White House deputy chief of staff for policy Stephen Miller appears on Fox News to discuss the importance of the tariff policy and reestablishing American industry via the global trade reset.
Miller outlines the U.S market reaction to President Donald Trump’s tariffs and China’s 34% countervailing tariff response on U.S. products. As Miller notes, the tariff program is simply one part within the rebalancing of trade to protect American industry. WATCH (prompted):
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Do you want to see what the Globalists have planned for America if we do not back President Donald J Trump? Just look to the EU and some of those videos I have posted about Ireland. Our real external enemies are the EU/WEF/UN/NATO/London not Russia.
“The most perilous aspect [of free trade] … is the loss of U.S. sovereignty and the potential loss of nationhood itself. Look at Europe. Nations there are meekly transferring control of their defense and foreign policy, of trade and immigration policy, to a superstate called the European Union; they are even giving up control of their currencies, which means control of their destinies. And what is happening to France, Britain, Germany, Italy, will happen here if we do not wake up. Once a nation has put its foot onto the slippery slope of global free trade, the process is inexorable, the end inevitable: death of the nation-state.” Pat Buchanan
Tariffs and the Founding Fathers
https://thenewamerican.com/print/tariffs-and-the-founding-fathers/
The real EU-London Muslim invasion of Ireland.
https://x.com/Mick_O_Keeffe/status/1878819365929291959
Thank God Trump is dealing with ours!
What’s so very interesting (& disturbing) are the Cops… they are Irish & most born/raised/work there. While doing their *job*, they could easily ignore the rules and side with the people. We see cops ignore situations every day for sure, i.e., blm riots!
Ignore the BLM riots? Hell the FBI took a knee to BLM!!! To me that’s unforgivable, all who took a knee should be fired!!! Period!!! My guess is the Democrats are planning another “Summer of Love Riots” to show their support for President Trump!/s
oh no doubt
and it will be worse than ever
because they are in terrified mode
I wonder if Antifa rioter pay has increased?
I also wonder if their stupid asses will go to jail THIS time
“I wonder if Antifa rioter pay has increased?”
I understand Uncle Elon has made slight adjustments to their pay rates…………..
Democrats aren’t no ways terrified. They have PLENTY of money & mindless evil indoctrinated souls to launch war. The DNC announced it was forming a shadow government this weekend. Does that mean Obama abandoned his? Sorry, you may think they’re clueless & scared. I do not.
Since that is basically an insurrection we the people should treat it as such regardless of what Congress or the DOJ does.
At least they should get the water cannons. When they light their fires, oops my bad, aim could be better, bye bye.
Why not use those LRAD machines that emit an unbearable noise AND water cannons?
Serbian military used them 2 weeks ago and the crowds just fled
They should dispatch them as the domestic terrorist force they are.
No quarter no prisoners
Great idea! Go back through the videos & photos, ID the kneelers then TERMINATE their employment and cancel their security clearance.
Amen and Amen! Director Patel just do it!!!
‘Law enforcement’ is the street face of the ‘government’ they work for.
I have watched wiith heart sinking many of Mr O’Keeffe’s videos. I can hardly take in what I am seeing. Same in Blighty.
It is horrible, Colkitto, to watch the Garda linking arms against their own countrymen. And it put me in mind of Robert Browning’s illustrative book “Ordinary Men” in which he explains how it came to be that the Nazis were able to coopt so many citizens to carry out their orders against their own people.
I think this is what we are witnessing in the extreme in Ireland, Britain, and the whole of Europe with notable exceptions (Hungary, Slovakia…the merciful break in a totalitarian wall).
I’ve no doubt we were headed in that direction at speed, hard (or even impossible) as it is for most to admit that was the fate intended for us. Memories are short.
But for God’s merciful intervention with and for Donald Trump (July 13, 2024), there go we…
This is a remarkable hour long interview with Robert Browning. Worthy of the time I hope many will give to it so we can understand just how close to the precipice we were and are only now pulling back from.
Out of the Dark and into the Light 🙏🏻
Apologies…
Christopher Browning.
Shame on me…
I read the Browning book Betsy, when working on my History Master’s. What a study in psychology, the power of group influence. and normalizing horror. Amazing how if you demonized a group effectively enough, anything can happen.
July 13, 2024. How grateful I continue to be.
A study not just about those of whom he writes, Unicorn, or the times.
Human nature which has not changed as long as man has existed. Everything he wrote and spoke of is happening throughout the Western world., beginning with the Covid years and carrying on through the demographic reconfigurations in Britain, Ireland, and continental Europe.
And dare I say here as well?
Though to an as yet slightly lesser extent, I do.
Pesident Trump is standing on the front lines attemtpting to reverse.
Grateful, yes. Immeasurably so.
Betsy,
What will it take for the US of A to rise up against the muslim invasion and eliminate them all from our borders. It is an invasion of the most horrible kind…. Their ‘book’ calls for the elimination of all of us. Will Christianity prevail? GOD help us all.
Mike
I’ve no idea, Mike…
The Texas Republican House just celebrated “Pakistan Day” for pity’s sake!
We’ve got Sharia cities being built in Irving and Plano. Only when Texans discovered this and a hue and cry arose did we hear beans from Abbott who surely knew.
We’ve got a Muslim federal judge. What did he take his oath on?? the Bible?
We know the answer.
In his 2006 book America Alone Mark Steyn recounted that after 9/11, the Muslims figured out that they would be.more successsful in establishing a caliphate in the US by stealth, through our institutions. And they have done this.
And we know there are Muslims operating in every department and agency in DC, as well as in the WH when the squatter Biden lived there.
Their first obedience is to Islam, not this country.
I’ve actually given this issue a lot of thought.
Alas….
It is horrifying. It causes me to remember once again how courageous President Trump has been to speak up and lead. If not for him, we would be the UK.
Yet, walk thru Walmart, MsWords, and tell me how many people before you have ANY IDEA what we are speaking about. Close to none, if not zero.
I watched in horror as the “tards” dutifully raced forward to take their covid shot(s) while hysterically berating me for refusing the same. THAT was crazy. And a bit scarey, only because it was so wrong, yet so many were unable to comprehend the same. And mention to these peeps what is happening in Europe? Might as well try explaining why the sun rises each morning. Only a hanful would understand.
So, yes! We are fighting an uphill battle, for sure. But I also believe, the Good Lord is with us, and protecting our “warrior,” Donald R Trump. So, stay strong. And march on…
According to FOX this am, Musk wants to make it easier for people from Europe to emigrate to the US. This sounds like a bad idea as the Marxists will leap at the chance to springboard their Islamists into the US. We already have enough problems with infiltration by people who aspire to Sharia Law cities. I hope President Trump doesn’t listen to Musk. We will already have a growing problem on our southern border as apparently the president of Mexico has offered to take on Palestinians leaving Gaza.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/musk-says-he-hopes-zero-tariffs-freedom-trade-zone-between-us-europe
There is also Fredrik Hayek book “The road to serfdom” written in 1944 and detailing how Germany went stark raving mad. Once you make a group “The Other” and less than human, the result is inevitable. It is not madness, it is rather cold logic that starts from a faulty premise and leads to death camps.
And that is what they are doing to us. This was already done in numerous Democrat orchestrated race riots of the 60’s and the targeting of white Republican people and businesses. I’m lucky my family got out alive, though the business that I would have inherited was destroyed. They were murdering white business owners up and down the st from my pop.
A small sample of Rhodesia, South Africa, Congo, Angola etc right here in America
Always consider that it will be police that put you and yours on the trains to the re-education camps.
Interesting. Humans can justify most anything.
I couldn’t help thinking of the quran and islam that advocate killing Jews and infidels, dehumanizing them by calling them monkeys and pigs.
