On March 27th, CTH shared the following: “Wealthy nations will attempt to maintain exports against President Trump tariffs by subsidizing their industries. Corporations have deeper pockets, and the politicians are used to the bribes, we call it “lobbying.” Therefore, the government responds by subsidizing the corporations [ie. the WEF business model].
How does the politics of opposition surface? …”Canada will subsidize their export industries, Germany will subsidize their auto industry, the EU will provide subsidies to their manufacturing powerhouses, and China will once again start subsidizing their manufacturing industry. Each of these nations will in turn, eventually, devalue their currency.
However, poorer nations will be faster to lower import tariffs on USA goods because they have lower lobbying (bribe) income from corporations to govt. That’s what we should expect to see.” [LINK]
With the tariffs now triggered, it begins exactly as anticipated:
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The economics of the thing is now colliding with the politics and the ideology, of the thing. Globalists are being confronted. The proverbial West will cleave according to their financial self-interest.
The World Economic Forum (Build Back Better) model no longer views the USA as an ally. The MAGAnomic “Big Ugly” is underway. Countries will thrash and gnash their teeth; then surge in opposition, fail, then attempt to refoot and realign, then surge again and fail again.
And so it will go…
In 2019 Asia (ASEAN) was aligned as China was being confronted. The EU was the intended target for President Trump’s trade reset in term two as scheduled (2021-2025). However, COVID-19 pandemic and the resulting 2020 election threw a wrench in the plan.
In 2025 the EU focus is now a priority. ASEAN nations quickly reassemble on the original terms of Trump T-1. For Trump T-2, China is quickly moved back into adversarial position and focus returns to the previously scheduled look at Europe.
Yes, the EU understand the agenda; they know what was planned then and put aside. In Trump T-2 there is no avoidance mechanism that can be deployed. The only play the EU has is defense.
Europe is currently trying to arrange and coordinate a group of ideological allies to assist them. Those allies include Canada and to a lesser extent, Mexico. President Trump has shown a keen awareness of their best defense.
The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) will not battle Donald J Trump. Factually, they all aligned their economic investment policy to gain from Trump confronting China. ASEAN countries will not battle President Trump; they will comply.
Africa will try to walk a fine line between China and the USA. However, Africa will not confront President Trump directly and, if push comes to shove, they will likely not support China using their belt-and-road leverage to attempt transnational shipping as a tool for U.S tariff avoidance. [Insert a Trump-favorable Russia into this regional dynamic.]
It is the EU and the workaround relationships they created within Mexico and Canada who will fight the global trade reset with ferocity. Everything in the geopolitical world of economic opposition to President Trump will center around Europe.
PARIS, April 3 (Reuters) – French President Emmanuel Macron called on Thursday for European companies to suspend planned investment in the United States after U.S. President Donald Trump announced sweeping global tariffs on American imports.
“Investments to come or investments announced in recent weeks should be suspended until things are clarified with the United States,” Macron said during a meeting with French industry representatives.
The comments come weeks after French shipping firm CMA CGM announced plans to invest $20 billion in the U.S. to build shipping logistics and terminals, a plan that was hailed by President Trump at the time and mentioned again in his Wednesday speech unveiling the tariffs.
French electrical equipment supplier Schneider Electric (SCHN.PA) said late last month it would invest $700 million in the country to support U.S. energy infrastructure to power AI growth. (more)
The EU judicial and intelligence services hit Marine Le Pen for a reason.
Canada – Mark Carney, France – Macron, Ukraine – Zelenskyy, the EU Commission and Ursula Von der Leyen, all the way through NATO and into the German/Romanian elections and beyond, it’s all connected to the geopolitical dynamics of money, power and globalist economics.
Stay elevated. Keep watching. President Donald Trump is a master at the big picture stuff.
[ps. President Trump assigned every single one of those country specific tariff rates personally. Few understand why.]
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What does Europe have that we can’t live without? We could drop out of NATO and tell the UN to find another home. We could increase tariffs on German cars, blockade all wine and cheese from France, and say to the EU that they alone are responsible for their security. Great Britain and Ireland have already submitted to the Muslim invaders; they are lost.
FAFO
EVERY MAJOR INNOVATON in the last 50 years has been American. We can live WITHOUT Europe. The opposite cannot be said for Europe.
Heck many of the European Elites carry an Apple iPhone! They do Business on the Internet (and American creation). Europe NEEDS US, they always have since World War 2.
This is basically true.
There’s a chart I saw a few weeks ago that showed all the new companies created in the past few decades. It’s like 95% from USA.
I expected it to be high, like 50%. So was shocked that we are so dominant. USA really doesn’t need many of countries bleeding us dry.
I’m on vacation, otherwise I’d include a source link. I think it was from Bill Bonner
The reason we in the US are innovative and the EU are not is because of one simple reason – freedom.
We have free speech rights which the eurotrash socialists deny their people. Free speakers are also free thinkers, and by nature they are anti-establishment. Further, we protect private property rights (like intellectual property), unlike the overlords of the EU.
The innovative will go to where their ideas will flourish and be protected. That would be the USA.
Liberty!
Everything you stated is under pressure by democrat communists and President Trump does not have enough time to change the demographics that are slowly overwhelming white conservative America.
Tariffs might actually start a slow down in this respect.
Okay…… Vietnamese. Son had a friend that was married to a good looking Vietnamese girl.
Evil. All of which came out after the divorce.
While I was on speaking terms with said witch, found out what areas were the
Vietnamese hot spots. I live close to one, but the schools have made it less desirable.
Stone Mountain/ Clarkston, GA. Particularly 15–20 years ago.
But, the biggest area, by far, for well to do Vietnamese is Orange County, California.
It’s the promised land. Said witch used to visit all the time. She grew up in wealth,
parents were high ranking communist party members back when.
So… Vietnam and US start having beneficial trading arrangements. The quality of life
and cost of living in California has cratered. The ideology behind all of it is not remotely
popular with Vietnamese individuals. Take it from me, the vast majority hate any and
all things woke.
California: costs a fortune to live there, keeps passing insane laws, doesn’t do anything
to help people paying taxes (recent wild fires, right adjacent to Orange County). Can’t
see any improvement (those paying attention notice familiar patterns to what went
on back home in Vietnam).
We might start seeing some self deportations from overseas populations, back to their
home countries. Which might welcome them with open arms. What you get in $$ for
selling off a home in Orange County probably buys crazy nice homes/ land in Vietnam.
With a big amount left over to pocket.
Any country that has politics that are safe, where the cost of living is lower might see
possible voluntary self deportations from fed up middle class families.
Well said!
