political policy of the targeted nation state(s).
♦With control over the targeted national industry or interest, the multinationals then leverage export of the national asset (exfiltration) through trade agreements structured to the benefit of lesser developed nation states – where they have previously established a proactive financial footprint.
For three decades economic “globalism” has advanced, quickly. Everyone accepts this statement, yet few actually stop to ask who and what are behind this – and why?
Every element of global economic trade is controlled and exploited by massive institutions, multinational banks and multinational corporations.
Institutions like the World Trade Organization (WTO), World Bank and International Monetary Fund (IMF), control trillions of dollars in economic activity. Underneath that economic activity there are people who hold the reins of power over the outcomes. These individuals and groups are the stakeholders in direct opposition to principles of America-First national economics.
The modern financial constructs of these entities have been established over the course of the past three decades. When you understand how they manipulate the economic system of individual nations you begin to understand why they are so fundamentally opposed to President Trump.
In the Western World, separate from communist control perspectives (ie. China), “Global markets” are a modern myth; nothing more than a talking point meant to keep people satiated with sound bites they might find familiar; but the truth is ‘global markets’ have been destroyed over the past three decades by multinational corporations who control the products formerly contained within global markets. This is the function of the World Economic Forum.
The same is true for “Commodities Markets.” The multinational trade and economic system, run by corporations and multinational banks, now controls the product outputs of independent nations. The free market economic system has been usurped by entities who create what is best described as ‘controlled markets’. {GO DEEP}
Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick gets it. The essential core of MAGAnomics. Drive down the cost of goods through expanded energy development, then leverage reciprocity in tariffs to end the exfiltration of wealth. Then cut out regulation and unleash American enterprise. This is the way to reverse this insufferable economic trajectory that creates a “service driven economy.”
President Trump wants to Make the American Farmer Great Again!
YEEHAA AMIGOS!!
Jeff Bezos gets it too.
He is restructuring The Washington Post to support Free Speech and Free Markets.
The first is the bait, the second the poison.
Pas bon pour manger!
He’s doing his best to stay relevant in the race for world’s richest.
Zuckerberg is doing the same thing. Butt kissing whoever they have to for more shekels.
Do you believe Bezos and Zuckerbucks are doing these things of their own free will? Or do you think they are doing it for some other reasons?
I believe it’s being done for other reasons. I believe they and many others are captured operations now and their empires are operating under the control of Commander Trump and crew.
That’s the only thing that makes sense to me. It is in alignment with President Trump’s first term Executive Orders which are still in effect on Election Interference and Trafficking.
Either way, it doesn’t matter how or why they are “acting with new found interests in the USA and Free Speech and Free Markets, etc here” because the results for We the People are the same. It’s America First.
President Trump may have “lost” the 2020 election battle (gave the appearance of losing the 2020 election battle) in order to win the much, much larger “saving of America” war.
I view so many other things taking place through this lens. Captured, cooperating, finally seeing the light…call it whatever you want, the results are all the same. The good guys are winning, winning, winning and the bad guys are slowly and steadily being cleansed from the chessboard.
American greatness returns because American saboteurs are being removed.
‘ President Trump may have “lost” the 2020 election battle (gave the appearance of losing the 2020 election battle) in order to win the much, much larger “saving of America” war. ‘
Some observations spotted in the wild:
Could it be that Trump “lost” in 2020 as part of a longer term Plan, with the events of 2021-2025 furthering the decline of the US and building the backlash which now whipsaws in the opposite direction under Trump/DOGE?
The whipsaw successively cutting the US down with the 4 year back and forth cycles, alternating cuts against the left vs. the right to effect a downward trend over time.
If you don’t think we are now in a reverse cut of the whipsaw, consider:
1) DOGE attacks are focused on things totalling only a few percent of overall budget, while Trump and Congress are pushing to continue the current substantial deficit spending.
Government spending is propping up the deindustrialized US, DOGE cuts will pull the props out too fast for a real industry based economy to grow enough to compensate.
DOGE attacks on the federal workforce will not reduce government spending by more than 1% (or 25% of the payroll which is 4% of budget total), they will mainly serve to:
a) Decimate recent hires and future hiring necessary long-term.
b) Decimate more experienced senior ranks.
c) Destroy morale.
d) Overload the workforce with reporting burdens and force it into a precarious state in constant fear of capricious firing, to grind it down with excessive drudgery, while destroying trust and cohesion.
(a), (b), (c), and (d) will mainly result in worsening dysfunction. Including the defense side. (The Feb 26 OPM RIF memo includes support contractor cuts.)
2) Ukraine is being steered by the US toward a tripwire of EU troops likely to trigger WWIII.
3) The negative repercussions of reversing years of illegal immigration and unconstitutional woke overreach including the LGBT insanity are going to be huge.