Don’t forget women, whom they consider to be animals for their own use.
“How to Solve the Immigration Crisis”
https://www.theamericanconservative.com/how-to-solve-the-immigration-crisis/
Essentially it boils down to this, T.
Congress COULD do this.
Congress COULD do that.
Congress MIGHT do the other.
And finally Congress SHOULD…
Yes, indeed, all of the above.
But as President Trump fights this battle all by his lonesome on our behalf, Congress won’t. Standing or sitting mute, watching the hideous deluge of murders and rapes perpetrated by barbaric creatures who were invited in. Nothing from them while this was happening either. Leaving President Trump to fight disreputable, corrupt, politicized courts which constitutionally have no say.
The Republicans in control of both the House and Senate sit on their hands.
By their actions or lack thereof, and through their consent through silence we know them.
Dishonourable slackers whose hands are as bloody as those of the illegal invaders which have done their absolute worst to so many.
Nuff said.
Horrendous.
The UK is a Blatant example of what happens when a nation’s people don’t have the equivalent of First and Second Amendment right.
Government becomes tyrannical at will; the citizens be damned. Only the very wealthy can buy their freedom to live securely without government interference.
Ty for stopping by friend GB. Cheers sir!
😎 👍
Your initial comment speaks for and to us all, Colkitto.
The very best to you!
The UK is a Blatant example of what happens when a nation’s people don’t have the equivalent of First and Second Amendment right.
The UK is exactly why we do have the First and Second amendments.
Well done, sir!
A 250 year flashback to see that nothing has really changed over there. The Brit ruling class are nothing but tyrannical bullies and have been for 500+ years. All that politeness and decorum are just cover…
The crown heads of Europe of 500, 600 years ago, are up runningaround the cemetery.
Dear God, that looks like what the Nazis did to the Jews. This is evil. Why? Why is Europe doing this suicide mission?
This is what happens when you abandon Jesus Christ.
Something else becomes your god and that false god always points towards Hell.
Europe has been a nearly 2,000 year-long suicide mission. War and tyranny are its historical legacy. It may ebb for a time, but mostly the madness flows unceasingly. What we are seeing over there now is the reason we exist as a nation. We should have no further ties with those people other than straight-up trade. We should have abandoned NATO and the UN years ago. At this point, we should recall our ambassadors and even close our embassies in any European country that does not respect the basic rights of mankind.
When Trump unleashes hell on Big Pharma, you will find many more becoming MAGA.
I am sick of the anti American sneering from Europeans. They talk about us like we’re trash! I can’t wait for their “free” everything to vanish!
Once the Liberal-Marxist World Order subsidized by the American taxpayers ends, perhaps the good enslaved European people will have their blinders removed as the money ends. They have big problems with the imports, they should really take care of the traitors first and destroy the Liberal illusionary ideology. Than re-migrate them.
since the e.u. trash talks us in farsi, it’s difficult to understand the message
two words we need to worry about, alu akbar.
aloha snackbar!
indeed
My spelling may be off but I’ll call a spade a spade, LOL….but first in treasured southern tradition, I will “Bless their heart”…and wish them well over there…
Admiral Akbar… because “It’s [Islamic Immigration] a Trap!!!l
A long time ago… in a galaxy far far away…
Trade Wars!
Their Oh-So-Sophisticated Snobby Noses in the air…
Turnabout is fair play!
You know the globalist cabal (EU) and maybe every country on the tariff list are thinking this will not last longer then 4 years. What can we do to show them MAGA is permanent and to plan their affairs accordingly? Oh I know…Secure Our Elections and start locking up the domestic traitors.
The people are on board, this is what we will always vote for. We do not need convincing. We do not doubt Trumps MAGA agenda. Un-manipulated national elections will and should always reflect this. However it does appear the administration is expending a lot of effort trying to convince the MSM (domestic traitors) a.k.a. Enemy of the People.
They know the election fraud system is still in place.
Whose fault is that?
It is 100% the fault of the ConInc GOPe Controlled Opposition that too much of MAGA, for reasons of desperation, continue to support and amplify.
ConInc. Case In Point:
They know the election fraud system is still in place….
DeSantis rescinds Snipes suspension over her illegal election interference in Broward County.
https://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/community/broward/article224763030.html#storylink=cpy
“We’re going to move beyond this controversy. I think the important thing is not to throw mud about what happened in the past but let’s get on a better footing and make sure this doesn’t happen again in Broward County,” –Desanctimonius
DeSantis, GOPe and ConInc love to “Move On”
Now that “we” are supposedly in charge, they will spend more time fighting the grassroots than investigating the open frauds perpetrated by Democrats.
Remember that time DeSantis let Democrat, Broward County SOE Brenda Snipes go after she admitted in court to destroying 50,000 paper ballots instead of letting a Democratic Primary Candidate investigate them in his 2016 stolen race?
That should had been your clue that we are dealing with a UniParty in Florida.
The RPOF/GOP is more worried about WE THE PEOPLE than the Democrats because their all on the same team AGAINST YOU.
Desantis is an iconic example of Illusion of Choice
Vote Smarter and then Harder.
The Uniparty Republicans in Florida are trying their best to eliminate the ability to audit elections results and have done nothing to get rid of the voting machines of mail in ballot fraud.
…..Two Florida House Bills are currently being pushed through. If passed, combined they will remake everything in Florida elections. Evaluated separately, they will make you scratch your head, but together it should make you fall our of your chair.
Thanks to many of the folks reading this, FL Senator Ingoglia’s SB1414 has been quietly set aside, but now the equally bad House version, HB1381 is being pushed through.
Much like Ingoglia’s attempt, this House Bill would also reclassify many of the reports election integrity advocated NEED to monitor and audit election as protected items. Essentially removing all of what remains for citizens to audit their elections. We are already severely limited to what we can observe. Most of what REALLY happens in our elections is hidden in the boxes of paper ballots we cannot review and the black box software we are told to trust.
And just like SB 1414, HB 1381 will replace the “Post Election Audit” with yet another election vendor who will claim that the digital reproduction they present was the real election, since that will be used to certify the elections.
And much like Georgia and Arizona, we will be in a DIGITAL HELL where we can never prove that digital production was falsified because we will NEVER get to reconcile it against the boxed up paper ballots.
https://krisjurski.substack.com/p/you-cant-spell-rico-wo-the-letter
Jurski is an excellent boots on the ground eye witness and patriot out of Florida
The eyes of the installed globalist and anti-MAGA leaders around the world are watching and their strategic and long term foreign policy will reflect this.
From wars in Ukraine to tariffs and trade. Their decisions will be based on who will be in power in the next 2-4 years. They must know that MAGA policy is dead without Trump and the people who vote in support of it. imo. At least thats how I would be thinking if I were them.
Exactly. And who is in office, as Speaker of the State House, and Senate President controls what comes out of the State legislature, County Recorders and SoS’s control elections, AG’s and Judges block election challenges, and and of them are recruited and installed by the State Republican Party Executive Committees.
Your taking the ficus where it belongs, or at least in the right direction, as DeSantis/Snipes story is about STATE not National Republican Party.
“WHO’S fault is it?” that the Florida State Republicon party leadership are GOPe Bushies?
The people of FLORIDA, and nobody else.
There are 50 State Republican parties, and not one of them is MAGA Controlled, at the State Executive Committee level.
And, who’s fault is that?
OURS, the MAGA citisens of each State, that are STILL “too busy” to get involved in party politics, learn how the game is played, and oust the RINOS from power.
Is it easy? Hell no! The barstuds will lie, cheat, steal, change the rules and pull every dirty trick in the book to remain in in power.
Its not easy, or glamorous etc. but what it is, is NECCESARY!