We have to accept that, in order to advance research and development, there will be failure. But we learn from our mistakes. And our capitalist system prices in that risk of failure in its monetary (bond/interest rate) system, and rewards the success (intellectual property rights). It’s a very pro-discovery setup that has resulted in amazing advancements.
They have not HAD to innovate. They’ve had us.
In the beginning, there was one language on earth. Man attempted to build the Tower of Babel so they could be as God.
God saw it and said as long as man could talk to each other and work together there was nothing they could not do.
The United States has succeeded because we were a diverse people that was molded into one with a mind to work. With the accepting of diversity and different languages we will not be as innovative as we were in the past. If we do not make English the official language and require people coming here to assimilate, we will continue to regress.
The goal of the Tower of Babel was to pierce through the firmament and reach the heavens.
The modern day Tower of Babel is the space program. Which is equally pointless, misguided, and inspired by the same “worship of man”.
I remember watching the Apollo 11 moon landing in elementary school. We were all instructed to give “mankind” a round of applause, and to be oh so thankful to be living in the age of modern technology.
I’m not so thankful, and I didn’t applaud. And even if we actually got there (which I highly doubt), the Moon is still within the firmament. As are the stars and the sun.
Screw the Secularists and the worship of shiny new toys!
Brussels invented the blumpkin.
A few years ago I read an article on patents granted over the years.
Hardly any from China, near zero from predominantly Moslem countries.
I’ve always chalked it up to their culture. They are so afraid of failure, of bringing shame to themselves and their family, of being different, that they can’t even think of taking the risk of failure and trying to innovate. Here, if you try something and fail, you brush yourself off and try again. Heck, even if you fail, you’re still mostly admired for trying. The Christian culture of forgiveness and redemption probably has a lot to do with that.
Don’t forget Israel. When it comes to innovation, they likely rank number two.
Invading hordes that will control nukes in the next couple of decades with a lower birth rate than us, and massive arrogance to name two.
Then it sounds like America should prepare for having these nations become foes instead of committing to having American sons and daughters to fight and die defending them.
White Americans better stand up and let it be known that they will fight against any enemy foreign or domestic. There are a lot of domestic enemies.
That applies to all Americans.
“Americans”…depends on who you ask for what that means…Words and meanings have been purposefully corrupted by Federal and State Governments to cloud who “they”(the govt’s) thinks that is…
Vote in a myriad of languages in State and Federal Elections in California…no problem. Create multi ethnic first generation Marxists in the public and private school system to take over administrative/planning/supervisorial/technology jobs…including wholesale importing of foreign educated STEM grads…bring it on.
Unless we educate and motivate second and third generation US Citizens (regardless of ethnicity) to compete for these jobs, protect their access to the educational system for the same, and rebuild admissions based on Merit, we will complete the cycle for the warning left by Ronald Regan in his California Inaugural Address, Jan 5th, 1967.
“Freedom is a fragile thing and it’s never more than one generation away from extinction. It is not ours by way of inheritance; it must be fought for and defended constantly by each generation, for it comes only once to a people. And those in world history who have known freedom and then lost it have never known it again.”
Yes, no more American military bloodshed of foreign soil. Our military only protect our borders and edges…bill
Exactly. I would add to that, bring all our military home, line both coasts with our navy, completely seal our borders and manufacture everything ourselves. Of course, have reliable intelligence services to keep an eye on the world. There was a period in the late 1800’s early 1900’s when we were largely isolated. Industrial Revolution era. Pretty sure that ran right up to and through the roaring 20’s. Got complicated when we entered WW1. I’m not naive enough to believe it’s that simple. But we could start there in addition to what you said. Tell those that have taken advantage of us to FO!!
Where will the young folks get their Nikes and their Lululemons and all their high fashion from.
We no longer have a garment district.
I remember as a kid my parents taking me into the City (NYC) on weekends for shopping.
I remember the racks and racks of clothes.
There will have to be some kind of a middle ground reached re: manufacturing.
But otherwise I agree.
They know the US is what holds up the world, much like Atlas.
Oh yeah. I totally agree on a middle ground which is what PDT is after. I just get so aggravated at the rest of the world with their complacency with things as they are while our middle America is decimated. That’s why I said it is so not that simple. Just acting out I guess. 😂
What would John Galt do??
What Dan said above!
Atlas shrugged.
The racks of clothes are behind windows with steel bars on them and items have security cables running thru them.
That is likely because Morality is neither taught, nor demonstrated, in (primarily so) The Home. (Definitely not in Government or Media).
I remember, as a kid, doing the same thing, except it was in San Franciso!
Me, too–I was a kid in the late 40s/early 50s. Our go-to big towns were Williston, ND (about 50 miles) and Sidney, MT (about about 40 miles).
The amazing stores I looked forward to visiting were Monkey Wards, J. C. Penney, and Sears! Good times. I believe my mother and I were in the Monkey Wards store in Williston when I learned one of my first financial lessons.
I saw a blouse or a skirt that I really wanted and, unusually, made a direct request to her to buy it for me. She quietly said, “Oh, we don’t have money for that today.” My equally quiet return point was, “But, Mom, you have checks in your purse!” Then she explained that we could not use the checks unless we had money in the bank.
Funny, same exact experience here! As soon as she was able, Mom set me up with a little checking account at our local bank. 🙂
When I earned a little money, she’d take me to the bank, and taught me how to balance a checkbook. That early education set me up to achieve high scores and a appreciation of higher math. Math is truth.
Younger generations have been robbed of this education with debit cards, online banking, and direct deposit. While convenient, many have lost the ability to read or write longhand numbers, and basic math skills are horrible.
“Math is truth”. Repeat!
No matter one’s age, race, religion, politics, or nationality – math is the one non-subjective universal language we all share.
No wonder so many work to manipulate numbers.
I was heartbroken when Sears went out of business – they had everything – all backed up with guarantees.
The clothing Vietnam manufactures for Walmart will continue to be on its way to our local stores – possibly costing less.
The re-alignment of nations is priceless….most likely for the benefit of all.
All those clothes end up in a huge mountain in South America.
SilverSunday: My family’s livelihood, from its arrival at Ellis Island until the passing of my father (a span of about 110 years), revolved around selling woolens and textiles and making garments, first, on the Lower East Side, and then, in the Garment District.
Whenever my father felt like returning to our roots, he would take me to the Lower East side to wander through the streets and peruse the goods in all the little clothing stores and suit manufacturers. Some store signage still sported Yiddish. We’d also hit China town, to oggle at the ducks hanging in the windows, and visit Little Italy, which was still authentically Italian. Then, we would go to Katz’s Deli for a pastrami sandwich.
