Appearing on This Week with George Stephanopoulos, regime commander for the hard left, White House Director of the National Economic Council, Kevin Hasset, shared that, “more than 50 countries have reached out to the president to begin a negotiation.”
Despite all the media pontification to the contrary, this notation should not come as a surprise, considering how dependent many emerging nations are on access to the U.S consumer market.
The ‘taking a knee’ sequencing should be reviewed through two closely intertwined metrics. (1) The wealth of the nation; and (2) the dependency of the nation. Both metrics are closely aligned, and that will be the commonality of the first to line up to join a zero-tariff trade agreement.
More wealthy, parasitic and ideologically opposed nations will fight hard before they acquiesce. However, they will eventually acquiesce and come to terms. The wealthy nations (like EU etc.) will be the most vocal in opposition to the global trade reset; and they will also be the voices we should see strategically ignored by President Trump.
NEC Director Kevin Hassett cuts through the Stephanopoulos talking points like a ninja quokka. WATCH:
You know Stephanopoulos is outwitted when he relies upon Rand Paul to frame his narrative. lol
Regarding the Russia talking point. How is Trump supposed to calculate a tariff regime against a country we have placed under trade sanctions with a full economic embargo? There’s no current U.S. trade with Russia, deficit or otherwise, so there’s nothing to tariff.
Not gonna lie I saw a few democrats complaining that Trump didn’t tariff Russia in this and found it hilarious for the reasons pointed out in this article. These people are so indoctrinated they can’t even figure out that there’s no need to set a tariff rate on a trade of $0.00
It’s a talking point for sure. They even included North Korea. Good grief!
the trade is not zero, but thats really not the point of the admin; nor the gotcha of the little fascists trying to use it as a talking point.
they enrich our/their Uranium….for us….war/no war……
It proves that, once again, PDJT is Putin’s buddy. /////
Hi hope Putin is Trumps little buddy.!
Ya gotta laugh, globalist commies badmouthing nationalist commies. “A commie’s a commie for a’ that.”
Knowing that, Trump should have tariffed Russia at 100%. Just to yank their chains. (the talking heads)
Very well put. And, it is as simple as you have stated!!! -_-
It is amazing how standing firm and confident is effective at levels ranging from personal relationships to international diplomacy. God bless President Trump for standing up for American citizens.
Don’t worry, President Trump is implementing shock treatment, that’s exactly what a good economist would do. Just keep fighting inflation, don’t let corporate america raise prices.
Make corporate america work to keep prices down or lose their ass! – they won’t be getting subsidized this time!
They’re not going to be able to sustain monopoly prices in the environment President Trump is creating rapidly, this is our last big hurdle against the idiots.
This will be easier than the election and take less time, it will also come naturally to all of us – just only buy what’s necessary (that’s a good way to live your life anyway: “only what’s necessary”), and think out of the box to find better products at cheaper prices, and if you’re not satisfied with any of their crap use your imagination and do without.
We’re on the 5 yardline with 4 downs and we’ve got John Riggins carrying the ball! – We’re going to score! – Dig in trade warriors! – Hurrah Hurrah!
Redskins
Riggo. He was such great fun to watch.
The next E.O. ALL sport teams must go back to their original name/nicknames. Indians, devils yours,,, and all -_-
Oil in the mid $60s per barrel is your inflation killer.
Putin revenue killer also.
….. Just sayin’ 🙂
Explain how, Sundance. I’m very interested.
Russia racked gangbusters selling their dirty crude around the globe
https://energyandcleanair.org/publication/eu-imports-of-russian-fossil-fuels-in-third-year-of-invasion-surpass-financial-aid-sent-to-ukraine/
Russia’s got the oil, but still needs a good price to ship it around the world.
China & India, etc. bought lots of it, but if they can buy some of it more cheaply elsewhere, they might split the difference.
And those ruble oil receipts, helped bankroll their Ukrainian war effort.
So when USA has excess petroleum, that’s likely to reset the world price downwards also.
Simple explanation, Tom. Oil price drops, revenue for the Russkies drops.
Come on Tom, really?
The current Russian Urals crude oil** price per barrel is approximately $65.5, the lowest level since late October1. In December 2024, the average monthly price of the Urals crude oil was approximately $62 per barrel2.