4) The modRNA program effects continue in the injected while the broader perception management program appears to have succeeded.
Now the Replicons are being readied to deploy on the US Bloc only.
RFJ Jr is strangely silent on all this, apparently riding the reverse cutting whipsaw.
https://www.thefocalpoints.com/p/european-approval-of-experimental
‘ The United States must REJECT this dangerous technology, especially with the FDA already approving a Phase 1 trial for a Gates-funded self-amplifying H5N1 “pandemic” bird flu injection ‘
Your line items look impressive at first glance. Are you trying to motivate the MAGA Treepers or show us your slant towards degrading the initial blast of Trumpanomics, Trumplomacy and Trumpdevolution of the extremely bloated and lawless US govt??? Your complaining reeks of govt worker or contractor despair. 👀🫵🏼
WorkForHim,
My comments draw on observations in many quarters, combined (synthesized) into higher-level views of the big picture.
To cut through smoke and mirrors and see reality.
For example:
Reality: DOGE is mostly posturing for effect – the goal is supposedly reducing waste, but evidently that is not the TRUE goal, as these math-literate folks surely see that 4% of total budget spent on the federal payroll yields insignificant spending reduction percentage-wise.
Likewise, DOGE’s other cuts are insignificant, percentage-wise:
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/key-charts-explain-doge-related-cuts-so-far
And DOGE won’t even touch the big spending deficits until September at the earliest? Translation: Maybe never.
http://www.politico.com/live-updates/2025/03/03/congress/spending-bill-text-weekend-cr-00208991
‘ President Donald Trump said last week he wanted a “clean” continuing resolution through the end of September. Johnson said in interviews Sunday that he would heed that directive and not seek to codify cuts made by Trump’s Department of Government Efficiency until fiscal 2026 begins in the fall. ‘
Open your eyes to reality. What are the ulterior machinations behind the “narrative” we are being fed?
Good (or at least successful) political management consists of making it profitable for the wrong people to do the right thing.
2.0’s
Have been, for quite a while.
I’m not weeping any tears over it.
And Zuckerburg (what is it about these Z’ people…..
DUMP them both.
DONE with seeing, hearing, listening to them.
He’s not for free markets. He’s for cheap trinkets from China that come from their overcapacity and robbery of Our technology and intellectual property. He’s for his pocketbook.
It’s always nice to see Peter Navarro’s name mentioned.
Some pedantry by me:-
Not in Australia. McDonalds Australia sources almost all of its taters from Australian producers (some 300 million pounds annually). The only time they source from overseas is when there are disruptions to local supplies, such as droughts, floods etc.
Same goes for other ingredients in Maccas products.
You all keep eating that many fries down there you’ll throw the globe off its axis.
Just stop it!
😬
If we in the USA keep eating all those greasy spuds will our North American continent sink?
Call Hank, he’ll explain, if Guam can tip over, we can sink
With Hank’s logic Europe would gain altitude if we pull US troops from NATO…..right?
Grease floats. Eat more to save us from climate change flooding!
Good one! LOL!
Fast food needs to switch to tallow. They are killing Americans with every bite!
I just read that Steak n Shake has already switched to tallow.
Eating fries down under.
That has always been the Aussie goal, Maquis. Upending the world order began on September 26, 1983.
Uh Oh Oko!
How you liking those ‘roo burgers at mickey D’s ? /s
(let me add that all beef tasted “strange-different” than American beef on my one and only visit to Australia)
Some beef also tastes “strange” to those of us that have been around for quite a while, down here.
Some breeds seem to have a different flavour to their meat, compared to a Braford, Santa Gertrudis, Hereford, etc (the ‘older, traditional’ breeds).
I suspect part of the taste differential might be feedlot fed versus grass fed and what the feedlot ration is made up of.
My opinion is that wild cattle are put through the feedlots to pack on the weight, then sent to the public for consumption – but they are still ‘scrubbers’ at heart… and all the best cuts are sent to export, anyway (everything Halal slaughtered, of course – all kill floors are aligned with Mecca, in the large meatworks – nottalottapeople know that).
Of course, we use knives and forks when eating beef – none of this using the side of a fork to cut your lot fed steak (giggles).
G’day! Australia is an amazing country with great people and poor government.
I raise on grass but finish on grain my own young healthy un-medicated beef for personal and family consumption. IMHO the only bad effects from graining any livestock is the pass through if you use commercial grains of genetically modified grains or mixing soy into the feed ration. Grained beef tastes amazing and young beef is tender if prepared correctly. Beef is what you put into it.
I would compare the difference to be the same as fries in beef tallow versus fries in seed oils. Tallow gives a great taste and is healthier versus the seed oil fries.
I found Australian fish and chips and seafood in general to taste great! Your beer is ever so much better (like West End Draught) than large brewery American pilsners.