I remember the clothing, shoe and hat manufacturers on Washington Avenue, St. Louis 1962.
Also, pre K Mart, Wal Mart, every metro area had a regional discount department store.
Hills, Rose’s (still around) , Ontario, Bargain Barn, Heck’s.
“Atlas Shrugged” – Ayn Rand: “I set out to show how desperately the world needs prime movers, and how viciously it treats them.”
Not what PDJT is after.
Exactly…bill
Repeated for emphasis: “We could drop out of NATO and tell the UN to find another home.”
The UN has two other homes already; one in Vienna and the other in Kenya (can’t recall just now the city) so they can take their attitudes and belligerence and leave us alone. That NYC building would make one heck of a nice American veterans home.
Rumor control says the UN Building has occult symbolism built into it. If so, we would be better off tearing it down and creating a new park for everyone to enjoy…..not a lot of open space in that city.
Thought I read that the land reverts to the Rockefeller trust.
Had a “National Lampoon” magazine with an article, about how the the US should abandon the UN building to the New York gangs. Came out in the eighties. The magazine was titled I think ” Lets get it up”. Another article how our Navy acted like a pirate force. Forty years ago.
Nice idea, very nice! 👍
Western Europe allowed themselves to be invaded by Muslims to the point that they can pray in the streets but Christians cannot. Anti white speech and behavior is allowed but anti Muslim speech is hate speech.
Western Europe has already destroyed. Why we should have to have American sons and daughters fight and die for them when they allowed a foreign army to walk in and take over without a shot?
I had a routine medical exam yesterday. I thought it was interesting that two out of the three people I spoke with who worked at the clinic had British accents. This was in north central Illinois. perhaps many are fleeing the UK as things get worse there.
They tend to bring their insanity with them just like democrats when they move from state to state.
The only thing that comes to mind is the EU funded AirBus aircraft. I was initially against domestic airlines buying AirBus, but no after flying them an Boeing, I must say that the AirBus is a nicer aircraft. Fly by wire gives me the shivers though…
America has allowed far too many Muslims in and will eventually pay the same price as the EU. Take a real good hard look at the demographics of America as it is today. The backbone of America has been changed.
Correct. At the current parameters and population distributions, takeover is a mathematical certainty.
Civilizational suicide.
Paterson NJ has already declared itself Little Palestine. New Jersey’s First Islamic City: Muslim Politicians Seize Power in Paterson, Declare It ‘The Capital of Palestine in America,’ Raise Islamic Flags, and Advance Sharia (Video) – RAIR
I grew up in NC but was born in Paterson. Thanks Mom and Dad for moving!
Re changing of backbone of America. On Facebook this morning is a video of teens rabble rousing in the streets of Kirkwood in St. Louis. I always knew Kirkwood to be an area of [white] families, a bedroom community to St. Louis. Either that is no longer the case or the rabble rousers were there causing trouble. I have also seen videos of them at intersections in the city doing the speeding cars in circle, surrounded by teens with their cameras all going, kids in the careening cars sitting in the windows. Again, I’m glad I’m old. Things have changed way too much.
And not for the good.
BMW makes some of the finest sedans and coupes on the market. Up until 2010 ish their 3 series was super nice. I had serval that I dove one over 170,000 miles. Keeping a car that long is an investment. They handle very well. Plenty of power. the last BMW 328it wagon I had I loved till the day I sold it for a Toyota.
Something changed when they tried to increase the gas mileage and drop the in line 6 cylinder motor. Plus all the electronics started making them feel like a Honda.
Other than Germany makes pretty nice cars. Mostly for the upper middle class. But a lot of cars are in that same price range. Tariffs are going to kill the car makers in the long fun VW had their diesel scam and cost them $billons. I cannot think of a product from the EU I would miss.
Humpty Dumpty: I went through my Saab and BMW period. I loved the Saab 900 S. Everything I wanted, very practical and solid, and nothing more. My one BMW was fun to drive but the service costs were not reasonable.
Bring back the Volvo 240 wagon, with more horsepower, the same room inside, and
map pockets on the door that don’t disintegrate in the sun. Resurrect the 2.3 four cylinder,
update the fuel injection.
Had a 740 Turbo wagon. The fun was Turbo. The repairs were turbo. Ran like a scalded
cat, handled great. Cost like the national debt when it broke. Loved it, when it was running.
What does Europe have that we can’t live without?
Reverse the Question.
What does the US have that Europe can’t live without? Peace.
Although there seems plenty of turmoil in the US at the moment Trumps Objective is Peace. Europe, or, more specifically those that run Europe visibly and invisibly do not want peace for the Peoples of Europe. The Globalists want friction, they need friction; for their agenda.
At some point no-one, no leader, no Statesman, installed or Elected upon this Planet wherever they may be, on whatever Continent will be able to say “it does not affect me”.
The Storm will spread WW, this one can be assured, 🙂
It’s not so much that they don’t want peace for their soon to be peasant class.
It’s that they want Russian spoils for themselves first.
Bingo. Peace is the goal.
Wisconsin can’t make quality Parmesan, Romano, and Asiago cheese.
Can’t think of much else worth mentioning.
I stocked up on some French jam at $6 a jar. When I run out I’ll buy it for $8. (Or maybe switch to Smuckers) The horror!
Excellent
MAGA Fabulous!!
Bring it.
Let’s Go!!
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There is a meme making its way around showing a graph of the last 10 years of DOW. In it, 2022-2023 dip is shown as safe, no problems. Today’s little dip is shown as Panic! The entire global media is pathetic and stirring up all sorts of panic among the ignorants. Propaganda, fear, uncertainty. Appreciate Sundance and others calming the waters with truth and smart analysis. Love Trump.
Thursday and Friday were historically bad days for the market/indices. There is no other way to describe what happened. Depending on the index, dropping 11%-14% in two days is a historical move. It’s wasn’t a minor dip. It was a coordinated attack that has left blood in the street. Real damage was done.
Pause. Take a breath. Review how the market reacted to the tariffs in DJT1 admin… this attack was just quicker and steeper. How deep will it cut? 40%? 50%? As the cliche goes… the market takes the escalator on the way up and the elevator on the way down.
Some have predicted a financial Armageddon. People who are normally logical and level-headed are panicking and blaming tariffs. I call it opportunity. The markets are predictable. I’ve been 100% cash for a couple of weeks. Sit and wait.
It’s felt like to me this market needed to be corrected though.
They’ve been propped up from QE and over valuation of these big dog companies for quite awhile.