At $60/bbl, Russia will have to drop their current price which reduces revenue.
** Urals oil is a reference oil brand used as a basis for pricing of the Russian export oil mixture. It is a mix of heavy sour oil of the Urals and the Volga region with light oil of Western Siberia.
Ref. https://tradingeconomics.com/commodity/urals-oil
It costs about $60/bbl for Russia to produce its oil, or at least it used to. This means Russia isn’t making as much $$ on its oil with world prices approaching $60/bbl oil, which means less $$ for Russia to pay for the war on Ukraine.
and yet So Cal gas prices continue to climb.
It’s that good old California tax they love to impose on not only the people that live there, but anyone just looking at Californification
Just wait.Philips is closing the Carson refinery by end of year. The winter blend spike in Sept/Oct is going to be really ugly.
CA will continue to import more foreign oil to make up the deficit created by the intentional shut down of as much domestic production in the state.
CARB is sitting on a 50 cents/gal carbon tax. They will be stupid enough to do it.
I see $6-$7 avg prices next winter of things don’t change.
Energy policy conceived only in a vacuum of insanity.
NatGas and electric power policy isn’t any better.
Cant wait. In other news, Starbucks has switched to paper coffee lids. Resist We Much
They are rising in the Seattle area too. Maybe the commies here (and they are numerous) are resisting.
My vote is for the Cascadia Subduction Zone.
Clean Slate for the West Coast!
Apologies to residents thereof, I’m in Spokane and would have to deal with your refugees, so, I’d be making a sacrifice too . . . 🙃
“Make corporate america work to keep prices down or lose their ass! – they won’t be getting subsidized this time!”
This is a vitally important point to make. NO MORE BAILOUTS. If a company fails to provide adequate products or services, then that company fails.
Try to support local farmers and ranchers, as well.
The more food we can raise in the USA, the better.
If prices drop precipitously due to export restrictions, we can support them by buying extra to build up the personal food storage we should all have anyway.
A Jet-powered Titan of a Redskin!
You know, Riggins was born the same year NATO was born – 1949.
Riggins retired years ago… he did his best, and knew when to get out.
NATO Should have been ‘retired’ years ago – it doesn’t know (or care) that its time has come and gone.
The Marshall plan also should have retired years ago.
Finally, DJT has made an offer that can’t be refused.
Winning!
End of comment
It is to bad that the MSM, and Democrats, can not find a way to support ANYTHING our president does. The media has to be confrontational and that is as polite as they can be and if SD did not show clips from the MSM I would have never seen it. As for the democrats all they have done is provoke violence and resort to name calling.
Our president is restructuring government for the better of the world, and those who depend on the free ride are getting a boot in the rump!
A successful Commander is sometimes the loneliest person in the world. But, that is his duty. He is not placed into his position to be “popular.” He alone must issue the orders, and be singularly accountable for them, no matter how unpleasant-to-some those orders might be. And he is, indeed, “very alone” when he does so.
“The Buck Stops Here.™”
That really doesn’t apply to President Trump. He’s a very loved President and the nation is behind him.!
Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins says what we’re all thinking.
Rollins: “Everyone, especially on your side, on the left…”
Jake Tapper: “I’m not on the left.”
Rollins: “Alright, Jake, thank you.” 😆
Jake, anyone watching this video can very clearly see that you are on the left!🤣
Saw a “lifelong Democrat, on substack, that said he did voted for Obama 1, but not 2 not vote for hillary, voted for Trump, but still considered himself a Democrat, until he watched President Trumps Joint Session Speech.
And when he saw not one Democrat cheer that little kid cop, he realised at that moment “O.M.G. I am NOT a DEMOCRAT, any more! I am a (gulp) Republican!”
My point being the TDS infected can not help themselves, as their Demons show themselves it benefits us.
I wish Kevin had asked George about the sanctions that Biden had imposed on Russia.
Kaspersky. I want it back!
“I did that”-Bribem.
Kevin is the very definition of a “Happy Warrior.” I try to do my best to emulate him.
He really is. I enjoyed his exchanges with ‘the interviewer’. It was perfect when he flipped it back to Georgie with his own gotcha question, chuckling at the same time.
Cool, calm, collected…with a smile
““more than 50 countries have reached out to the president to begin a negotiation.””