WE can not achieve the election integrity NECCESARY to successfully primary out the RINOS in Congress, without gaining operational control over the State Republican Party Executive Committees.
We have no time to waste..
WTH?!!!!
Who got to him?
You are right on the money and this has been going on for decades like the steal of the 96 GOP Primaries from Buchanan article I showed you proves.
Go back farther, to ’64.
The GOPe conspired with the FBI, CIA and MSM to bug Goldwaters campaign plane, so they could listen in on his strategy sessions he had while in flight.
Using that info, they fed THE question to him, knowing his answer would set up “Daisy” the most effective campaign ad ever aired, and destroy his campaign.
Bill Moyers.
From the photos and videos available, the Hands Off protest looks to be well paid…I mean well attended…./s to give the world the impression that MAGA is not a thing, I guess….but rather well challenged.
In the clips I saw I noticed the signs were “hand made” instead of printed distributed messages… just a change of approach?
Canada will be your petrie dish if Carney gets in.
When I grow up I want to be just like Stephen Miller 😳🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
I am grown up and cannot be.😂
I know the material, but cannot articulate it with the speed and efficiency that he can.
That is why he is on TV for PDJT and I am not!
Happy to be where I am at. Everyone has strengths and weaknesses.
Romans 12:3 KJV
For I say, through the grace given unto me, to every man that is among you, not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think; but to think soberly, according as God hath dealt to every man the measure of faith.
Exactly I stand and cheer smile and pump my fist righteously and ok I confess I’m actually 76 years old 🙂
He is Tom Terrific
Yes, he doesn’t suffer fools. I think he’s brilliant!
While a student at Duke University, Stephen Miller stood up for the Duke Lacrosse players. He was bucking the corrupt railroading common for the ruling elite at Duke. He was articulate and brave then and continues today. I applaud Stephen Miller.
Raw Courage
Remember it like it was yesterday….I’ll never forgive Duke for that fiasco. Hope they lose in the final 4.
I think Stephen Miller would make a great President.
That makes two of us!!!!
That makes 300 million of us.
Yes I’m thrilled like there ARE 77 Million Americans standing behind him, I can’t describe the pride and awe
I am especially entertained when he says “insidious”.
Is it my imagination, or are he and Derek Jeter beginning to look alike as they age?
Well, they both have the ability to “hit it out of the park” – :):)
Sometimes he’s got a tiny twinkle ✨
We love this MAGA soldier for sure.
Miller reminds me of Andrew Breitbart. Completely uncompromising with the truth.
I have a SERIOUS crush on Miller..sigh…😍🙃
Diceanna me too it’s a huge sigh, I would have followed him out the door of my first year law school con law class
No, that can’t be! I continue to see comments, asserting that President Trunp still has a terrible pattern when it comes to picking staff, just like he had as 45!,…/S
Say, didn’t PDJT actually PICK Steven Miller in his first term?
And hey, during the hiatus between 45 and 47, didn’t Miller headline America First Legal, along with Pam Bondi, and bring many a righteous lawfare frim the alt-right against the bastids?
Hmm, do you suppose maybe those who post comnents disparaging PDJT’s choices, are as full of sh*t as a Christmas Goose, as my Dad used to say?
My understanding is that Pam isn’t connected with American First Legal . I’m a monthly donor since they formed and do larger gifts when they do big wins. Stephen is incredible.
Awww of Course! Unabashedly Right and Sticking it right between your eyeballs
Miller would make a wonderful President of this country. (If only he had the prerequisite full head of hair./s)
The Netflix movie 🎥 now streaming
“No. 24” is true story of young Norwegian 19 year old who formed their resistance (5 of 5 of 5).
I was dumbstruck for days after I watched it. No words, it should be required for all 8th – high school seniors
Meaning of Freedom
Best I’ve ever seen…..I’ve followed since the days he destroyed Chrystal Magum and the Duke 88.
Countervailing duty is levied (after a Commerce investigation) to offset government subsidies on imported goods.
I would call what President Trump is doing something like “we aren’t taking this shit anymore duties”.
Amen!
I posit that we’ve actually been in a recession for a while, what with the abject manipulation of government data each month during “Biden’s” Reign of Horrendous Error.
Each month’s figures revisited and adjusted downward without so much as a nod by media sycophants as to how off the base numbers were.
Love Mr Miller’s passion and confidence, something this nation has been woefully short of for the past four years. Enough of that!
Onward and upward!! 🇺🇸 👍🏻
I know very little about economics. But a couple of things I think I’ve learned are:
1) The Biden “jobs growth” was largely attributable to the invaders.
2) The recession was hidden by excess money printing that fueled government corrupt pet projects (our destruction).
I don’t know if either of these assumptions are true but if they are, the corrupt media sure didn’t let very many people know.
In other words, I agree with you. I think we have been in a hidden recession.
L W:
To your point #1, “jobs growth” was also accomplished through the hiring of millions of new federal government employees.
To the Labor department these jobs count the same as the private sector. I don’t think so…
Most of those jobs were people returning after the scamdemic!
I know next to nothing about economics as well. But I am a recruiter and the past 3 years the staggering amount of resumes I see with people who are unemployed told me that the BS employment numbers were made up. And/or foreign and gov’t workers.
Seems like a # of treepers who start off saying they know nothing of economics, are displaying pretty good knowledge of economics, actually.
After all, its not rocket science and is largely common sense.
Also, if you hang in the house, some of Sundance economic savvy rubs off, lol.
Right? I really have learned so much and hanging out on the limbs here I feel suddenly smart. I had lunch with my brother today and was able to really explain the tariff stuff…I even impressed the hubs 🙂
Share the CTH with them both. CTH needs to be on everyone’s agenda daily. Share it far and wide.
Truth Social is and has been flooded with quotes from the limbs like never before. Also seems that CTH has snuck in and infected many other sites as well. Pray fellow Treepers and keep up the great work! 😎😝
We learn more here from Sundance and other Treepers than from MSM lies and fudged government #s out in the world.
We’ve been thru a never-ending onslaught of fears, false reporting, made-up numbers and mind-boggling dereliction of financial responsibility of national politicians! They have deployed Cloward-Piven to their absolute maximum to destroy America. If we do not “neutralize” their ability to destroy us, they WILL try again!
Biden’s job growth was largely in part-time jobs … folks taking two or three part-time assignments to make ends meet. That, plus the migrants’ preferential employment status, plus the gynormous growth in government hires.
To your point #2, Wattie, if you can grasp that what ‘Event Covid’ was about (aside from a trial balloon/dress rehersal for global totalitarianism), on the finance/economics side of things, was in actual fact a *Gargantuan* stealth bailout of the financial system following the mid-September 2019 ‘Repogeddon’ inter-bank repurchase market meltdown, then all that flowed from ‘Event Covid’, fiscally and monetarily, will be clear to you…
…- From the fact that some 90% of *ALL* Covid stymie money wound up in the pockets of Banksters, to the many Biden era pork bills (Green New Deal, Inflation ‘Reduction’ (Ho Ho!) Act, etc.), to the Biden hyperinflation and sundry other funny money shenanigans (DOGE revelations)…
…- I saw a chart from the UMich’s ‘FRED’ (Federal Reserve Economic Data) database of M1 money supply around late ’20/early ’21 iirc, where the chart went full-on hockeystick in February 2020… – Good luck if you can find it though because it was the last M1 chart UMich published before suddenly anouncing they would no longer be collecting data on M1 money supply. If you *can* manage to clap eyes on that chart you will instantly see why they came to that ‘decision’.
PS: You and Betsy are both right on the money (‘scuse the pun) about there being an ongoing stealth recession.