I agree that it was long overdue. They were able to manipulate the market long enough to make Biden look good to the low-infos until after the election. Now Powell will dump it all on Trump. I’m sure Trump is fully aware of the game they are playing.
“The markets are predictable”.
Over what timeframe? With what accuracy/precision? Where can I sign up for the magic people who know the future beyond the historic average rate?
An assumption that eventually cost Long Term Capital Management billions.
Your first instinct is to belittle and demean. Okay… there is always those who buy the propaganda markets are efficient. They are not (see CAPM). Have a coke and a smile…
How many of the darlings of the market are dependent upon offshored Mfg. and or parts.
It was also the biggest inflow day in over a decade for retail investors. It seems the Big Money wanted chaos and blood in the streets and the everyday investors were smart and bought the blood in the streets, which is what you do if you want to make money and are patient. 11-14%… Pffft, that’s an average Tuesday in the crypto market, lol.
It’s not a loss unless sold.
I suspect smart investors will hold, weather the brief storm, and in the end will be glad they did.
The voice of calm reason ! Thank you Betsy !
Not only hold, but BUY, BUY, BUY!!
I would be patient. The mix of companies in mutual funds is probably going to shuffle around a bit. eg maybe fewer pharma and financial companies, more manufacturing. Hard to say right now because it’s probably a lot of panic selling and people moving into safe harbor assets.
People who keep their heads will be fine. And the sell off is a good reminder to older Americans (like me!) that you need to adjust your funds as you get older to focus less on growth and more on stability and income generation.
The thing that will take time is the shift in labor. We can’t be a country that sells coffee to each other and writes regulations on everyone else.
The big shift that is coming is the Government contribution to the GDP equation. If Trump and Congress can lock in the DOGE cuts and manpower reductions (critical), and cut the Federal Courts standing in the way, there will be a massive nationwide shift from government employment to productive employment. That will also take time.
Before yesterday my mining based portfolio was up 32% YTD.
I’m betting on collapse of the financial system and the businesses that will make the real money.
True that. It is, however, a tracked loss in terms of market value – wealth effect.
There is always risk involved in equity markets.
All assets have become so financialized that is has become progressively more difficult to determine true “market price”. One of the line items on PDJTs “fix it” list one suspects.
Of course.
Equity markets are casinos, and 401ks especially are susceptible. Especially if one is near that time when starting to or are forced to take distributions. Timing is all. I get all of that.
Many smarter than I have been saying for a long time a shake out was coming. And needed to come. Such are the cycles which are intrinsic in the financial world.
I remember well the day Bear Stearns collapsed and for a long time after would wake up to triple digit losses day after day for weeks. The “wealth” that was lost…and after it was straight up.
My own canny father gave me some very good advise when I was young…never invest more than you can stand to lose. His words ring in my head to this day.
Warren Buffet has been selling off stuff for quite some time. He’s sitting on lots of cash.
I’d watch his moves….they will be broadcast.
I’ve been watching him, too.
Cash, cash, cash. Waiting, waiting, waiiting.
Tightly sealed mason jars are a good place for your cash especially if you have a yard you can bury them in. Call me old fashioned. The stock market isn’t your friend.
We simply attempt to be fearful when others are greedy and to be greedy only when others are fearful.
Warren Buffet.
Might not be just US bank dollars though, although much may be sidelined.
Could be domestic property, foreign property where the conversion rate is strong (Brz, Arg), gold & other metals, etc.
Always a pleasure reading your posts!
My concern these last many years is how manipulated markets have become. It wasn’t a happenstance that several JP Morgan folks were sentenced to jail terms a year or so ago for manipulating gold futures.
How kind you are, phillip. Thank you.
Manipulated…yes. Just as are government statistics which give a false picture of where this country has been for a long time. But in the end reality always takes over, right? The trick is to guess when that will be; and so far, I’ve never seen anyone do it.
I’d forgotten about the JPM people…don’t know why they’d even try. The price is too high.
The past few days has been the beacon of why the D-rats tax on unrealized profits is so bad.
Well, if they allowed unrealized losses to be included……
Absofrigginlutely!
Btw….I never have seen any print on their part of how/whether unrealized losses would be deductible; or, what date would be chosen for the assessment.
Yes!!! Just don’t look at the numbers for a few weeks unless you are shopping for some stocks that are on sale right now. The media and Never Trumpers are pushing the hysteria. The media gets views and the NTs continue their lies.
Saw an hysterical Daily Mail story with outsized headline about how one of President Trump’s “most ardent” supporters had abandoned him after the last two days’ stock market meltdown.
Who was it, I hear you asking?
Ben Shapiro.
I mean…
Ardent.. I do not think that word means what they think it means.. 😂
They aren’t the brightest, sis 😁👍🏻
Even commenters were eye rolling.
Lol…Ben Shapiro…pftt!
Shapiro is like Jim Cramer of CNN. Never right about anything.
Cramer is bloviating again, too. When doee he not…
This propaganda is aimed at MAGA to cause us to leave the path we are on, stop supporting Trump.
This weekend’s “Expressions of violent Love” all over the country are aimed to reinforce this.
This is a great test for us….Trump told us there will be bumps and the Administration is out in force to speak facts.
It is also true that it’s only a un-realized gain until you sell.
The stock market is nothing more , (for us little guys), than a game of musical chairs & steal the bacon.
And here are those Dems/Socialists/other haters of “wealth” (except their own) who have been pushing for a “Wealth Tax”, one of the two most insidious, immoral taxes ever devised…the other being Inheritance Tax. Three, if you count Property Tax, which I do.
Unrealized gain…phooey.
Dems/Socialists/other haters of “wealth”….
Yes! They only rob us because they can’t steal from those who don’t have anything and are too lazy to earn or create anything themselves.
Me, I have to get busy this morning as I have work calling that won’t get done if I don’t do it-
Working so that we can sustain ourselves and families and saving with the expectation of a reasonable interest rate return….not exorbitant… used to be virtues.
Saving, especially for those of us unwilling to shoulder the inherent risk of gambling in the Wall Street casino and who don’t wish to have sleepless nights worrying that in a flash we could lose what we’ve worked so hard for.
After 2008, that expectation was demolished. Zero (negative) rates placed us in the position of either entering an unstable, capricious market or tightening our belts. We chose the latter. And brother!! Many notches over…
And here, right on schedule is President Trump wanting modest interest rates historically speaking (Jimmy Carter’s double digit ones anybody who remembers?) to drop. I am as MAGA as they come.
But we are preparing.
God go with you, Bigdog, in your honest endeavours.
Go buy a Tesla or even a Ford or Chevy.