Let MSM put that into their teleprompters and try and spin that.
MSM will say the 50 countries that want to secure a trade deal with President Trump aren’t the big
economic movers and shakers.
So? You have to start to move the ship in the right direction. Little by little, bit by bit change happens. The little guys will have access to the American market while the big guys languish on the sidelines.
Yeah, Great Britain isn’t that great, as they have already publically admitted Globullisim is dead, and they wanna do a deal.
Yep, not to mention India with nearly a billion people!🙄
“MSM will say the 50 countries that want to secure a trade deal with President Trump aren’t the big
economic movers and shakers.”
My reply – Maybe not, but they are certainly governed by smarter leaders.
50 is a Whole Lot of ‘little guys’.
They get to expand their market penetration in the USA while the so-called
‘Big Guys’ lose theirs.
Couldn’t happen to a nicer group of ‘Guys!
🤣
A man who says what he means and means what he says. Can we say “Daddy’s home?”.
Sure
🙂
They are apoplectic because they are not used to truth.
They are conditioned to hearing the lies that they want to hear.
MSM will never, ever give Pres Trump credit for anything. They’ll find some way to spin everything against him, even if they have to lie to do it. But you all already know that.
That behavior of them is working to their detriment now.
Mainstream middle America is not unaware of the dichotomy of what they are saying and what they can see and observe for themselves.
It is only in the echo chamber of the fully deluded TDS sufferers that the Globalist’s propaganda machine is having an effect – reinforcing their continued break with reality.
I know the routine:
President Trump cures cancer.
The msm:
“Trump’s actions hurt oncologists and surgeons, hospital vacancies soar!”
The President helps usher in the best economy ever.
msm: “Experts fear Trump’s moves will overheat economy, leading to disaster!”
DJT negotiates World Peace 🌎
msm:
“Trump destroys munition makers’ livelihoods… gunrunners and arms dealers hardest hit”
DJT walks on water.
msm: “breaking news:
Trump can’t swim!”
It bears remembering that one of the first bills signed by President Washington was a tariff bill, designed to promote and protect domestic industry. Our Founders well knew that the nation could not survive and be independent unless it had a thriving domestic manufacturing capability – and this had to be created from scratch, which meant that it had to be protected. Tariffs not only did that, but they provided our entire original source of government revenue. People were willing to pay tariffs to get: “Made in USA.”
Somehow, since the 1970’s, the USA “swallowed a lot of poisonous Kool-Aid.” We literally dismantled our domestic capacity and sold it to our enemies. But, this trend can be reversed – “in spades” – and tariffs are the first step in doing that. (Never tell “an American” what he can’t do …)
“Tariffs” have been around forever. What’s wrong, in the case of the USA, is that our nation paid billions of dollars in tariffs without imposing them ourselves. Our so-called “trading partners” (sic) were, and still are, eager to take advantage of this stupidity.
Companies, markets, and (like it or not …) governments will “adapt.” As they always do. Negotiations will occur.
I remember the selling point in the 70’s was that you could by a pair of jeans for $5.00. That $5 jean has been costly in the long run.
There was a Levi Strauss factory in a nearby town that employed many moms.
The factory was closed and the jeans made overseas. The women who had worked there were a tight-knit hardworking community. But interestingly an unusually high number of them have come down with a blood disease that is attributed to the formaldehyde sizing used on the denim fabric. When I go into a fabric store the chemical smell is overwhelming.
I also knew a kid in the 1979s who had worked in a cotton textile mill cleaning cotton fluff that gets in the lungs of workers.
There are many costs borne by many people.I want factories and work here. I also want responsible leadership
501’s in the 1960’s were $3.25.
The left is indoctrinated, to be sure.
But obviously also WILLFULLY ignorant.
And delusional, my democrat neighbor was finally shocked about $6.50 eggs.
I can’t figure out where he was when eggs were $8.50 . . ?
Lazy, uncurious, ‘garbage in/garbage out’ people – plus, I’ll bet a huuuge %%% are on meds – anti-depressants (which supposedly only make one more depressed and hopeless); stuff for obesity; who knows what else – plus marijuana (which, from what I’ve read is nothing like the MJ of the ’60s, ’70s, ’80s – but instead is supercharged and causes psych problems); plus alcohol – a depressant. Couple those scenarios with living depraved, freak lives – they’re rudderless, spiritually lost and only ‘feel’ something when being enraged and whipped up by those who only use them, laughing at how easy it is given their mindlessness and inability to discern.