…- Well, well, well – seek and ye shall find!… – Apparently they *Are* still tracking M1, although I *Clearly* recall them saying they wouldn’t any longer, right after the chart I mentioned above came out:
https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/M1SL
(Note the ‘ramp’ from Sep 2008 to Feb 2020… – That is indicative of *All* the TARP-thru-QE1,2,3…n-type interventions due to the subprime-mortgage-backed-derivatives-catalysed *prior* meltdown of the banking system. Interventions which themselves were historically unprecedented in sheer $-value quantity at the time…)
All at our expense. All that qualitative easing QE is part of the 37 trill debt we will continue to pay for the rest of our lifetimes. Well unless of course PDJT can get it paid down before he exits in 2032. 😗😂 splodey heads exploding. 🤯
“All that qualitative easing QE is part of the 37 trill debt we will continue to pay for the rest of our lifetimes.”
…- And your kids, your grandkids, your great-grandkids, your great-great-grandkids, your great-great-great-grandkids, and their kids, and their grandkids, and their great-grandkids, and so on, and so on, and so on, etc, etc, etc…
…- *All The Way* to the very heat-death of the universe itself, or kingdom come, itself (whichever arrives later) *And Beyond*…
…- And yet *Still* it will not be paid down – it is a *Flat-Out* mathematical impossibility…
…- Sundance is incorrect on one point here, btw: – There aren’t Trillions at stake – last time I checked in on this, back around 2012-ish, the entire global derivatives complex (*All* of it, essentially, *Debt*, one way or another) was rumored to be valued at somewhere in the region of $2.4*Quadrillion* USD, however this figure doesn’t take into account alla the ‘dark pool’/’dark exchange’ trades sloshing about, so I *Conservatively* guesstimated it, back then, to be *At Least* twice that figure – and this was in around 2012…
…- Go ahead and let that soak for a minute, Treeps…
“…rumored to be valued at…”
…- Thing is *Nobody* really knows what the value of the global derivatives market is, and if they tell you they do, they’re either an idiot or they’re lying because:
1) The multitude of collateral chains involved (who actually owns/is owed what bet/claim) within the derivatives complex is entirely intractable and thus *Entirely Opaque* (See: salami-sliced subprime CDOs, full of toxic sludge, for example…);
2) The afforementioned ‘dark pool/exchange’ trades ultimately renders the whole derivatives complex *Entirely Opaque* (Because of point 1));
3) (From points 1) and 2) and *Many* additional reasons, besides) The entire derivatives complex is *Ludicrously* open to fraud, such that whatever bookkeeping does exit is entirely untrustworthy, thus rendering the entire derivatives complex *Entirely Opaque*…
Always remember one thing about econmics.
The occupation of economic forecaster was created many years ago for the sole purpose of lending credibility to the occupation of astrologer.
<chuckles>
… it also lends credibility to the occupation of weather forecaster…..
“There’s a better than 50 percent chance of weather tomorrow…”
To your 1st point…41%
and “PERMANENT” government jobs grew by 6% under Biden…..or 2.1 million fed, state, and local….
job growth also by hiring govt employees (packing the ranks)
“we’ve actually been in a recession for a while,”
Martin Armstrong & his computer maintain that the entire world is heading for a recession that PDJT cannot do anything about.
That might be true, but I trust PDJT and his team to get us thru it. Of course, he will be unjustly blamed if that were to occur.
Pretty much anything is preferable to the alternative we were faced with.
BHO was ranting somewhere recently about PDJT upsetting the [corrupt] world order/ dynamic that was established since WW2.
Ed Dowd says the same, DI.
Too many land mines laid by “Biden” as he did his worst.
Nothing is written in stone…I hope they are both proven wrong.
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/ed-dowd-fears-short-deep-recession-coming-doge-exposes-mind-shocking-fraud-propped-bidens
They kept changing the definition of recession for der NippleFuhrer;
Two quarters of no growth, Three, really, Well, four when you think about it, five–but who’s counting…
Yes.
Their favourite tool, Gipper…just redefine as necessary for the purposes of the political moment.
One of my faves….the Fed’s 2% inflation target.
The COVID/VAXX Bio-Attack required a whole new dictionary, Bets.
Yes sir. Little tweaks here and there.
Insidious and purposeful.
“What is a woman”
“What is a vaccine”
“What (prithee pray tell) is a
‘mostly peaceful’
protest 🪧????”
Yes, SS Cola reflecting “inflation” was 2.6%
Those land mines were not all laid by Biden. He had help from the Schumer Bortherhood, the Grahamnesty RINOs, and the British banksters who tell those folks what to do if they expect to get their next installment of grift.
That’s why I put his name in inverted commas, Yinzer.
I should have written “Biden, Inc”.
A joint effort if ever there was one…domestically and foreign.
Correct.
Dowd and Martins computer have the same shortcoming; they forget “past performance is no guarantee,.. ”
The reason the Trump era is so gobsmacking amazing is that there is no direct, or even “rhyming” parrallel in history, hence trying to predict, based on “conventional wisdom” or records from the past is inherently off.
What the prognosticators don’t know, dutch, they make up.
I have a lot of respect to give to someone who simply says, “I dont know.”
THIS
The contrived screech over tanking stocks DELIBERATELY ignores Trump’s front-end mitigation like slashing government spending, decreasing cost of energy, advancing deregulation to remedy supply chain vulnerability, advancing income tax revamp, reminding voters Biden left Chinese tariffs in place, and calling out Wall Street’s self-mutilation via playing market uncertainty games that ironically drive their own sabotage
OrangeManBadass bringing RocketManBadass onboard to terminal clean DC’s F-Schedule has pushed their system over the cliff…right where it belongs, Wall Street be damned
There’s a NEW economic metric coming to town, America
“BHO was ranting somewhere recently about PDJT upsetting the [corrupt] world order/ dynamic that was established since WW2.”
Obama urges Americans to ‘possibly sacrifice’ in resisting Trump policies
Former President Barack Obama says President Donald Trump’s behavior is ‘contrary to the basic compact we have as Americans’
“…Obama spoke at Hamilton College in Clinton, New York, on Thursday and accused the Trump administration of trying to destroy the post-World War II international order, according to the Washington Post…”
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/obama-urges-citizens-possibly-sacrifice-resisting-president-trump-policies
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I have a better idea.
He can sacrifice for us.
he s callng for suicide bombs, etc…..”sacrifice yourselves” … wth … he needs to be hauled up on charges .. he is calling for sedition and treason
Wishful thinking.
Even though he deserves it.
Galatians 6:7 KJV
Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap.
Romans 12:19 KJV
Dearly beloved, avenge not yourselves, but rather give place unto wrath: for it is written, Vengeance is mine; I will repay, saith the Lord.
Obama & Big Mike are apparently on the skids. I attribute their marital problems to all that USAID $$ drying up. “Activism” ain’t what it used to be before Trump. “Resist” is all Obama & the Uniparty’s got. I think we’re in a different place a month from now. Already, countries are bidding to reduce tariffs & negotiate better trade. The Houthies are about destroyed which means shipping lanes are soon restored. China is going to have to do something expensive to boost their economy & Iran’s dollar is crashing. MAGA!!
Maybe be a sacrifice for us? He can be first?
Well, he’s exactly right, that US exactly what Presudent Trump is doing, “,..destroying the post-WW2 international order,…” it being corrupt as hell.
I involontarily shudder whenever Obammy, Hitlery, or any of them say the word “sacrifice”as unspeakable, horrific mental images pop into my head.
That is because you and I know what some Luciferians do.
Yes!
It’s TIME to destroy the post-World War II
International Order!
That time came more than 30 years ago – when the USSR no longer existed… and there no longer was any reason for NATO to exist.