Get yer mates together and toss out those silly sods running your government!
We also raise steers. Our’s are sourced through dairy farmers who breed their cows with red, or black Angus. We’ve raised Holstein, Guernsey, and Jersey cross breeds. They all taste great. Our pastures have Timothy, alfalfa and we do 3 year seedings of barley, Oats. The steers are pastured after cutting /bailed. We have cold winters here so we also grain the steers with 16% cow grower from local Co-op. The Steers grow big in 2 1/2 years with our average hanging weigh of 1200#. We prefer Holstein/Angus, Guernsey/Angus, but have tried the Jersey/Angus. Jersey / Angus are big boned from the Jersey and have less meat. Our meat is finished with grain for the last 3 months.
With that said, We cannot stand meat from big box grocery stores. If and when we run out, we go to the local butcher and get our meat. We rarely run out of meat, but sometimes if it’s getting older we give it away.
Red Angus are tasty.
Amen, Monti. I know some depthcharge lads and lasses in Victoria.
Hmm. Why do I hear horses whinny when I pass the Aussie slaughterhouses? Asking for a friend in Australia.
Your friend may have forgot that was when he was in France.
Actually, horses that were being slaughtered in the US were being shipped to France.
After the big dust up that shut down kill plants here, the slaughter horses were being shipped across the river into Mexico for slaughter.
I don’t know what is happening with that now.
There is a difference in texture, flavor and marbling in different breeds of cattle, most of the flavor of all meat is a reflection of what the animal was eating.
Corn makes yellow fat.
Yellow fat is not good for you. White fat is necessary for good health.
McDonald’s outside the US tastes better and appears more real than ours. All because of these policies and their stricter food guidelines (EU)
Basing it on experience too, European Mickey D’s germany, Italy, Croatia,Poland…..
Our McDonald’s makes you feel sick after ingesting
I’ll back that up, PS. Not so local grower brought a swag of ‘deformed’ spuds down to myself and mates as ‘thanks’ for repairing his access road for semi access, some years ago.
He also brought a few ‘good’ examples to show us what Maccas required.
Mention of “but the truth is ‘global markets’ have been destroyed over the past three decades by multinational corporations” also applies in other realms….seeing the number of companies closing stores or laying off etc…(Walgreens, Kohls, Macy’s, Party City, Big Lots etc)…over speculation? Sunsetting of policy?
Looking forward to our great farmers actually being great again…or ‘made whole’.
I think a lot of corporations bet differently on the recently impending election.
Some saw blight and cut back, literally eliminating salesmen saying the installers could do both jobs, a bet on a Kommie Econ🤡my.
Some saw light and took a chance on excellence and expansion.
Looking forwards to Americans choosing excellence and hope always.
The Golden Age is upon us!
So many stores closed secondary to Covid
They just couldn’t cut it after being forced to close
Just awful.
I actually like to go to stores and lok and feel items
Shopping on line has advantages but often things are not as advertised and cheaply made
Online shopping.
Violence in the malls.
Consumers losing jobs or otherwise on a budget.
Disgust at all the Chinese or other offshore made products.
But I think there’s another reason no one talks about: Saturation.
Everywhere you look people are trying to downsize, declutter, become minimalists, give away or just not buy so much.
The roads are overfull
Our houses and closets and garages are overfull.
I truly believe as a nation we’re more saturated than we admit; at some point that has to affect the economy.
Treepers…Kohls pulled a fast one one me…I ordered a Columbia fleece jacket in teal color. They sent green. I kept it against my better judgement…but won’t go to Kohls again unless I really need something they have…I too prefer to handle an item I am purchasing…and to try it on…I despise making returns via mail, for whatever reason.
I wonder about the saturation and the China trade status of 30 years or so ago…
And decluttering…that is also an age related task as one gets older…making room in closets etc and getting rid of stuff one does not need.
AG, Columbia products are loaded to the hilt with PFAS forever chemicals..
About decluttering…
“An be not conformed to this world : but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that you may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God.”
Rom 12:2
Based.
In God We Trust
Trust God
Fear not
I just look around at all of the new and being built storage facilities. Get rid of your stuff, folks! Give it to the “resale” stores for those who can’t afford to buy new. Why oh why are there so many storage facilities!?
Because of all the multi unit cheap clap trap housing being built with ZERO storage…..This is the suburban blight on the land….spit
Cheaply made is a problem with actual stores. Went to Kohl’s (a while back), you can just tell it is dying. The crap they are trying to sell for the price they want is ridiculous. Have no desire to go back there. 🙄
I have been so disgusted with the blatant lack of quality of all types of shoes in the past 10 + years. They aren’t made well and I have no idea what they are made of either. Just my $2.00.
American food for America.
Make Food Great Again.
MFGA !!!!