Its all tied in together. We are, in a sense all “addicts”: when we do something positive, our brains release a chemical cocktail of Dopamine, etc. that makes us feel good.
Eating, a good dum..er getting rid of what we ate, drinking and again eliminating, having sex, or any accomplishment like completing a puzzle, passing a test, getting a job, doing some difficult task, will get us a “little shot”.
And, these little shots released repetitively, will give us “good self esteem” and good self esteel insures a good baseline level.
However, if for some reason our baseline gets permanently set at low levels, usually in our youth, we CRAVE a “fix” and will do anything to get it.
Robin Williams parents neglected him, and he spent all his time alone in his room.
Hence, his manic frenetic energy, to get positive attention.
Again, a job, whats called “Job Satisfaction”, builds self esteem and gives us regular ” fixes” of reward chemical cocktails.
Take away rewarding jobs, and leave people with no way to get a job satisfaction fix, and then they WILL find a way, whether its drugs, alcohol, sex, or whatever.
Do we want a citizenry that has earned their self-esteem…
Or slaves who crave their daily ration of Soma???
Look at DJT – he’s ‘living his best life’ – without
Drugs
Alcohol
Tobacco
Of course he has a beautiful wife… but he also gets to create – to build – something extremely worthwhile, every single day!
And also engage in ‘creative destruction’, to allow the seeds of a better tomorrow, grow!
Love the picture – perfect representation of Hassett!
Quoting DOCTOR Rand Paul while debating an economist like Hassett seems a little silly. I like a lot of Rand’s positions, but he has the same fatal flaw as most hard-core libertarian purists, an inability to see pragmatic solutions in situations where you are dealing with opposing factions that are NOT libertarian. It’s like engaging in a fight when you are playing by Marquess of Queensbury rules against an MMA no limits opponent.
“fatal flaw as most hard-core libertarian purists, an inability to see pragmatic solutions in situations where you are dealing with opposing factions”
In order for libertarian principals to work, we have to live in a perfect world where people and countries are not going to cheat to benefit themselves.
The reality is that we live in a sin cursed world that is pretty much controlled by forces of darkness.
Rand would make a good college professor. Running a business or a government Rand would be an abject failure.
Riiight. ”
The Constitution was designed for a moral people, and can not work for any other.”
Our Founders were all Libertarians, every one.
They were liberals in the classic sense of the word.
Right, he can’t understand that people can disagree and both be right.
It’s called COMPETING INTERESTS.
I have always found that when well-informed, reasonably intelligent people disagree on something it is usually because they have a different set of priorities that they are applying to the question.
Rand is very dangerous to MAGA and MAHA. He stopped health care reform in 2017.
You can learn so much here…..
Never heard of a quokka before.
https://bestlifeonline.com/quokka/
The quokka clearly has never heard of George Steponallofus.
“Step-on-all-of-us …” 🤡 ROTFL …
That is a very interesting five minutes from Pelosi; she was vociferously in agreement with all that President Trump is trying to cure, as far as the US/China trade deficit. And she understood all the ramifications, from loss of jobs and us being the number one consumer of Chinese made products.
Stunning find.
So………..was that video made before, or after she received her first Chinese paycheck ????????
ABC and Stephanopoulos to pay Trump $15M, apologize in defamation suit settlement
15M is chump change to them…
The apology is Priceless!!!
I can only assume that it was the mid 2000s that Democrats decided to abandon working Americans.
https://www.facebook.com/share/v/1AAKRet5jN/?mibextid=wwXIfr
Colkitto can fact check this for us. Pat Buchanan predicted this. 😉
Actually, that speech Nanzi gave was targeted at Bill Clinton’s NAFTA $ell-out.
It took Pelosi a little longer to sell us out, too.
George, it’s tough to debate someone when they are expert in their field and have 20+ iq points on you.
But, hey you tried.