Fair trade should have been the motto going forward – not the fake
‘Free Trade’ endlessly bleated by the msm sheep.
The inflation they created destroyed working and middle class young couples wanting to start a family and purchasing a house. I believe it is part of their war against the Traditional family, lowering Western peoples birthrates, and forcing both parents to work and thus less traditional family parenting. This is a war against the natural order, God’s order.
The houses have increased over $200,000 dollars in my neighborhood since the Biden fronted regime, where I used to live its more like $300,000 up north. The damage that was done in those four years, which I believe America needed to see to fully realize how evil & criminal President Donald J Trump’s opponents are was necessary.
My regards friend Bet.
The ruination of tradition and the family…and the public elimination of Almighty God from the centre of America…were the methods used to destroy a prosperous and stable nation. It took decades, and there were no shortages of those in high places to effect this shameful and terrible state. Those who took part must have truly despised our Republic and anyone who got in their way.
Years back, my oldest managed to snatch a quick photo of herself with George W Bush before what his contribution to where we are today was so obvious. It was a wonderful photo of her when she was at university, one of the best I had ever seen, and so I put it in a small frame and placed it on a side table in our living room.
Nevertheless, I have now removed it.
Johnson, Carter, Clinton, Bushes I and II, Obama I and no question II, with the assistance of the worst, Soros, have tried to hand us to satanic globalists and their evil agenda. Yes, as many as could see had to experience these past four years, the ungodly, live destroying effects of their agenda, decades in the making. It has cost us all, some more than others in terrible ways.
Undoing the damage won’t be easy. It will take time. But God in His heaven has seen fit to give us Donald Trump…
And so I am hopeful this rusted but mighty ship will sail on after President Trump is finished with his refit.
Appointed for such a time as this?
It’s impossible for me to believe otherwise.
For the sake of those who follow us and the memories of those who fought like hell and died to preserve our way of life as was, I pray so 🙏🏻
Well said as usual. Did you make the connection to his mother’s name and father’s middle name? Trump family bible also.
I absolutely did, dear friend.
I imagine the family Bible has been a constant source of comfort to him during the persecutions he has had to endure. I believe that the serenity he seems to exude in the face of it all comes from that precious Book.
And I’m sure he has felt the loving presence of his mother’s spirit every day since her passing.
Amen Amen Ms Betsy! 😎❤️
I would bet you feel exactly the same, my friend.
Trump’s Tariffs Are Working — Here Are All The Countries Already Backing Down
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/04/trumps-tariffs-are-working-here-are-all-countries/
“I’d like to call the attention of our colleagues to this chart on the status quo that the business community is asking each and every one of you— to each and every one of us to endorse today. Right now, we have a $34 billion trade deficit with China, the 1995 figure. It will be over $40 billion for 1996. Since the Tiananmen Square Massacre, this figure has increased 1,000%, from three and a half billion then, to about $34 billion now. In terms of tariffs, I think it’s interesting to note that the average US MFN [Most Favored Nation] tariff on Chinese goods coming into the United States is 2%, whereas the average Chinese MFN tariff on US goods going into China is 35%. Is that reciprocal?
On exports, China only allows certain industries into China—of US industries into China, and therefore only 2% of US exports are allowed into China. On the other hand, the US allows China to flood our markets with a third of their exports, and that will probably go over 40%, and it’s limitless because we have not placed any restriction. In terms of jobs, this is the biggest and cruelest hoax of all! Not only do we not have market access, not only do they have prohibitive tariffs, not only are our exports not let in very specifically, but China benefits with at least, at least 10 million jobs from US China trade.
President Clinton, in his statement requesting this special waiver, said that China trade supports 170,000 jobs in the United States, 170,000 jobs, whereas our imports from China support 10 million jobs at least. The fact is that US-China trade is a job loser…”
Nancy Pelosi agrees with you, Stephen!
Or did, until she realized the Chinese would pay her off, like the Clintons figured out.
FLASHBACK: Nancy Pelosi Rails Against Unfair Trade and Theft, Demands Reciprocal Tariffs Against China
in 1996 House Floor Speech – “This is The Biggest and Cruelest Hoax of All!” (VIDEO) | The Gateway Pundit
If she were saying these same things today, she would be considered a MAGA person agreeing with everything Trump is doing!
Biden once slammed Trump’s China tariffs. Now he’s building on them: ANALYSIS – ABC News
Although the Biden administration won’t admit it, new tariffs on China announced Tuesday represent a major shift for President Joe Biden.
Back in 2019, Biden slammed then-President Donald Trump’s move to impose tariffs on $300 billion worth of Chinese imports.
“Trump doesn’t get the basics. He thinks his tariffs are being paid by China,” Biden said at the time. “Any freshman econ student could tell you that the American people are paying his tariffs.”
Then in 2020, while campaigning for the White House, Biden vowed to remove Trump’s tariffs if elected. …
But now, not only is Biden keeping those Trump-era tariffs in place, he actually is building on them.
It’s true that Biden’s new tariffs on $18 billion worth of Chinese imports are narrowly focused on a few strategic industries. At a Rose Garden event unveiling the new actions, Biden touted it as a “smart approach” to target goods such as electric vehicles, solar cells, steel, aluminum and certain medical equipment.
But he is maintaining many of the broad-based tariffs from the Trump-era that he was once highly critical of. …
Last election time, Joey Autopen cynically promised American autoworkers that they would build the EVs he was forcing on everyone. But he and BlackRock had already arranged for all those mandatory golf carts to be built by China in Mexico by rigging the USMCA.
Thank You, Lord!
China and Blackrock – Biden EPA Rolls Out USA Auto Mandates Forcing EVs
to Make Up Two-Thirds of Passenger Vehicles – Who Benefits? – The Last Refuge
Why are tariffs good for other countries but not the US?
That is what I would bring up to all these anti- tariff Libertarians.
I understand their concept, but we do not live in a perfect world.
People and countries are going to cheat to benefit themselves.
Comes down to whether they believe in open borders or not. Free trade without free movement of people is a scam
Some libertarians believe in open borders dome don’t
Because shuddup.
Because other countries needed to import oil, tariffs were good for them. Oil was bought and sold internationally with U.S. Dollars, and the U.S. Dollar was the international reserve currency. So other countries needed to obtain dollars to buy oil. To do that, they raised tariffs on goods imported from the U.S. and exported their best goods to the U.S., which did not have reciprocal tariffs. The U.S. then ran budget deficits to increase the supply of dollars, and trade deficits to spent a portion of the excess dollars buying imports. So, looked at it one way, we got our imports almost free for many years, because the demand for dollars was so high internationally. We defended this system with our military spending for many years, but those days are in the past.
Trump is right about attacking the tariff component of the fair trade field, but it’s only a part of the problem. The hostile tax/regulation structure that is a feature of establishment governance, be it Democrat or GoPe, also acts to drive companies to countries where the labor costs are cheap enough to balance those considerations. Americans expect good paying, middle class jobs, and companies will provide those as long as the tax/regulation structure is favorable to business. But where it isn’t, those good paying middle class labor costs are just another unfavorable cost of doing business.
Thankfully, Trump knows this and is attacking on three prongs: lowering taxes, slashing regulations, forcing other countries (through reciprocal tariffs) to lower their sky high tariffs that force companies that wish to compete in those markets to relocate overseas. Any American politician that would fight against this (looking at you Ted Cruz) is either ignorant or part of the grift. Unless you’ve stood in the halls of congress blowing hot air about the unfair trading practices of other countries, and demanded that they lower their tariffs, you haven’t a leg to stand on complaining when we raise our own tariffs HALF as high as the others unless, as I said, you are ignorant are part of the grift (looking at you Cocaine Mitch).