Betsy: That’s what I am doing–nothing.
Pull in your sails and wait for the next wind to come, bill.
Prudent.
The October 19, 1987 crash caused the single biggest correction in the U.S. stock market ever, 22.6%. Most people held on to their stocks, and the markets had readjusted to neutral within a year, a very orderly recovery. I have been 1/3 in cash for at least 2 years, but bought 1/4 positions in the last half hour of trading yesterday, and plan to buy more in each of the next 3 days if they continue to go down. What the President is doing is extraordinary, makes perfect sense , and I support him all the way. A glorious light at the end of the tunnel!
Patience is a virtue. It helps to be thoughtful and discerning.
Not all one’s eggs in one basket is advisable I have always thought. Sounds as if you’re comfortable with your allocations, ready to pivot when the time comes…which it will.
How right you are.
President Trump confidently told an arrogant Wall Street insider in a recent interview forum that this pompous WS and his cronies were wrong and had been always wrong when they said tariffs would not work.
Decades of economic and financial war against America (and those who keep her running) by elitist insiders are coming to an end.
Patience, MAGA Grasshoppers!
The times, they are a’changin’…for the better.
Just like the Covid crash
Check out where that line was in the unseen pre 2021 years.
Correct. There’s a good article on the federalist. If one is embroiled with the market dip & the incessant anxiety produced by the news cycle; go touch some grass. Take a walk. Enjoy the simple things in life. I would add alone time with family and of course the Creator.
The meme was posted last night on “The Last Refuge2 ” X account.
FUD fear, uncertainty, doubt.
Microsoft used it Bigly against Netscape and Linux.
I would guess that it was developed by a military
The lack of support for President Trump’s bold tariff plan by the republicans is infuriating. Not enough of these spineless rinos possess the patriotic fortitude to stand behind our VSGPDJT and help ease the fear and uncertainty of the American people. With the markets down and the media stoking Great Depression lies, the country needs some republican solidarity and lots of vocal leadership and support for our president’s initiative. Have faith in the plan!
I think the spineless RINO’s and establishment GOP are getting some kind of kickback or under the table payments for their trade policies that screw the US. Thus the Republicans are with the Democrats against Trump’s tariffs. Money not patriotic fortitude it their issue.
Senate Passes Resolution Terminating Tariffs Against Canada – breitbart
Schumer: Republicans Seem Willing to ‘Buck Donald Trump’ on Tariff Power – breitbart
Donors are irate. Livid. It’s not kickbacks, it’s the threats to stop donating and lining their pockets if something isn’t done to stop DJT. Now, there is conflict with their insulated circles. Division is stirring. Cracks are forming. Eventually they will be fully exposed and their “house” will soon be divided and fall. It’s actually brilliant.
They won’t come close to overriding the coming veto.
Seem and succeed are two different matters.
There’s trade space in all of this (to include unreleased information). This is an area where PDJT is at his best.
Wow! A senate resolution. What a bunch of useless wankers, and useless wanker wannabes.
Yea but if the house also fails, can they override a pocket veto?
I’m sorry, but… ya think?
Without a doubt in my mind and for about 20years now
“Tariffs, to protect manufacturers and jobs, were the Republican Party’s path to power and prosperity in the 19th and 20th centuries, before the rise of the Rockefeller Eastern liberal establishment and its embrace of the British-bred heresy of unfettered free trade.” Pat Buchanan
The great Pat Buchanan laid the intellectual foundation for America First foreign policy. Pat was always unwavering in his commitment to conservative populist principles. MAGA 🇺🇸
Correction, lol……. IS always unwavering in his commitment….
Agree , so either their lack of foresight is alarming or we are upsetting certain person’s apple cart ? Here’s hoping this action will have multiple benefits ; PDJT probably thought of this before implementing. The shortcut to weeding out bad actors is letting them self identify . Then all he has to do is excise .
They will bend – save for the 2-3 recidivists.
RINOs and democrats have gotten used to the idea of receiving generational money (bribes) from PACs and do not want it to stop. How else can a person achieve such wealth in a very short time period?
A good example is Jason Smith MO Chair of the House Ways and Means Committee
Net Worth 2018 5,490
Net Worth 2022 1,786,970
Chairman Smith’s Top Priority is Delivering for Working Families, Farmers, and Small Businesses
hah!
Like looking at snakes writhing in pain after gasoline and a match thrown at them.
Be still in prayer ,
Have FAITH over Fear ,
Our lord and saviour Jesus Christ is in control ✝️🙏
God bless America
With Gods speed to
MAGA
Tariffs and economic cleansing should have been done in 2008.
And who created the conditions for this? The liberals/rhinos with their unending debt spending over the last 35 years. In addition to “free” trade policy that was only free for the other side at the expense of the American worker. Unions(dem control group) didn’t help either.
I agree with everything you’re saying Dicky.
From what DOGE is uncovering , it makes me wonder how much of the
” debt spending ”
Was actually THEFT disguised as debt spending ? . Just read about a director of a food bank resigning after they questioned her $721,000 a year salary. Sick . How much of our 36 trillion debt is actually theft ?
I think it’s much higher than any of us can imagine . Sadly
Yes , spot on !
Yes, and even more interesting is said food bank director was working for Democratic Senator Amy Klobachar (MN) before she moved to the food bank. Incestuous (sp) doesn’t begin to describe it. MN is run by the democrats and needs its own state version of DOGE to root out all corrupt spending being directed to NGOs like Second Harvest Heatland (the “food bank” in question).
They’re harvesting all right. The crop seems to be our money.
Jeff: Food bank, indeed. Emphasis on “bank.”
Food banks, if the ideology is true, should have NO “paid” positions.
They called it free trade; it certainly was NOT fair.
Free(loaders) Trade.
🙌
‘ The World Economic Forum (Build Back Better) model no longer views the USA as an ally. ‘
Some say that the WEF is a facade creating misdirection, the real Controllers are veiled.
And to say those Controllers ever viewed the USA as an ally is a oversimplification.
Where the reality is that the Controllers see neither allies nor enemies, only resources to be manipulated and exploited.
Including human resources.
This view fits the facts.
Using the USA as a building crane to erect their global government.
Always using someone else’s resources, blood, sweat and tears.
Thirteen families. And yes, their names are veiled.
Being that I deal in powerline industry, I have my eyes on GE, they were quick to move transformer manufacturing to Mexico years ago to take advantage of cheap labor and cheap steel.
When the Shreveport Louisiana plant starts to make their ProLec transformer again in United States, it means the GE company has bent the knee, to America.
If you deal with a lot of pole mounted transformers you know the problems.