I had to smile at wondering if President Trump got a call from one of the penguins on the Heard and McDonald Islands. (Or maybe a text, saying, “So long, and thanks for all the fish…” (Douglas Adams Hitchhiker reference) 🙂
P.S. Interesting to read that although the islands are only inhabited by penguins, they do belong to Australia, and there have been business transactions for machinery there (possibly involving fisheries?) I had thought maybe including them was about any future mineral rights, or something of possible future value there.
https://www.newsweek.com/brooke-rollins-confronted-tariffs-islands-penguins-live-2055997
Seems it was a brilliant way to highlight the extent of China’s cheating trans-shipping.
Leave no polity or tiny isle to exploit, and when the MarxMerdia predictably pounces, school ’em with a smile.
Maybe at his next State of the Union, he could have one of the penguins sitting in the gallery and introduce them.
Wasn’t Nadler at the recent one already?
Just saying.
Ha, good one, Maquis!
(And I would rank him as a supervillain, so yeah…)
Russia, Russia, Russia. God – GS is using the same old playbook. He couldn’t come up with an original thought if it slapped him upside the head.
And he’s the guy having been on the team that came up with the slogan, “It’s the economy, Stupid!”
Actually that was James Carville, talking to Steponallofus, calling George stupid.
It’s nice that Trinidad & Tobago called to settle their 2 billion trade deficit, but meanwhile China I think reciprocated with a 34% tariff (dont pin me on the number) and the EU wants to slap 20% on US services.
Point is, you will need to get the big economies to the table, and if any one of those decide to make it a trade war and escalate its going to be a road of hurt. (Less goods and sevices available, at higher price = less wealth for the common American working-to-make-ends-meet folks)
I also do not understand why pick a fight with the whole world at once, Trump could have done it in a staggered appraoch (10 countries in a batch starting with the largest economies first) Instead he chose maximum market turmoil.
Like in DIY home improvement trying to fix your basement floor and then wrecking your bedrooms and living room as well in the process. But I am sure it has a grand plan behind it.
@Bob, I personally think that he was correct to “roll it all out at once.” Otherwise, those who saw themselves as “spared” would react differently – and, if we them “hit them with it later,” the reactions might not be as we desire.
In very short order, I think that we will find that nothing has actually been “wrecked.” Tariffs among nations are as old as time, and they are a vital tool.
The key difference here is that we’ve been paying them without imposing them. For about fifty years, we’ve been very stupid, and we have paid a dear price. The “targets” will very swiftly react and begin to compensate to the new reality, but this is not going to happen immediately. Nor should we expect it to. In fact, nothing will “melt down.”
Mike, I agree with what you say is an option and it might play out that way.
But there is no guarantee that – of various outcomes available – it has to / will play out that way.
That is every country will come neatly to the table and re-negotiate to a deal that is better for the US.
There is Risk / Reward and this is a maximum risk approach, which could also flip to an unforeseen or foreseen and not expected outcome. (When the tariffs stay on too long this will have impact in real economy, that we will have to see how they play out)
Also as I said some economies are larger than others.
So why waste resources negotiating with 150 small countries if the 30 you care about get away from you. It’s a lot of risk being taken.
It is unwise to try to cure a cancer by just cutting half, or two thirds, off and to wait until the scar is nice and close then opening it up again to finish the treatment.
The whole world economic village of rotten and worth of total demolition and reconstruction.
What about the big countries trying to use the small countries as a pass-through? The big countries hand over a little moolah for the small countries to look the other way.
A loaf of bread in the store is $2 for the poor guy and the rich guy.
And if there’s no tariffs on the small countries (fair across the board), pretty soon they are small countries with lots of factories. The American worker gets screwed again.
As they say time is money. Trump time is mo money.
So you’re on the same team as little georgie stuffacoçkinmouthofous??
Ad hominem and no factual counter arguments
Let me try anyway:
What factual evidence can you present that all of the big economies will fall exactly inline as Trump policy team expects to?
On level of expectations, what is even your expectation on this “falling inline” or “fairer trade” then?
That the other country is “less mean” to the US? How will you quantify this “meanness”.
Then yes if such becomes the benchmark then everything is a win.
But my point was that such results could also have been achieved with less risk possibly.
If you want investment (in factories that are supposed to produce stuff on US soil then) you want investors, and investors generally shy away from risk. Policy changing weekly is RISK.