J
I’m looking at Cruz as well, Jonrilus, hoping he has a quiet moment to reflect on the complete idiocy of his tariff comments.
For a bright person, it was an incredibly stupid and ignorant stance to take. I think his narcissism overtook his brain.
She would not love to continue the conversation. She just wants to criticize and fearmonger.
Don’t confuse her with the facts her mind is already made up.
What did Felix tell Paul we will hear thee again at a more convenient time
Tariffs are like pizza. Everybody likes it, but they always argue about what kind is best and how you should eat it.
I want mine with extra covfefe.
The pretense among the globlists, RINOs and propaganda class on this issue is quite interesting to watch.
I have always loved SM. He is a true patriot and one of the smartest people in DJT’s administration. He is truly American worker first. My faith and hope is in him (and Navarro) stopping the on/off/shoring of jobs that is relentless right now in this country. The H1B Visa/foreign workers/students needs to end as well….if SM and PN have their way I know they will end it…my concern is the “tech brois” and lobbiests that surround our President…we need American jobs to go to American workers in America. Full stop. I believe this is what SM wants as well….
Stephen Miller is just so articulate
And passionate
While remaining
Civil
Cordial
And
Laser-focused on the facts.
Rebalancing Global Trade will make the sky bluer for America, but the sky won’t fall without it.
This will be like pulling a bandaid off a cut or scab very quickly. Trump must have weekly addresses to the nation from the oval office and be very candid with by the hour to the day progress. While short pressers on air force one are nice they won’t do the trick especially with gotcha press questions. He must have 10-15 minutes once a week describing in detail what is happening.
I’m 77 years old and my wife’s and my IRAs have taken a hit over the Trump tariffs, BUT I am more than willing to take a little short-term pain for the long-term benefits and I am 100% in favor of these tariffs because we FINALLY have an American President who’s not a prevaricating, globalist puppet, a Commander-in-Chief who really has the best interests of the people at heart!
I don’t give a rat’s ass what the Dems, the RINOs, Politico, the Wall Street Journal, the Washington Post and the globalist alphabet soup at NBC, ABC, CBS and MSNBC say about President Trump and his tariffs because they have repeatedly demonstrated that they don’t give a rat’s ass about my country!
I have my two American flags hanging from my front porch and still have my TRUMP/VANCE sign in my yard because this President is delivering on his promises in spades!
After suffering through over thirty years of Clinton, Obama, two Bushes and the geriatric nightmare of Biden, the sun is rising on our great nation again!
Dunno how many other people of my age are excited about America’s future but I sure as hell am one of them!
This fellow 77 y/o agrees with you 100%.
I love it! And you probably remember 77 Sunset Strip too!
Kookie (sp?) Ed Byrns (sp?)
And Hawaiian Eye?
Very Succinct & Well Stated . . . I am 64 and wholeheartedly agree with you, Sir! God Bless America The Beautiful
Thank you, TX9! God bless America The Beautiful and the memory of the great American poet who wrote it, Katherine Lee Bates!
67 and hold…hold…hold…
My husband and I are a decade or so behind you but we are also willing to “take a hit” IF it means that our children and grandchildren will actually have a chance to live the American Dream that both of our fathers fought to protect and defend! Not going to do my kids any good to leave them a two million dollar house (if present trends continue) when they’re in their late 40s. Honestly, I would rather the value of our house drop a bit as the property taxes, on our fixed income, are out of control, if that meant that my kids, in their early 30s, could afford a decent starter house, and feel like they could start a family!
Well said, Viking mom. I asked my slightly liberal son-in-law what the biggest debt his family of 4 owes and he said his house. I shook my head and said, “Nope, it’s the $440,000.00 in debt your government has saddled you all with!
And, yes, I now believe my granddaughters will have a real chance at the American Dream!
79 here, on the …”trailing edge”…..with you all the way. Hold the l8ne…
As a 72 y/o with a pension portfolio, I strongly suspect that the stocks who have taken a tariffs hit, are companies who have been exploiting environmental and human resources in other countries…….it pains me to think that part of my pension is based on the potential exploitation of others.
It’s going to hurt me hard, but it’s the only right way forward.
How did your wife’s daffodils fare? Didn’t want to take up space to ask whether they were potted or cut, but I have much experience doing professional florist work and will gladly give tips if you ever need. (Continuing to pray.)
We live in the woods so we have daffodils growing wild in big patches all over our wonderful property! I cut a bunch for her bedside table to cheer her up and another bunch for our family room to cheer me up, haha!
Thanks for your prayers for her, (which I’m returning for you), and your offer of that professional green thumb…both are appreciated!
Cut stems at a sharp angle, under water. Add a little sugar or crushed aspirin to vase water if you don’t have floral preservative. No leaves in water. Keep out of direct sunlight. Re-snip ends a little each day.
You really do know your stuff! Thank you!
Just turned 65 and I am right there with you.
Just drove by a couple protesters hanging on a corner with a teenager blocking them with a trump flag. There is hope for sure
Great post. As a 78 yo “ young gal” I am overwhelmed with what Pres Trump is accomplishing at almost lightning speed. God saved him in July for all he is doing now.
Our accounts are down but they will recover. After the 4 nightmare years of a dementia patient so called president Trump is delivering.
With Trump delivering on campaign promises & Musk uncovering vast fraud & waste in government who cannot like this?
Thank you stargirl! What is happening IS overwhelming, in the best of ways…and yes, your accounts and ours, will recover and our grandchildren can live the America Dream because of the actions our President is taking!
77 here, too, and I agree with you.
You’re my man! (or waman, haha!)
I agree with you. I also add that USA food is slowly becoming unavailable. They are pushing New Zealand beef, I cannot get American garlic. I refuse to buy Chinese garlic that is bleached and Argentinian garlic.
California garlic is being shipped where?
At 77 we are old enough to remember what chicken and meat,as well as veggies really should taste like.
I’m 76 and buy grass-fed AZ beef which is shipped to me. Pricey, but I eat small portions so it works out reasonably per meal.
Garlic is very easy and rewarding to grow. I have 80 plants that will be ready in June. After dehydrating, the bulbs will be ground into powder with my coffee grinder.
goodranchers.com
https://lnk.rise-ai.com/W7wJzubTdG2CU9p for $30 off (and a bonus for me if you would) Thanks
Thanks for the link! I’ve been watching for more locally sourced foods for awhile and this will help!
We live in the country and are fortunate enough to have farm stores in our area that raise their own beef and dairy…and sell those things direct to the public and my daughter buys our eggs from a lady who raises her own chickens. The egg shells range in color from pale green to beige to white and the egg yolks from pale yellow to orange, so you never know what you’re gonna get, but it’s all good!
The DOW is almost exactly where it was one year ago, but the Wall Street whores (the MSM) are screaming.
Wall Street Doesn’t Reflect the Real Economy
2 Apr 2025
https://prosperousamerica.org/wall-street-doesnt-reflect-the-real-economy/
Want to refresh any hate you should have for for Wall Street? Watch the great film, The Big Short.
I decided this week that Wall Street is another propagandist arm of the Democrat Communist party & it has severe TDS. Thank you Sundance for introducing us to Main Street. It’s where middle America & workers reside. Wall Street is not our friend.
Stephen Miller is the smartest guy in the room.
I dunno… depends on if our VSGPDJT is in the room or not. 😀
What’s so terrific about Stephen Miller is that his articulateness stems from the fact that he Believes what he says.
The words flow more fully when there is no disconnect between heart and head.
I bet Miller must be fascinating to listen to in private conversation.
The private (and they should remain private) conversations Miller has with DJT may be some of the most important and productive ones in this administration.
The President has a great ‘apprentice’ in Stephen Miller.