A simple question to ask yourselves, why would Europe go to these drastic measures?
Because, they have been screwing the American people for all these years, and it has made the Elites of the EU rich.
This is the only reason. Our Lion the President of the United States Donald J Trump knows it. He is fighting for Main Street America, not the Globalist.
EU has been headed to economic decline for years: been predicted for a long time; whether tariffs are in place or not.
PDJT’s moves are accelerating the inevitable outcomes of crazy climate change policies, aging populations and debilitating social welfare policies/costs.
We can crush EU/UK with an embargo on LNG exports.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/04/richard-grennell-suggests-trump-scrapping-5-billion-us/
Why were we helping French build this LNG plant? Globalist try to hurt our industry.
I bet they lose that money
This loan doesn’t even fit the definition/mission of EXIM…..
https://www.exim.gov/about
And then Russia shuts off the gas supply.
Good Morning in America, Vietnam!
😁
I have been watching re-runs of The Apprentice and what PDJT is doing with his policies was adumbrated in his leadership skills in 2005. But PDJT now is probably DJT then, just wiser.
Many of the announced tariffs were 50% of what those countries were now charging us!
It bears repeating: “every country charges tariffs.” Our problem is that we were paying tariffs but not imposing them. We were chasing the vain goal of a “service-based economy” until the tiny Ukraine war taught us that we couldn’t manufacture weapons – and Russia could and did.
That’s not the entire story – though it is the most publicized angle.
The tariffs are also purposed to address designated national security interests (e.g., critical industries, fetanyl).
The tariffs are also purposed to address other fair trade objectives (e.g., intellectual property theft, currency manipulation, subsidies, capital flow controls).
Your statements are entirely true. My key point was simply that, “tariffs are nothing new.”
In fact – one of the very first bills that President Washington signed was a tariff bill, designed to support the development of domestic manufacturing. Which, of course, it did.
Every nation is a fool who does not look out for itself, and its own autonomy and sovereignty, first. Because, let’s face it: “no one else on earth ever will – and why on earth should they?” If you’re not paying proper attention to your own card game, you deserve to lose it.
Thumbs up!
My only caveat is that isolationism, at least in my read of history, is not the way to go. There are plenty venues where collaboration and mutual support factor in very important ways. Per PDJT’s philosophy (my opinion), these interactions need to be fair and mutually advantageous.
Every nation is a fool who does not look out for itself, and its own autonomy and sovereignty – edited to “Every government that does not look out for its people’s……..is led by fools and is bound to be voted out of office or replaced.”
Interesting that you say that Trump already knew, as far back as 2020, that the EU and Brits (Davos) have been the enemy all along. Must be why the batflu was invoked when it was. They saw him coming.
Most of us thought China was the big threat at the time, and they did seem to go along with the NWO crew as long as it suited their purposes, but we saw the split when Soros labeled them “the enemy” a few years back. Now, we still have the neocons here trying to go after Russia and China, in support of Euroweenies. This means that Trump is only giving them enough rope to hang themselves but is not about to go to war in support of the old globalist project.
Alex Mercouris was making the point that African tariffs are much higher than South America, suggesting that Trump wants to solidify the Americas as a unified system and that Africa is less on the radar or even considered part of a new global order in which Russia and China are the primary counterbalances.
That would work to protect the Canal.
Delay. Disrupt. Divide. That’s the play.
Over the next 6–12 months, globalists will do everything they can to stall Trump’s trade reset. They can’t stop it head-on, so they’ll slow it down just enough to let rigged election cycles or bureaucratic drag kill the momentum.
I. Trump’s strategy centers on bilateral trade agreements—quick, direct deals with countries like Vietnam, Kenya, Brazil, and the Philippines that bypass the old multilateral system. If even a few of these deals lock in, the globalist model begins to fracture. To stop it, globalists will hit these countries with financial pressure, credit downgrades, ESG roadblocks, and targeted aid offers to steer them away. If that fails, expect engineered scandals, protests, legal threats, and political targeting to blow up the deals before they finalize.
II. The EU is the hub. Brussels will ramp up regulations—AI, climate, data privacy—to box out U.S. companies unless they bend to globalist rules. EU firms will “pause” U.S. investments, and their envoys will flood Asia, Africa, and Latin America with green funding offers to keep nations tied to the multilateral system and away from Trump’s bilateral deals. It’s not diplomacy—it’s delay dressed up.
III. The IMF and World Bank will squeeze with money. Countries that avoid U.S. deals will get easier loans, better debt terms, and ESG perks. Those that sign with Trump? Suddenly they’re “unstable,” downgraded, and locked out of capital markets. Quiet pressure, real cost.
The chaos will look organic—but it won’t be. Around every Trump-aligned deal, expect scandals, legal threats, protests, media storms, and WTO noise. Leaders who lean toward Trump will be isolated, pressured, and targeted politically. It’s all about buying time and keeping the world in a holding pattern.
Because if even a few bilateral deals go through, the post-WWII model cracks—and they know it.
Wow, you’re smart
Good summary post.
I disagree on the projected outcome however. Europe has been on a self-destructive course REGARDLESS of USA policies.
The reciprocal strategy is a tried and true action plan: setting up and maintaining a global financial system reset against the USA will prove difficult to achieve. There are always incentives for break-away countries to cut their bilateral deals to benefit from the trade foresaken by others. It’s already happening. Then there is the matter that at the end of the day, no other countries can approach the size, efficiency and (one continues to hope) stability of US capital markets.
Appreciate the thoughtful take—and you’re right, Europe’s decline isn’t made in America. They’ve been digging that hole for a while. But what makes this different now is that the U.S. isn’t offering to pull them out anymore. That shift—from backstop to competitor—is what forces the global realignment.
You’re also right that a full-scale anti-U.S. financial system reset is unlikely. But they don’t need to replace the U.S.—they just need to stall it long enough to preserve their own networks. That’s where the lawfare, ESG leverage, and multilateral noise come in.
And yes—breakaway countries will cut deals. That’s the weakness in the globalist blockade. But they’ll try to slow those deals down, choke them with regulation, or pressure them through credit channels. We’re watching that friction unfold in real time.
U.S. capital markets still dominate—but that’s exactly why the fight is happening there. No one’s walking away from them… but plenty are trying to control who gets access, and on what terms.
As an example the billion dollar fine they want to impose on Elon.
https://patriots.win/p/19Ax2YYEQU/why-are-we-protecting-their-ship/c talking of esg.read this b.s. sounds like time for all u.s. companies to leave the EU.
LOL
If you can see this, so could Trump.
Relax.