So, avocados grown in California will be cheaper than avocados grown in Mexico?
AFTER the reset, yes.
And, bear in mind Sundance used to say, when explaining these MAGA econ 101 principles, that this exfitration of wealth applied equally to “lemons or widgets”; we are all focused on food prices of coarse, but this same principle applies to small appliances, etc.
Good, because they are currently around $2.50 each here in upstate NY.
If President Trump can keep the water on in California, the lost farms in the San Joaquin Valley can produce an abundance of produce,nuts, just about anything.
The smelt fish fiasco of the last 40 years has really crippled farm production in the valley.
They will be cheaper since President Trump turned the water back on.
They will have to replant first.
Do you remember seeing all of the trees being bulldozed after California cut off the water to save the delta smalt?
I hope Trump protects the ranchers. I eat only meat.
The crop farmers are going to be mad when RFK Jr puts out the new food pyramid and wheat, barley, potatoes, corn, and soybeans are kicked to the curb.
You’d be amazed at what a small percentage the beef producer gets of the finished product if sold at the livestock markets.
I experience it first hand and it sucks.
I watched a cattle sale once and I was utterly astonished at how low the prices were. I don’t how the full meat production pipeline works, but it was crystal clear to me then that wherever the profits were going, it wasn’t to those raising the cattle. Something is very wrong there.
Middle men at lots of levels…
Corporate control and monopoly of feedlots and slaughter houses. A small farmer/rancher can’t get in. Forced to sell at controlled prices benefiting the monopolies. I would love to see Monsanto and Cargill shattered into a million small farmer’s profit and control.
Every little town had a “locker plant” where you could carry your animal for butchering or you could buy fresh meat from the butcher.
Government regulation put them out of business. You cannot buy a piece of meat that has not been USDA inspected which is another fraud perpetrated upon the public.
producer of the cow gets $ – then feedlot gets $ – the Processor gets $$ – then Distributor gets $ and Retailers gets $. see who gets the most? yes and that is true of the whole food chain, the most $$ is taken out by the wrong people.
Come from apple country in Washington State. I learned the same applies to the growers there. A cousin told me after he retired, the biggest mistake he made was passing up the chance to sell direct to consumer.
Fasten your seat belts and ENJOY THE RIDE !!!!
Guess I’ll stock up on tequila tomorrow.
Arizona has Agave! They grow like
weeds!
We have a few small distilleries…
maybe this will be a new business
opportunity for people!
Seems emphasis in Az has been wineries.
🍸 🍸 🥂
Liberals love sipping their white whine spritzers….
What I want to know, is where are we going to grow our Guns N Roses?
The economy of the new Golden Age is a target rich environment!
And that’s why they want a CBDC/Digital ID.
Speculation is one of the biggest risks to business in general.
Control who can buy what and how much, you take the speculation out of it.
“You will own nothing and love it.”
Check out this IDIOTIC elected official from Canada!
Ontario’s Premier Threatens to Cut Off Electricity to U.S. — Says Republicans Will ‘Feel Pain Like They’ve Never Felt Before’ (VIDEO)
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/03/ontarios-premier-threatens-cut-electricity-u-s-says/
Seriously, go ahead and cut off your nose to spite your face.
Who else is going to pay you for that electricity?
Our canadian politicians are an embarrassment here and on the global stage. God bless your president and his fierce team♡♡♡
Canada is Europe. Canada operates identical Socialist systems of education, pensions, and healthcare. They are broke, and support war to get rich again.
The djia dropped like 650, been dropping, im getting killed in market, been rocky 30 days
Forget the price of eggs
This is the whole chicken
This was expected but not baked in yet.
Everything is spooking the market right now. Wall
Street has no spines right now since they’re so aligned with global markets.
If you remember what happened during PDJT’s first term, and try to hang in, you probably will more than make up for the short term drop right now..not a financial advisor..
There has been a huge increase in price per share of the common stock of Con Ed…in spite of the dropping market…up twenty dollars a share in the last maybe year or so…prepositioning for AI?
I recently purchased a whole chicken to make soup.
It was a vegetarian fed chicken, free range supported,
no crazy vaccines, etc. In other words a healthy chicken
raised on a small farm, not a huge production farm facility
$13.00.
Would I like it to cost less? Sure.
But, a healthy chicken soup sure tasted better mentally LOL.
And I make it a point to support the small farms.
If one is worried about the daily or even monthly moves of a market, then one should severely limit one’s exposure to said market.
Good rule of thumb is,
Bulls make money…
Bears make money…
And hogs get slaughtered.
Girl, if ur getting killed, consider it a learning experience.