What are the Chinese currently importing from the U.S. that their increased tariffs will apply to? I read recently that they are importing some rare earth minerals from us, so I suppose their tariffs will apply to those. But those minerals are mostly being used to produce goods that they will then export back to the U.S. So they will be making their exports more expensive by putting tariffs on their imports? Doesn’t make much sense.
What else are they importing? I have read many times over the years that all those container ships coming from China piled sky-high with full containers go back to China with almost nothing but empty containers, to be refilled and sent back to us. So what are they really importing that their huge tariff response will actually apply to?
Soy beans for tofu.
There is a large supply of “once used” cargo shipping containers at all times and for many years now in the USA.
Where I wonder do they all come from?
Probably ag products, like pork (they bought Smithfield Foods – Armour, Farmland, Smithfield)
Shen Yun
They import scrap steel and aluminum from us to convert into products to sell back to us
I wish people would understand what the Dow actually is. It has no relevance to the value of the shares you hold. It just indicates if people are buying or selling.
FEAR!
The war in Ukraine taught the USA and NATO many things about manufacturing. It is no exaggeration to say that “modern war” is a contest of manufacturing. And we quickly discovered that Russia had not “outsourced” its (general, nor military) industrial capacity. So, they could “ramp up” to produce as many weapons as they needed, while USA/NATO began to “run out.”
It may be impossible for people today to realize that the USA was once “the arsenal of democracy,” capable of producing a brand-new heavy bomber every hour, beginning with ore that was not imported. Beginning in the 1970’s, American leaders thought they were “the brightest crayons in the box” as they plotted to emasculate that former industrial powerhouse, ceding everything(!) to a dangerous enemy.
Very simply stated: if you don’t put [your_country] FIRST, in every thing that you do and in every thing that you negotiate, no one else on earth will ever do so. (And, why on earth should they? They’ve got [their_country] to attend to.) They will simply agree with you that you are “one bright crayon,” while robbing you blind. (As you would of course do, were the situation reversed.)
President Washington once told Congress, “A free people … should promote such manufactories as tend to render them independent on others for essential, particularly military supplies.”
Alexander Hamilton: “Every nation … ought to endeavor to possess within itself all the essentials of national supply. These comprise the means of subsistence, habitation, clothing and defense.”
Hmmm …. “We once did.” In fact, for centuries . . .
Ww1, and 2 should have taught the lessin, that war is, at least in part about industrial capacity, and 3 that its about economics, that you can win a war (the cold one) without firing a shot, if you ccan bankrupt your opponent .
In the Ukraine war, the idiots advanced a theory. They said “we will win this war, not with bullets or bombs, but with ,…oh, something like the power of our ideals, basically they meant bulshyte.
Like the Colonel in “the battle of the light brigade ” who theorised a detirmined light brigafe of cavalry could overrun a gun emplacemeny, their theory has proved wrong.
Even WITH plenty of bullets and bombs, you can not win a war with propoganda. And, in fact they are losing, in part due to an inherent industrial capacity advantage of their opponent.
Counter argument:
Great overview and common sense on tariffs by VDH.
VDH points out the #1 reason for tariffs: to create MORE and BETTER jobs for AMERICANS!
It’d be encouraging to see more companies willing to relocate to avoid tariffs.
None of what he speaks of are new issues. Obviously, it’s VERY important that someone in a place of authority is saying it, using their outside voice.
My father spoke about precisely the same things. Quietly. In the 1950s. Nothing new.
What’s different is that we have the internet and finally (some) people are YELLING the truth.
I’m pre-boomer (born in 1944). Lived through the entire Cold War. The Korean War. The Vietnam War. And had family directly involved in all three.
I really hope that within the understanding of those millions just coming to grips with the massive mess, there is very little of any idea that something new and terrible has happened. Something terrible has been happening for decades. There is NOTHING new about it. I’m so grateful for POTUS Trump and his cabinet and staff who are ready and able to USE THEIR OUTSIDE VOICES to educate the public. May their tribe increase. Massively.
Legal Insurrection has a less positive view of all these tariffs.
https://legalinsurrection.com/2025/04/trump-imposes-wildly-varying-reciprocal-tariffs-that-arent-reciprocal-at-all-and-punish-friendly-nations-with-few-trade-barriers/
Trump’s tariffs are kinder to countries that are mean to us than to countries that are kind to us. Protectionist Brazil, which has a left-wing president, was slapped with a mere 10% tariff, while America’s ally South Korea, which has a free-trade treaty with the U.S., was slapped with a harsh 25% tariff. Vietnam, 84% of whose people liked America, has been slapped with a harsh 46% tariff. That big tariff will undermine our foreign policy by making it harder to contain China by moving production from China to its neighbor, Vietnam. The European Union has been slapped with a 20% tariff, while friendly Switzerland has been hit by a 31% tariff and Japan has been hit by a 24% tariff. But Iran, which has repeatedly taken Americans hostage, received a tariff of only 10%.
As journalist Josh Barro explains, “The tariffs are not reciprocal — the ‘reciprocal’ rates are based on trade deficits, not tariffs (or non-tariff trade barriers), *and* then tariffs are even imposed on countries with which we have a trade surplus. News outlets should not accept the ‘reciprocal’ branding.”
The tariffs also are imposed on territories that have done nothing to the U.S. “Trump’s tariffs target the uninhabited Heard and McDonald Islands,” notes Mike Baker of the New York Times. And Trump imposed a tariff increase on an island that contains a key U.S. military base. “He has introduced a 10% tariff on the British Indian Ocean Territory. The only inhabited island there is Diego Garcia, home to US service personnel. Trump has put a tariff on a U.S. military base.”
Legal Insurrection was rabid anti-Trump and all in for DeSantis.
Vietnam has already said they want to go -0- tariffs, and we don’t want manufacturing to move from China to Vietnam, we want it to move from Chna and Vietnam, to the U.S.
These are people that start our being against the tariffs, and then try to come up with arguments as to why.
False narratives…
Right now, its not about whether a country ids “nice” to us, or if its people like us, its about bringing down excessively high trade barriers, which includes tarrifs and other methods of freezing us out of their markets, such as excessive or unreasonable regulations, currency anipulation, etc.
Rather than try to come up with a mathematical formulae to take ibto account such variables, just keep it simple.
Assume with no trade barriers there would be no trade deficit; in that case any trafe deficit is an accutare reflection of that countries trade barriers, and so a good, accurate INDICATOR.
Medium term the goal is to bring manufacturing into our country, obviously.
Long term, tariffs will provide the POTUS, directly with an incredibly powerful tool to exert “soft power” in Americas National interests, without the need for, expence of, or loss of control involved in CIA/USAID operations to engineer color revolutions.
Countries that engage in behaviors .contrary to our National interests, like harboring terrorist
cartels, allowing their country to be used as a condiuit for trafficing, trying to draw us into a war with Russia, will be threatened with having access to our markets denied.
Its a far less expensive and less messy way for the U.S. Presidents to exert soft power (in order to persuade other countries to behave) than the whole USAID set up, and the POTUS retains the control, avoiding the risk of a rougue deep State.
Michael Every lays it all out:
The long view about what is going on:
Global Daily: Hoot Small-ly and Reverse Nixon Again
https://www.rabobank.com/knowledge/q011473300-global-daily-hoot-small-ly-and-reverse-nixon-again
Grant Williams and Michael Kao interview Rabobank’s Michael Every on the decline of the post-WWII Liberal World Order (LWO) and the rise of Economic Statecraft.
Best explanation yet that I have seen of the intent of the Trump administration
https://www.urbankaoboy.com/p/kaos-theory-episode-9-michael-every?r=jt0hj&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web
“Show Notes for the TLDR (Too Long Didn’t Read) folks:”
I am in the “Too Long Didn’t Watch” crowd
Only 24 hours in a day
So I skimmed the notes.