Agree. Trump’s put together the best minds in the world. Musk, Lutnick, Bessent, & Navarro to name a few.
Anything new or just more of the wokey retards standard operating procedures?
Praise GOD!!! Fight! Fight! Fight!
SD,
Where do pharmaceuticals fit in withnall of this? It is a major weak spot for the U.S. as we don’t manufacture many. A majority of our medications come from China, India and parts of the EU. As far as India, they get many of the compounds needed to manufacturer from China.
This has always been a weak spot for the U.S.
I would be interested in your thoughts on this topic.
Excellent question.
Part of the larger conflict over major restructuring needed in healthcare overall. Not my area of expertise (except s a customer these last few years!). RFK Jr seems to be headed in the right direction.
Not, obviously, speaking for SD.
It’s a good thing but unfortunately Vietnam can’t afford to buy much from the US. It will take some economic reality before some conclude they need to come to the negotiating table.
But is starts a trend.
Demonstrates a paradigm shift – Nation first.
Hope someone mentioned Klaus announced a couple days ago he is stepping down from WEF soon.
Tariffs! /s
The world celebrates.
that guy looks like he hung around with the wrong crowd a LONG time
He’s one in a long list of of folks who fall on the negative side of the common humanity balance sheet.
He will still be in place for two years, but who will take his place? Perhaps someone with even more ill intent then he. We’ll see.
You’ve got this, Mr. President.
But, but Trump is stooopid and don’t know nuttin.
I think in Term 1 he know there was gonna be people try to attack the agenda but underestimated how far they would go — Leticia, Jack and the ATL lady.
I wonder what he knows/knew about Rubio to get him to straighten out?
He said during the 2024 campaign that he now knows who everyone is in DC but didn’t going into and during Term 1.
I’m going live my best life and know that the economy will be humming in 18 to 24 months.
The problem the Dems face in 2028 is they are saying this stuff won’t work, but when it does what’s their play?
Their play will still be Tax the Rich, Benefits to People Who Refuse to Work, AID to foreign nations (with a bit of skim off of the top), People of Color, Free College, Climate Change, Oil/Gas is Bad, Big Pharma is Great!, Trannies and other deviants are good, and AOC is their next Great Candidate.
Please, the (lady) in Atl was not a lady. ~Fanny Willis..
A house divided cannot stand. Let one EU country break away for a deal and their toast.
That is what I see happening. Plus, companies within these countries can choose to open factories/businesses within the USA and avoid the tariffs. They may eventually shut down in Europe or keep their operations running in Europe and the USA.
You can’t have them, devil, in Jesus’ Name!
Psalm 127
3
Look, children are a gift of the Lord,
and the fruit of the womb is a reward.
4
As arrows in the hand of a mighty warrior,
so are the children of one’s youth.
5
Happy is the man
who has his quiver full of them;
he shall not be ashamed
when he speaks with the enemies at the gate.
“Better to have a millstone hung around your neck and drown in the sea than to harm one of these my little ones” Yeshua’shai
https://notthebee.com/article/people-have-discovered-a-magical-line-that-runs-through-america-where-people-believe-in-jesus-have-babies-dont-kill-themselves-and–endure-high-wind-speeds
— Hope!
Amen!
My apologies I dropped this in the wrong thread, but in a way it still fits because through the brainwashing of the Public-Marxist schools, the kids do not know the real history of Tariffs in America and how our founders and later statesman used them effectively to make America what it once was before the Council On Foreign Relations decided to destroy it with their Bush/Clinton/Obama traitorous administrations. Perfect example of the Uniparty HD political system they installed.
Trilateral Commission Carter is a bit separated because he publicly said he was going to vote for then candidate Donald J Trump before he was ordered to not say that and endorse the CFR traitor criminal Hillary.
BARF
Religious leaders have said the same thing for millennium.
man that guy is ugly
Sundance thank you very much for the explanation. I get the big picture now, God bless CTH.
Watching the glowbullists agenda crumble is as much fun as watching the democrats downfall. Long live MAGA.
Time to disband NATO….. if the UE weasels want defense let them defend themselves…
We burst the Communism boil when the Soviet system collapsed…..
But now, we need to deal with the socialist rash left behind….
It’s long past time to snuff it out…
NO MERCY!
When their Liberal Lunatic Soviet Project was collapsed by the Russian Orthodox Christian patriots, NATO had to reinvent and retool itself which they did by manufacturing the Bosnian,Croatian,Kosovo wars. They tried to do it to what is now N Macedonia, but the Macedonian military effectively and quickly neutralized the CIA retooled Kosovo Liberation Army Terrorists calling themselves the National Liberation Army.
This was after Council On Foreign Relations GHWB’s sec of state Baker told Gorbachev that NATO would not expand “One inch Eastward”
Orthodox Christian Russia should be our friend and ally. Our real enemies are the WEF/EU/UN/NATO/London externally & a long list of internal enemies many of which control the Uniparty in Congress & bureaucracies.
Respect to you as Marine. Marines in my family and I have a cousin in Airborne deployed atm
Been saying the impossible can happen, Russia 51’st state, Canada 52nd
“Retired USMC?” Thank you for your service.
Ain’t I been sayin it?,…
Well, ain’t I?
SEE THE WHOLE BOARD.
You can not understand what President Trump is doing, if you view tariffs in isolatiin, or as just being about Trade.
Peace is the prize, and there can be no peace, unless/until the warmonger Globulusts are driven from power, which means regimve change in the Gummints of the WEF Nations.
They are the ones egging on Zman, and stirring up trouble in the ME, with their insistence on two-State solution,…
However, instead of expropriating billions to run thru USAID, to fund color revolutions, with the process controlled by unelectef beurocrats, PDJT can encourage regime change using tariffs…as the peoples of Europe see their ‘generous’ social programs melt away due to “austerity measures” and see OTHER countries that don’t fight this “trade war” prospering, they will vote the sunsabitches out.
Regime change, that doesn’t COST us, it PAYS us, lol.
And as always, with Peace as the prize…
“Countries will surge in opposition, fail, then attempt to refoot and realign, then surge again and fail again.”
(1) fail
(2) reboot
(3) surge
(4) fail
It is an economic war that some Americans have inlisted in, some drafted snd some “draft dogeing”
President Trump is Trying to Make Ameruca Great Again fighting those in congress and elsewhere that profit from the economic staus quo kickback scam schemes.
“Draft DOGEing?” … 🤡
I love Trump.
I sleep better under the Trump presidency.
Thanks to Sundance for being on top of all the details so that I can understand the good that is being done.
Honestly, without Trump, this country was doomed to become a third world country. Now there is light at the end of the tunnel.