In God We Trust
Trust God
Fear not
Good thing about living in FL, is there’s always an “investment” choice should one have the ‘disposable’ income to entertain such choices…
If stocks are too risky, we have casinos…
If casinos are too risky, we have the lotto…
And if the lotto is too risky…
You can always write {sell} hurricane insurance policies…
God Bless America
In God We Trust
Trust God
Fear not
It will rebound…give it a couple months.
I’m excited to get back to Grown in the USA foods. Had enough of the Mexico variety and their questionable practices..
yes!
can barely stand the produce section of the grocery store anymore.
mexico, peru, chile, guatamala, honduras, kazakhstan (not kidding – displaced california apricots on the shelves), etc. etc. etc. ad nauseum.
our USA blueberries, cherries, honeydews, mandarins, avocados, ALL OF IT, are better, and closer.
texas, california, maine, michigan, florida, heck lots of states have huge agricultural potential that has been slowly strangled by inferior imports,
or, as a poster below points out, put out of production courtesy of bill gates.
(no more government subsidies for unnecessarily fallow fields, please.)
looking forward to Making Agriculture Great Again!😁
I can quite literally pick peaches, plums, guavas, and bananas from my deck. I have an entire fruit forest of over 58 varieties of fruit and nuts, and I swap with my neighbors for meat and fish. Its a great retirement plan for anyone.
it’s terrific that you are in a climate that can support such bounty!
i’m in zone 4 so pretty dependent on store bought produce.
and a lot of people don’t have the land/garden to enjoy the successful system you’ve built.
however, when i saw this week that the cucumbers were from canada (!),
i’ll be seriously looking into patio gardening this spring.🙂
Go for it! I love my veg garden! Cuts down on the cost of dog food too! My woofs love to snack on pumpkin and sweet potato
Try this
That sounds great! Bananas?? Just wow! Too cold for that where I live.😊
Try Raja Puri banana. Its comfortable down to zone 7
I live in apple country here in California, but it is great to grow anything in this climate. I think apple trees are able to grow just about anywhere though, depending on the variety. One tree can produce more than enough for a whole family and your neighbors.
California Oranges in Florida is depressing.. I have been working on winterizing Mexican/Guatemalan/ Haas hybrid avocados from seed to grow in Florida. I have also been working on growing Robusto coffee plants under oak trees because it is too hot and cold for the plants otherwise.
I grow cara cara oranges, tangerines, lemons, limes, kumquats, and avocado
I purchase blueberries, raspberries, strawberries and peaches each year from a small farm in Michigan.
Freeze it for the year.
Let’s see, how can I put this diplomatically & with some thoughtful consideration for our neighboring countries who will be impacted by these actions…
Oh yeah, FAFO!
Sleep well Canexicans/Mexadians 😴
Eradicate Snow Mexicans!!!! Good ridance. Good luck when you are starving because Trudope put tariffs on American food
Electric grid war by AI Grid.
In Electric Grid War, tensions between Canada and the United States escalate as both nations vie for control over the North American electrical grid.
After a series of cyberattacks cripple major power grids on both sides of the border, each country blames the other for the sabotage.
As energy resources dwindle, the governments push forward with covert operations to secure critical infrastructure, leading to a high-stakes war of espionage and sabotage.
With the fate of millions of citizens hanging in the balance, both countries navigate political alliances, technological warfare, and the looming threat of a total blackout that could cripple the continent.
Living iff the grid becomes a way of life for millions.
Cellphones are useless momentoes of technology.
We survive.
Doooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooommmmmmmmmmm.
The only way to win, is to not be stupid.
😎
Debbi Downer?
Not at all. If you love stress free living unburdened by debt, then creating an almost free situation for yourself is awesome, and you learn new skills!
That’s funny.
However, anything Canada thinks to do against the US is just a small mosquito bite.
Bill Gates bought up a ton of farmland to intentionally prevent farming .
That’s wonderful because now we only have to deal with one owner to reclaim it all. Much simpler this way.
Did Bill Gates break any laws which would make him subject to having all his assets seized? Interesting how so many of these wealthy people got divorced right around the same time, wasn’t it?
Are you referring to sex trafficking or sex with minors?
We all friends in the clerb! Enjoy the tariffs – lmao
Tariffs are now live. Just poured myself a whiskey, Cheers! 🥃
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1L6eqIE_Rx6TRMQXFAS6V0HR-BMmDKFNj4u-CMCrkEeA/edit?tab=t.0
I’d missed that the Marshal Plan is officially ending on April 2.
Glad it’s not April 1, too many would assume it was an April Fools joke.
I’m sure there will be some product which goes up in price that the Fake News can make a big deal out of.
It’s the day tariffs begin on Europe.
From the Oval Office, President Trump actually joked about April Fools Day when discussing/signing the start of tariffs on Europe. He said they were scheduled to begin April 1st, but I’m a little superstitious so we changed it to April 2nd.
Canadian op-ed….