I have no idea what you do in your spare time with naming teams like you do, but its best to leave your bedroom talk out of the comment thread 🙂
There is not a more consistent economic policy than tariffs since time immemorial and globally. And PDJT has been advocating for them for decades.
It’s nice to know you are smarter than the President and all of his economic advisers.
Simple, and it has been said so often, that I struggle to believe you don’t know it
The U.S. iis THE market, everyone wants to sell into.
As a market, we punch far outside our weight class.
So much so that is NOT hyperbole, but fact that nobody else is even close.
That, along with the reality that every trade war has been won by the countey with the deficit, not with the surplus.
We also want to bring our big boys back to the USA>
The US Consumer currently drives over 40% of the GDP Producing activity, Globally.
The Biggest Opponents (EU and China) drive about 35-40% combined.
If the president is able capture deals with the remaining 20%+ of the “smaller” economies and start negotiations with say with India and Brazil … the Biggest Opponents are in deep crap and sinking fast … because those Big Opponents have no where to peddle their wares.
Also, your notion of going after a few at time does exactly what the opponents want … set up a never ending running negotiation that goes no where … by upsetting the WHOLE WORLD ORDER, as the German Chancellor Moaned was happening, President Trump actually creates opportunities that currently DO NOT EXIST in the current WORLD ECONOMIC ORDER for the lesser Economic Powers.
The piecemeal approach all the timid as well as recalcitrant REPUBLICANS and others such as yourself desire is a recipe to have the clock run out and having ZERO achieved …. or maybe you have missed how “cooperative” (//sarc) our friends in the EU and China Inc. have been discussing any topic that brings peace and possible mutual economic benefit globally.
Finally, a Chaos Artist for the rest of us!
Bob Mentir wants a predictable slow motion tit for tat game that can’t be won and leaves most players out of the game.
PDJT understands the value of Chaos and Uncertainty, and wields them with great aplomb and much cheer.
Thank you, Sundance!
You know Stephanopoulos is outwitted when he relies upon Rand Paul to frame his narrative. lol And Mike Pence shoots a giant hole in it!
Stephanopoulos is outwitted when he relies upon Rand Paul to frame his narrative
And vice versa!
Stephanopoulos is both stupid and dishonest.
So are the glorious “experts” he cited, as well as Mike Pence and Rand Paul.
Lame brained liars, each and every one.
George staphylococcus is an asshole. He knows that the tariffs will work and prices will come down but he produces questions with misleading assumptions (e. G., have you stop beating your wife?) and demands immediate results countering 20 plus years trends to the opposite, ie wage stagnation, inflation, job losses.
In other words, he or the people behind understand the benefits of the plan and frame questions to put Trump’s plan in as negative light as possible and avoiding the strong overall benefits based upon history.
I would love to learn the financial issues in detail like Hassert and Lutnick. I would love to learn the broader Trump plans and politics in general and go toe to toe with that son of a bitch on air and mop the floor with him. I would practice day and night and learn all I can to go at it with talkings heads on live tv.
Oh, you say he is pretty good? You say the he is extremely clever and clever enough to put a rapist in the White House? I would say your right and he is damn near brillian.
But and this is a big But……
Ordinary people, like me, see the danger that this country is in and especially with these demogagues and ordinary people are rising up to do extraordinary duties to defeat these villains. We the People will draw from Faith and find internal wherewithal to overcome even the most clever and accomplished liars, like George Staph.
Your are already far above that little weasel. Don’t lower yourself like that.
Meant no insensitivity to weasels.
Weasels are good for the garden, they control rodents.
Then we actually need more weasels in Congress.
If tariffs are so bad for America, why are over 50 other countries reaching out to negotiate new deals with President Trump?
The truth is clear for those with eyes to see and functioning brains.
Time for this one again. We listened to the wrong damned people, and we let them take it all away from us and F it all up. Well …… here we go. Takin’ it BACK!
Prez TRUMP!
Hit me!
good god
shooby dooby doo wop
OK, I know he’s just a movie character, but it makes me sad seeing Apollo dancing up there.
There is no hope with Democrats they never pull for the nation. They don’t want America to win. All they look for is to destroy their opponent, which is America. In other words Democrats are trators . They’re communist.
That one.