“Trump is so terrible, at picking staff for his admimistration.”/SARC.
Steven Miller, Navarro, Lutnic, Marco, Vance, etc. he has a deep bench who are smart, and they are very good communicators, which is essential because the way to counter or neutralise the tactic of the enemy with false narratives by getting out in front, in effect having the TRUTH run around the world, while their lies are still lacing up their shoes.
And yes, Bondi, Kash who’s public message HAS to be A) that they are eliminating the politicisation, rather than simply continueing it against the admins enemies, and B) getting DOJ and FBI refocused on core mission of Making America Safe Again, by getting violent criminals off the streets..
The Roadmap:
Stephen Miran: President Trump’s Chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers
“A User’s Guide to Restructuring the Global Trading System”
https://www.hudsonbaycapital.com/documents/FG/hudsonbay/research/638199_A_Users_Guide_to_Restructuring_the_Global_Trading_System.pdf
Financial advisor dislikes Trump but respects what Trump is doing:
Simply stated,
Tariffs do not curtail Americans ability to do business.
Tariffs are the business of the Federal Government…
And by design, are to be the primary source of operational revenue {external revenue}.
Federal taxation {internal revenue} of The People {public Monies} is, as Reid opined, armed robbery.
Anyone who voluntarily pays one red cent of their earnings to this Federal Government, especially now {DOGE}, is, imho,
A traitor to The United States Of America.
Seriously People,
Is President Trump’s IRS going to throw US into debtors prison ?
Settlement date was 02APR2025.
In God We Trust
Trust God
Fear not
Well, things as they are, we have to pay them until they are abolished. Even Jesus paid taxes (“give to Cesar, that which is Caesar’s…”).
what does Settlement date was 02APR2025. mean?
I love the way Stephen Miller shreds the opposition’s narratives. 🏆💪🏻😇
TinyD is the epitomy ConInc…a Bushy thru and thru
We will never be a viable country if we do not have our manufacturing jobs for American workers, our farms producing fruits and vegetables and jobs for American workers, our tech industries producing new jobs for American workers.
We cannot afford to outsource any jobs, businesses, or plants to other countries. We must keep our jobs here in the USA for American workers.
We must produce our own goods, develop our own resources for our own people and if any is left over, then we can export what we don’t use.
Quit sending US Dollars abroad. Fix American infrastructure and pay off our National debt. Our children do not deserve to be saddled with this enormous debt.
When the statement … “protecting American Industry is used” …. it leaves out a key unspoken fact and statement of the obvious that still has to be added … “protecting American Industry and PROTECTING AMERICAN WORKERS’ JOBS”.
Adding the obvious and the human element to the objective of the Tariff Strategy is important, especially when answering questions during interviews. Force the bad guys to admit they do not care about the workers.
Bravo Stephen! Bravo!
In my opinion, Stephen Miller has become the best spokesman for President Trump since his inauguration. Time and again, I am amazed at Miller’s ability to articulate a defense of Trump’s positions in a clear, straightforward, and forceful manner. I now make efforts to follow Miller to watch his encounters with the media. Miller has made himself perhaps the one figure in Trump’s cabinet who may be indispensable.
Stephen Miller would have made a fine Vice President, just saying…
He is the real deal, and we all know it.
And I would love to see him run for presidenct with President Trumps endorsement.
I don’t buy American cars because the UAW always elects communists to head their union.
one of my favorites
he makes so much sense
that anyone should be able to get it
and just because the media says there is a recession, looming or otherwise, doesn’t mean its true
and must because the media says the economy is booming doesn’t mean its true either
“People are concerned about the ‘R’ word.”
Answer: After the Joe Biden & Obama Democrat spent the USA into a inflation-spiraling level of debt, we’re concerned about the “R” word AND the “F.C.” words. Recession and Financial Collapse. We’re attempting to right the economic ship of state, to fix the mess that the Democrat’s left us over the past FIFTY years.
As always, I feel much better after listening to Stephen.
A day without Stephen Miller’s brilliance, is like a day without sunshine.
This man is a Godsend and a poster child for MAGAnomics.
He is so articulate as to why we must continue to pursue the America First policies on trade.
At this point, everyone should understand that particular sector stocks are only one indicator of wealth and economic prosperity.
If Main Street is full of unemployed workers and shops/factories remain closed, the country cannot survive.
We are on life support and the shot in the arm is the tariff program to rebalance trade and revive US economic health.
May God guide us to success.
Out of all of Trumps people, for me, Steve is the best. He’s like a bolt of lighting coming at you with his truth and convictions…God bless him.
It’s like rolling over a rock and watching all the potato bugs scatter.
Nancy Pelosi, of all people, identified the trade imbalance problem with China way back in 1996!
In this video clip she explains the situation as it was back then and she explains it perfectly. The Democrats complaining about Trump’s trade reset to day would do well to listen to one of their ‘heroes’. If only she’d stayed true to herself!
Nancy Pelosi on US Trade deficit with China in 1996 – YouTube
Love that Santa Monica boy!
He has been a voice for America since high school.
Bright, informed, & fearless! 🗡️
The only thing that stands in the way of the globalists creating their long sought after dream of a NWO Communist Authoritarian government is the US. Because we have been a beacon of light in the world. Extinguish the light and the rest of the world falls into their claws. They thought destroying us was a shoe-in. They’ve been planning their moves to take us down in stages for 60 years, until they might finally be able to complete the coup from within without firing a shot.
Unfortunately for them, God wasn’t going along with their plan to destroy America and brought us Donald J Trump for POTUS. An astute businessman, he saw through the tricks they were pulling. They hate him because he knows how to stop them. He won’t be bought like the rest of the cowards in DC. He showed us how incompetent and ruthlessly treacherous our leaders have been for decades. Now, most of the American people have had their eyes opened, which is why PDJT won in an unprecedented landslide.
These criminally-minded globalist psychopaths are not going to go down easy. There is nothing too low or too evil they won’t try to stay on top of their ill-begot Fiefdom and their ruthless plans. As long as we have President Trump and he has control of our military, our Republic has a fighting chance to prevail. We hold the most important cards in the deck. Remember that, and don’t succumb to the fear-mongering. We are in a fight for our very survival as a Republic right now. And no, it won’t be easy for a minute. Be resilient.
Foolishly, they thought if they had Hollywood actors like Nicole Kidman do PR to demonstrate how delightful it is to eat worms, (like a shrimp cocktail), that we would embrace their plans to take our food supplies away and leave us with bugs, worms, and lab food to eat. They tried to convince us to downsize to “tiny homes” hoping we would jump at the chance to live in their “Smart Cities”, which IMO are code for urban prisons. Touting how “evil” fossil fuels are supposed to be, they thought they could con Americans into being happy to get along on bicycles in these “Smart Cities” to show our homage to “The Green New Deal,” to “protect the planet.” (While they circle the globe in their private jets/yachts to their multiple mansions peppered throughout the world) They’ve been laughed out of the room by most of us, and will never be taken seriously again.
It will be disheartening to see how many soulless traitors and racketeers there are among those we thought were on our side in our own government. Get ready. What DOGE is uncovering is not for the faint of heart. Pray for our POTUS and his Cabinet. Don’t back down. We have Freedom in our DNA and there’s nothing they can do about that. We will not become the slaves the NWO Globalists have dreamt of. Pray for God’s Mercy on America and for our Republic to prevail. In God we Trust. May God Bless America.
Isn’t Stephen Miller just great?
So smart.
So articulate.
So passionate.
And so relatable!
He
Explains
Promotes
Defends
The President’s policies so well.