EDITORIAL: Tariff war? Thank the Liberals
https://torontosun.com/opinion/editorials/editorial-tariff-war-thank-the-liberals
Oh, Canada!
—-
Paul Mitchell
@PaulMitchell_AB
Has somebody told nincompoop Dougie Ford that it’s winter and the natural gas coming into Ontario and Quebec (which originates in Alberta) is routed through the United States and they can shut that off if buffoon Ford follows-up on his threat?
Team Clown World strikes again. 🤡
Cont reading thread…
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1896754798697046260.html
Brian Lilley
@brianlilley
Lots of emotional responses to Trump’s tariffs, let’s just not react emotionally because it will be bad for the country.
I’ll use cutting off oil and gas exports as an example of why this is a bad idea.
Video linked…
Doug Ford talks tough as Trump’s tariffs set to begin Tuesday
https://www.rebelnews.com/doug_ford_talks_tough_as_trumps_tariffs_set_to_begin_tuesday
Rupa Subramanya
@rupasubramanya
Remember that a tit for tat tariff will hurt Canada more compared to no retaliation with almost zero impact on the Americans according to modelling estimates by economists. But no politician in Canada has the courage to make that case to the public. They’d rather play politics.
-SNIP-
When I spoke to
@trevortombe a few weeks ago, this is what he told me.
“If Canada retaliates with 25% across the board, consumer prices on average would rise by about 3.5% to 4% in Canada. Canada’s tariff impact on the US economy would be almost zero.”
Cont reading thread…
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1896657718888529942.html
All production that can be local, should be local, not just in America but everywhere. Societies everywhere need to be resilient and less vulnerable to foreign intervention so that they are better able to chart their own destinies in accordance with the will of the their own peoples. Localism is the only thing that can lead to political and social stability and consequent sustainable economic development.
Yes, many will mistakes, and it’s on them to make course corrections. Whatever mistakes foreigners make in their own societies, whatever mistakes we make in ours, progressive clown trash in Washington DC and New York City, and their corporate-‘conservative’ cheerleaders, do not have better solutions. They have had 50 years of uniparty rule to show that they could, and they have made a corrupt ruin of our country and harmed a good portion of the rest of the world and wrecked what use to be our good name.
You are absolutely correct in your comments about local farm production.
We will not solve our food problems until we return to small local farms and local food processing.
And on the economics, the number from years back was that every farm dollar added two dollars to your local economy.
We need to “Ma Bell” the five big meat packers, ADM and the big milk so called co-ops for starters.
About that picture of the farmers all over the Case tractor:
I know a lot of families, and I’ve seen a lot of family photographs, that look just like that.
And I’ve met a lot of people, of all ages, in a lot of different places, under a lot of different circumstances, that look just like the people in that picture.
All of those people that I’m talking about, well, they are ones who are the backbone of this great country. And I’m gosh darn happy Trump is looking out for them. Darn happy.
Thank you Lord.
Tariff money should go to the External Revenue Service, so we can easily see what can be reduced from the Internal Revenue Service tax burden on citizens.
All tariff money should go to pay off debt.
Daniel Baldwin
@baldwin_daniel_
Trump has secured:
– $100 billion from TSMC;
– $500 billion from Apple;
– $27 billion from Zepbound;
– $100 billion from Softbank;
– $20 billion from DAMAC;
– $500 billion from Stargate;
– $600 billion from Saudi Arabia.
Sounds like a domestic manufacturing renaissance to me!
10:56 AM · Mar 3, 2025
Daniel looks like he is 17 years old.
“The Fordney-McCumber Tariff gave Presidents Warren Harding and Calvin Coolidge the revenue to offset the slashing of Wilson’s income taxes, igniting that most dynamic of decades — the Roaring ’20s.”
Tariffs: The Taxes That Made America Great
https://buchanan.org/blog/tariffs-the-taxes-that-made-america-great-136986
I may have to go buy my Big Green Egg back now that meat prices might come back down to reality in the foreseeable future.
I traded it to my buddy for a backup AR and some ammo cans full of Lake City 5.56 just before the Election.
Can we at least identify what “food” is being generated by THIS guy, so we can avoid it?
The big boon for Bill Gates, America’s premier owner of farmland.
https://landreport.com/farmer-bill-gates
Amen, woo.
Cutting electricity exports to the US is Canada’s trump card. Doing so will cause New England, NY & other states to squirm.
It will also delay closures of fossil fuel fired generators. That is a beneficial outcome.
And it could kill some New England/NY libs as well. A bonus.
An OT factor: The food chain is artificially impacted by damned ethanol subsidies; a normal chain can’t happen until farmers return to growing corn for food.
Amen.
An artificial and contrived situation which would not exist without political pandering and government regulations and subsidies.
Top supporter of that nasty practice is set to be composted soon.