OMG! Another one of your better analysis, Sundance. I am still laughing at “ninja quokka”
suspicious quokka
I love it!
I hope Sundance sees this one!
You gotta be pretty sus to get side-eye from a Quokka!
In less than 1 week after the presidents tariffs strategy, 50+ countries are getting in line to negotiate new trade deals.
In less than 30 days are border invasion has been reduced by over 90%. Promises made and promises kept, it is awesome to see what a man with a spine and integrity can accomplish.
Now let’s discover who truly lead our republic from 2020 to 2024, because we know who did not lead it!
I love our Wolverines! So, Vietnam offered to lower their tariffs to zero. Not enough says the Trump team!! omg my sides…. WINNING! FTA:
“Vietnam offered to remove all tariffs on US imports after President Donald Trump announced a 46% levy on the Southeast Asian nation, according to an April 5 letter from Vietnam’s communist party….. (Snip)
“If you simply lowered our tariffs and they lowered our tariffs to zero, we’d still run about $120 billion trade deficit with Vietnam,” he said on Fox News’ Sunday Morning Futures. “And the problem is all of the non-tariff cheating that they do. That includes export subsidies and allegedly serving as a tariff-evading platform for Chinese exports, Navarro said.”
Vietnam Offers to Remove Tariffs on US After Trump’s Action – Bloomberg
That is why the equation is so important in a prior analysis by Sundance. We are going to get imports and exports to balance or run a slight surplus for US. The goal is to bring key manufacturing back to the US and sell more products overseas to have Fair Balanced Trade.
America is the card game everyone wants and has to play at and President Donald J Trump has the winning hand called Tariffs, which is his Magic Wand that the Council On Foreign Relations muppet Obama said would be needed.
Regulatory statists versus American businessmen.
Didn’t Zero lose his magic wand in a swamp behind his house?
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“Hey Democrat. I thought you wanted big corporations to ‘pay their fair share’. Now you don’t because you just learned that ‘costs get passed on’?”
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Good one.
It’s simply amazing that the left expects the U.S. to continue to be the world’s sole and most stupid Sugar Daddy when we’re 36 trillion dollars in debt.
The basic problem with trying to use libertarians to make your point is the libertarians don’t have an answer to:
1. How is slave labor a “free market”?
2. How are one-way tariffs a “free market”?
A real libertarian believes that the road to free trade runs through tariff reciprocation.
The other problem? Most people who ended up on this side of the river in the post-conservative, post-ideological era, took a boat through Libertarian Land. While there, they realized the Libertarians are just liberals who don’t like paying taxes unless it’s weed sales taxes collected in a public-private partnership “for the children”.
Look under “S” and you will find that little lyin fidget Georgie Porgie there.
https://www.cfr.org/membership/roster
Trump’s plan on track, unlike the silly Commies!
They can tap into the Duchy of Cornwall…their winter wheat crop should be in and harvested about now?
Lol, pedophiles who killed the English for power.
They need to buy up all the ninja swords and machetes, before their guests do.
Just like with the WuFlu, there is too much noise from the flouncers and bureau-rats trying to create panic.
“Step-On-Him-A-Lot-He-Must” sure got stomped on by NEC Director Kevin Hassett’s answers in this interview.
Our Donkey Party Journalists just cannot abide facts contrary to their point of view.
But, sometimes they interview folks who know more than they do.
That’s gotta hurt.
Just goes to show how important and powerful the US is to the world economy. Proves yet again, as the US goes, so does the rest of the world.
The critter in the picture looks like the thought to be extink tariff groundhog.
It only appears every 80 years.
If it smiles the indication or prediction is tariffs will only last for a short period if time.😀
I saw a video early this morning….Canadian’s grocery stores have moved their products on the shelves to ‘eye level’…and US stuff on the bottom shelves.
And one local Chicagoland grocery chain does not have any Kraft cheese that I could find…other brands, plentiful…
By the third question I was aching to hear Director Hassett say
“George you ignorant slut…”
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All the other chatter..is just that—chatter.
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I watched a BBC interview of a British Treasury official discussing tariffs. The question the BBC employee kept pressing was whether or not the government would go along with stopping the “trade war”, essentially giving in to President Trump’s instructions on how to avoid tariffs. He refused to answer, just repeating that they intended to “negotiate with President Trump”.