Thank you President Trump.
Thank you President Trump andPraise GOD Almighty!!!
Praise GOD!!! Fight! Fight! Fight!
europe has ended any cohesion they may have had with americans when they embraced censorship and socialism. like vance said to them, you can’t do a thing for us and we can’t do a thing for you.
This is the Donald Trump I came to be intrigued by, and later admire, so many years ago. He is a brilliant business strategist, has a keen focus on the best outcome for AMERICA, and has the ‘nads to stare them all in the face and simply state “that’s how it’s going to be, now Shoo”.. 😂
Then he goes to lunch and deals with something else on the world stage with equal intelligence, focus and ease.
Thank you President Trump. Thank you God, for President Trump. 🙏👍❤️
Really wish Japan would do that. I know they’re rich, but…
“…. President Donald Trump is a master at the big picture stuff.”
JMO.
Objective: TOTAL EXIT, ….. protecting America’s eastern flank, across the pond, ….. while saving Europe from the globalists in the EU and the dangerous, non-national hordes who have been allowed to invade their countries.
As the U-crane war winds down and hostilities with Russia become a thing of the past, be on the lookout for the REPURPOSING OF NATO.
The USA isn’t going to get out of “2025” NATO …… instead, with the aim towards securing the eastern flank of MAGA / America First. … President Trump will use his MAGA skills to turn the resources of the multi-country NATO defense force from mainly concentrating on Russia, to concentrating on the European’s (not EU) new enemy within their walls, the dangerous, non-nationals who have been allowed to invade their countries.
“The Saving of Europe from the EU”, aka The REPURPOSING OF NATO towards their real enemy, on the European’s own nickel. President Trump to provide the ideas and catalyst to make it happen.
America’s expelling of the illegals out of its borders will be an example of what needs to be done in Europe to expel all of the dangerous, non-nationals out of their countries.
NATO (funded mainly by the Europeans) will be “repurposed” from defending against Russia to deporting the hordes of dangerous non-nationals who have been let into Europe’s borders, much like biden’s treacherous open borders let in 26,000,00 non-nationals into the USA.
The demand for expulsion, following the example of President Trump’s mass deportation of America’s invaders, will come from the citizens of each country through NATO, not from their leaders.
Along with using NATO to deport the non-nationals, the citizens will vote out the crop of globalist / communist leaders who got them into the EU mess in the first place, aka America’s 11/5/24 election.
TOTAL EXIT, coming to the European countries as the dangerous hordes are driven out of each European country (including Ireland) and the people vote in MEGA politicians, Make-Europe-Great-Again politicians. It will take a team effort by the free-people of Europe led by President Trump / America, through the repurposed NATO ….. BIG Picture Stuff.
BREXIT was just a trial run.
EU, ….. destined for the ash pile of globalist / communist failures, on President Trump’s watch. Believe it.
Now it makes sense what they did to Le Pen. Without the USA dollars, how long can these Countries survive?
If, big IF, the Communist Chinese government decide to oust their current Chairman because of China’s inability to maintain its current process of high manufacturing low consumption, expect a war, either internal to China or external, hard to guess.
China is similar to spoiled children who has parents that suddenly grow spines and say ‘no’ – the first thing they do is throw a tantrum, anything from holding their breath to the silent treatment to throwing things and destroying furniture in the house – because the child doesn’t know anything else, has never conceived of how life can be other than having it handed to them on a silver platter.
China has gone from a few centuries of pure isolationism to becoming the manufacturing go-to country of the planet, with no in-between national identity development. From Emperors to Communism, they have no other identity, except for the few citizens who have moved to other nations and seen how other nation’s let their people thrive and create their unique national identities. Something the WEF has fought valiantly to erase, thankfully they lost and don’t even know it, yet.
Patience, and let’s see how things play out.
Have noticed an uptick in positive showings of that Martine Bernier (sp?) candidate in Canada, his x posts are quite MAGA-light but still, in that direction. Think it is his area, Quebec, that was liking the idea of separation from Canada.
Are any of our Canadian Treepers noticing if that is so, on the ground, during this campaign for the next Prime Minister?
Trump is giving tax breaks to the billionaires.
It’s not working anymore!
Honestly Sundance, I truly appreciate your wisdom and the way you listen, educate yourself, explain, and in turn, educate us Treepers. I couldn’t be more thankful to open up the Treehouse newspaper every morning to receive your information.
Have a wonderful weekend.
It’s been a tariff-ic week with many more to come!
So what is the ultimate goal? Is it true free trade where these countries drop their tariffs? Or are these tariffs going to stay on in order to bring industry back to the US? I think the lack of clarity is what is making people go nutty. And maybe that is part of the negotiation tactic. I suppose you aren’t supposed to show your hand. Maybe it is a hybrid of both? As a libertarian true free trade is always what we want. No government intervention. What is the answer here?
** Another possibility I’ve heard is the tariffs are going to stay in order to replace the income tax. What is the ultimate goal, what is the best case scenario?
No free trade is not what we want .
If you support free trade then You also support free migration of people. Only truly ignorant people try and argue otherwise.
Trump spent 2024 on the campaign trail telling us exactly what he is going to do: Replace the federal income tax with tariffs, unleash cheap American energy, and rebuild American manufacturing. The only people claiming there’s a “lack of clarity” are the people who refuse to listen to Trump.
I was really hoping the tariff would put an end to Vietnam flooding the US with their fake “catfish” swai, junk sold cheap to undercut US catfish farmers.
If I were Trump I would ask Pete Hegseth to create special op forces and station them at bases around the world. Their single purpose would be to target evil globalists for elimination in the event of a nuclear or similar attack. These special op teams would be activated to destroy the demonic cabal and all their minions and underlings including corporate/ government/ media/ terrorists, etc. This would end 90+% of the evil that infests and infects the people of the world.
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.
Fun to wach
Loved what Stephen Miller and someone in the Shrimp Industry had to say about the Tariffs yesterday
Stephen Miller says Americans have to understand how ‘badly’ we’ve been ripped off as a country | Fox News Video
The world has seen what working from home, when you feel like it– as a career entails. Are you making bank at cheffing from home ChefABay? These types are only looking for gullible lazy people who have neither the ability to hold a job or actually do any type of physical work, other than scarfing Twinkies and staring at screens.
Can you imagine what would happen over there if we’d just leave NATO and ‘bring our military home. That alone cripple most of the nations as they need our people for safety and money.
should our military protect countries that censor their people and support the green scam and W.E.F.? nope. vance laid it out . the E.U. is a dictatorship. they buy russian gas as they whine at us for war money.