We’ll see what happens.
Lack of water will solve that problem in the future.
The question is whether or not the idiots will run us completely out of water before the change occurs.
President Trump’s administration needs to get a hold of the EPA
and whatever other organizations are doing damage to our food production.
In approximately 2008, California shut off the central valley farmers water.
I noticed that a short time thereafter avocados, along with other fresh fruit
and vegetables, were incoming from Mexico. These farmers were there for decades.
Farms and families went bankrupt.
Also, food production plants are experiencing catastrophic events all
over the country. Obviously sabotage for the most part.
And the bird flu so called epidemic has our government killing millions
of chickens – no chickens, no eggs.
This needs to stop.
I am not very worried personally. The only food I see from Canada is hot house tomatoes. I do see a lot of their products from toothpaste to ink pens in the Dollar Tree stores. The Dollar Tree already has prices over a dollar for quite a while now. Mexico imports a bit more but almost nothing I use. If anything car prices are the most likely to increase, as Canada assembles a lot of cars and Mexico makes a lot of auto parts. But Asian imports from Japan and Korea can easily take up that slack. Ontario’s Premier Threatens to Cut Off Electricity to U.S. but that will mostly effect the west and west coast. It will also decimate Ontario’s government and electrical industry. If he goes through with cutting of electricity to the US it will be seen as the most stupid move in Canadian history.
Thank you, Sundance. This was a master class in MAGAnomics and written clearly enough that we can all get it, and articulate it to those that think Trump is “crazy.”
I highly recommend reading the book, The Creature From Jekyll Island, on the creation of Fed in 1913 and what its intentions have been from the start – It’s truly eye-opening.
It’ll provide you with some insight into the battle ahead – the entrenched forces our President is fighting against, and the headwinds he will face – from the rent-a-mob, astroturfed protesters, to the bought and paid for politicians, to the wholly-owned MSM, to the multinational corporations pulling their strings, to the financial institutions behind them all.
This isn’t a fever dream – it is the outgrowth of a system devised over a century ago to enable a select few to basically control the world. And it’s been working, to an extent, though, as with all things made by man, the corruption associated with the evil of the 7 Deadly Sins has become ever more pervasive.
This is what PDJT is fighting. And there can only be one reason – because he sees it, because he’s in a position to do something, because he’s a good man, and because he truly loves this country (yes, yes, that’s all actually one thing).
He’s put himself into the breech, suffered the slings and arrows of lawfare and bullets, and continues to fight the leviathan. He doesn’t do it for himself. He does it for the country and for us. And that’s why I’ve been getting so incensed by the casual use of terms like crazy, felon, narcissist, etc. by the media and people I interface with daily. Those epithets are bandied about by the blind who do not want to bother to open their eyes, and created by the forces of evil that have everything to lose. That is what President Trump is fighting and what we need to fight as well…
Thanks Sundance. Great article.
Warren Buffett calles tariffs “An Act of War.”
But – when considering, drug trafficing, sex trafficing, destroying American cities, neighborhoods, and most importantly families, so that that the mansions outside the bloated DC blob can get ever bigger – well that’s just hunky dunky.
These uncaring reprobates sicken me.
The Communists finally found a war they didn’t like, so at least there’s that. Small favors.
Well, he’s right. But the war has not been ours. We have allowed other countries to tax us. Lets call the tariffs a tax which is what they are and we have done nothing about it. There has been a war declared on us through imports and exports and now we are fighting back.
Fundamentally, “tariffs” have always been around. We have been paying them for decades – thanks in part to the Marshall Plan which should have ended by 1950. But, we haven’t been collecting them.
Another, perhaps friendlier word for them is: “import tax.” It is designed to protect domestic industry from “dumping,” as well as being a revenue source. Most of the countries of this world have been using them very routinely – specifically, “except U.S.” Almost everything that we export has been subject to tariffs (which we now pay), and almost nothing that we import. “All taking and no giving.”
The notion of “reciprocal” means exactly that: we will tax you exactly as much as you tax us, thus canceling-out the advantage you have been taking.
Very nervous about this SecAg Brooke Rollins as a shill for Big Ag.
Canadian here.
One unfortunate outcome of these actions is that the Liberal party has soared in the opinion polls, as a wave of Trump Derangement Syndrome has swept across the country creating a kind of “rally around the flag” effect combined with the typical Canadian distaste for anything remotely conservative. We had been looking at a decisive Conservative election win this year and now the polls are almost back to a dead heat.
Words fail me in attempting to express just how shallow and ignorant Canadians have become. The Liberal party is getting a new leader, so there’s the shiny new thing. Trump is the object of the Two Minutes Hate. Anti-Americanism has always been here, sometimes quiet, sometimes louder. It’s at a crescendo now. The Conservatives are getting tarred by the proles as “too MAGA, too Trumpy!” and there seems to be nothing the Conservatives can say or do about it – it’s a “When did you stop beating your wife?” trap (not that it matters too much; the Conservative leader has been revealing himself as rather poll-driven and not terribly principled; our Conservatives are awfully prone to becoming CINO, or Liberal Lite).