It’s hard to believe that people think they have some lever over the money the American taxpayers have been giving them for 75 years. Trillions and trillions of dollars. Now they don’t want it to stop, naturally. But President Trump has already said that when they drop their tariffs against the U.S. and unblock the specific protectionist laws they have passed against U.S. products, we would drop our tariffs against them. So what do they have to use as a negotiation tool? People seem to want to ignore the fact that what they are being given is our hard-earned money that has been confiscated by the U.S. government, ostensibly to run OUR government.
To quote the U.S. Secretary of Commerce, Howard Lutnick, “If tariffs are bad, why does everyone use them against us?” I find it absolutely mind-boggling that any U.S. politician could possibly be against any of President Trump’s tariffs. For the liberal socialists, I understand that they are against ANYTHING that improves America. And I understand people like Biden and Mitch McConnell whose political actions are completely owned by a foreign country. But if it isn’t ideological hatred of America or just having been bought and paid for, why would anyone else get in the way?
Yet evidently some undocumented democrats, also known as RINOs, intend to do just that. Hand-in-hand with the democrat activists in the Judicial branch trying to stop corrections for the waste, abuse, and fraud that is systemic in the Federal government! Zombie departments, anyone?
President Trump – don’t slow down, don’t back up one inch!
Aside from conceding every main point and telling everyone that prices would go up I’d say he did pretty well.
There are good spins and there are bad spins.
The world spinning on its axis is a good spin because it keeps half the earth from frying and the other half from freezing.
Stephanopoulos spinning for ABC is a bad spin because it distorts narratives which in turn distort the truth.
The problem for George is identical to the problem facing all the spinners on all the alphabet networks, ABC, CBS, NBC, MSNBC, CNN and PBS.
Loss of credibility.
Once you lose it, you don’t get it back.
No spin…just fact!
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GS is a broken record. Everything he says is predictable that when forced to listen to him he is nothing but hot air.
He must have to bite his tongue in discussions with Trump Team members as that $15MM judgment lingers in the background.
Trump could throw a nuclear bombshell on the federal government by requiring all purchases be 100% made in the USA.
From toilet paper to jet fighters, only buy Made in the USA!
You may not be aware but there are very significant Buy America Acts that have been on the stature books since before WW2 whose reach keeps getting extended.
However when foreign countries pass the same measures they are regarded by the US as restrictions of trade i.e. immoral and unfair.
“Regarding the Russia talking point. How is Trump supposed to calculate a tariff regime against a country we have placed under trade sanctions with a full economic embargo? There’s no current U.S. trade with Russia, deficit or otherwise, so there’s nothing to tariff.”
Sundance you are wrong, my highlight. Unless trade has fallen off a cliff in 2025.
Russia Trade Summary
U.S. total goods trade with Russia were an estimated $3.5 billion in 2024. U.S. goods exports to Russia in 2024 were $526.1 million, down 12.3 percent ($73.5 million) from 2023. U.S. goods imports from Russia totaled $3.0 billion in 2024, down 34.2 percent ($1.6 billion) from 2023. The U.S. goods trade deficit with Russia was $2.5 billion in 2024, a 37.5 percent decrease ($1.5 billion) over 2023. https://ustr.gov/countries-regions/europe-middle-east/russia-and-eurasia/russia
This includes, fertiliser, precious stones, uranium, inorganic chemicals, wood, titanium castings etc https://www.usimportdata.com/blogs/what-products-does-us-import-from-russia
Even under sanctions (the US gets to select those it enforces) this seems to me to require a 15% tariff.
This is a much more plausible reason for zero tariffs
The administration of US President Donald Trump has not imposed tariffs on Russia in order not to jeopardize ongoing negotiations to resolve the Ukrainian conflict, Kevin Hassett, director of the White House Economic Council, told ABC.
I don’t think I have ever seen snuffleupgus so openly hostile, before, and ditto for Brennan.
Both hammering the same talking points, the same ctiticisms framed as questions..
They and their producers REALLY don’t like these tariffs!
Operative words in your statement are “these tariffs”, as in “Trump’s tariffs.”
IMHO, if any DemoRat president was imposing the same tariffs, the same Fake News alphabet media puppets would be singing their praises.
Exactamente!!