Weep not for us. Frankly, we need to feel this pain. We need to be slapped down. We’ve long behaved with undeserved smugness; we were born on third base, and we think we hit a triple. We can’t even articulate who & what we are as a people, only that we’re “not Americans!” It’s probably long past time that America shows us what being “not Americans” truly means.
Yes it is a long over due wake up call. We can thank Trump for that. Mark Carney is only a slightly smarter guy than Trudeau so I still have faith in intelligent Canadians electing a majority Conservative government.
I have no faith in Canadians as a whole, I consider myself an Albertan. I am actually enjoying all the freaking out going on up here. It’s nice to see the rest of the country experience what it feels like to be shat upon.
I appreciate what you are saying but I think Canada will come around in due time.
I also think your Little Castro has made some secret deal with China that will get exposed and will astound and awaken many.
You might also take a map and point out that Canada is part of North America therefore they are Americans whether they like it or not.
I’ve been awaiting signs that Canada will “come around” for 20+ years. I thought maybe when we had a Conservative majority government at the 2011 election we were starting the process, but that government fell into ‘caretaker’ mode fairly quickly and then got ejected once shiny Trudeau came onto the scene. The closest I’ve seen is the trucker convoy, but even that met with significant public disapproval, and a harsh government crackdown on it that the plebes mostly applauded.
Even if you look at the province of Alberta, considered the most right-wing of the provinces, you’ll still find a populace and governing systems that are not ready nor willing to rock the boat. They’ve been suffering abuses from central Canada for 40+ years and they can’t find the political will to take even a baby step toward asserting more autonomy like create their own provincial police force; they still contract police service from the federally controlled RCMP. They elect insufferable leftist nitwit mayors to their major cities (seriously, go look at the mayor of Calgary). They yammer and yammer but don’t DO anything of consequence.
We are a poster child for “good times create weak men.”
How long can Canada and Mexico last with these tariffs?
Trudeau just added a 25% retaliatory tariff in his last few weeks in office. Talk about doubling-down on stupid! Trump will just tack on additional tariffs. We have Vermont for the maple syrup. I feel bad for Canadians but they need to vote out the Liberals and vote in the Conservatives or they won’t have a country much longer.
https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/114105388432604284
SD noted above: “It may take a little time for the reset of pricing to travel to new fields and then ultimately to our forks, but it will happen if the USA holds strong in support of the rebalancing.“
Let’s hope not too long. You just know Big Ag and the media are going to do a full court press hammering the prices to influence the midterm elections.
Nix the Fix
**2026**
We just cut off the principle spigot for election fraud, we are tearing the system down to the foundations and tracing the wires, MAGA will not cease digging up the schemes and burying the criminals, they are reeling from the hits and the hits will not stop coming, we will not relent.
’26 will be the most Mandate affirming and expanding mid-term in American history.
I hope you are correct about the election. I was thinking the full court press on prices would be what they use to justify the results of their planned election steal.
If you plan on buying a new car, do your homework. Some dealers will slap a tariff increase on a 2025 made in Mexico even though it was built and shipped already. I.e., Ford stocked up on its 2025 ‘made in Mexico’ vehicles in anticipation of the tariff. 😉
There is a lot I could say about fresh produce and meat but without getting into the weeds I will just say this.
Government regulation has killed the market for fresh meat and produce so the big boys could profit. Milk, meat, produce and all fresh food has been regulated to put the small produces out of business.
When I was a kid, we could pick a crop before daylight, send it to market and someone in Dallas (100 miles) could have it for lunch that day. That don’t happen anymore.
I think this is way too simplistic. It shows some misunderstanding of the food supply chain. I am no fan of Big Ag but used to play in that industry when I was not retired. Much of the problem with food is in the way Washington regulates and subsidizes the entire food system. For example, in meatpacking, a couple of companies dominate why? It’s impossible to get a slaughterhouse built due to all the regulators. So, instead of competition, there are bottlenecks. Joel Salatin’s books on this are great primers. Kennedy wants Coca Cola to use sugar instead of sugar beets for sweetener. Tell that to the Miami cartel who has paid politicians to put protectionist measures in place on sugar.
In addition, sure, we can produce a lot of stuff. Our farmers are the most efficient and best in the entire world. French farmers are also pretty darn good by the way. But, should that land be used for farms? Factories? Housing? What’s the most efficient use of it? Is it better to outsource some of it? What should be outsourced? We grow a lot of cotton in the cotton belt but should we be doing that or something else?