Surprise! - "They've been using their NGO's to dump fake voter registration forms utilizing the fake SS#'s on key county registrar's offices for the last 5-6 election cycles. Then using those fraudulent voter registrations to request ballots in the mail. Then they pay the NGO's… https://t.co/aCr6GHCEtV pic.twitter.com/Yt0iczNvyO
— Rasmussen Reports (@Rasmussen_Poll) April 3, 2025
Wednesday, April 09, 2025
"They've been using their NGO's to dump fake voter registration forms utilizing the fake SS#'s on key county registrar's offices, Then using those fraudulent voter registrations to request ballots in the mail..."
95% of all plastic in the world’s seas and oceans comes from 10 rivers, 2 of which are in Africa, the rest are in Asia
95% of all plastic in the world’s seas and oceans comes from 10 rivers, 2 of which are in Africa and the rest are in Asia. The great lie of modern environmentalism is that anything we do in the West will make a difference as long as Asia and Africa continue to pollute like this. https://t.co/KZOlUMY60H pic.twitter.com/nr966mEgla
— RAW EGG NATIONALIST (@Babygravy9) April 8, 2025
Trump Drops the Hammer on Big Pharma — MASSIVE Tariffs Incoming!
TRUMP: “We're going to be announcing very shortly a major tariff on pharmaceuticals. When they hear that, they will leave China … and they're going to be opening up their plants all over the place in our country.” pic.twitter.com/HTUAoue062
— Chief Nerd (@TheChiefNerd) April 9, 2025
President Donald Trump announced Tuesday night that his administration will soon impose major tariffs on foreign-made pharmaceuticals, forcing drug companies to bring their operations back to U.S. soil where they belong.
Trump's reciprocal tariffs aren't about slapping China for fun, They're about reshaping incentives so that manufacturing in the US becomes attractive again ...
We've tried the free trade route. The promise was: send our jobs abroad, and we'll all get rich on cheaper TVs and tuna. But unless your job was as a hedge fund manager or Amazon warehouse robot, that promise came with a footnote: "Offer not valid in manufacturing towns, rural America, or Detroit."
Trump's reciprocal tariffs aren't about slapping China for fun (although it's fun, particularly after COVID). They're about reshaping incentives so that manufacturing in the US becomes attractive again.
It's already happening. Steel mills are reopening, auto plants are expanding, and companies that used to run to China at the first sign of a union now think, "Hmm, maybe Toledo isn't so bad after all."
A White House report from earlier this year backs it up: Trump's first-term tariffs led to substantial reshoring in key industries. These aren't your gig-economy gigs. These are jobs with decent wages, long-term career paths, and the kind of dignity that's been outsourced for the past 30 years.
Sure, there's a concern that tariffs could mean higher prices. But let's be honest — if paying an extra 50 cents for a pair of socks means your neighbor gets a job, that's a trade most Americans are happy to make. And with targeted tax cuts or direct consumer . . .
. . . Plus, domestic production brings efficiencies. Once we scale up, costs come down. We're not just making America competitive again — we're building a robust industrial base that can weather future storms, pandemics, and supply chain chaos.
We used to be the country that built the Hoover Dam, the Model T, and the Apollo rocket. Then we became the country that builds... PowerPoints.
Reciprocal tariffs are a brash, unapologetic way of saying we want to make things again — better, more substantial, and made by Americans earning real wages. It's not just economic policy — it's national therapy.
Let Wall Street clutch its pearls. The real action is in factories, foundries, and main streets that get a second shot at life. America isn't just open for business — it's open for building. And that's a trade war worth fighting.
THERE'S MUCH MORE.
Maybe Elon Musk Needs To Get Into The Ship-Building Business
I don't know how they build ships, but I have seen how they build bridges.A single shipyard in China can, within a year, out-produce decades worth of ships in the US. That’s a huge problem.
— Ian Miles Cheong (@stillgray) April 8, 2025
An unclassified slide released by U.S. naval intelligence last year estimated that China’s total shipbuilding capacity was now more than 632 times that of the US. https://t.co/AtWFUuA7UP
AND THEN THERE'S THIS:
Princeton Radicals Disrupt Event With Naftali Bennet, Yelling 'Genocide' and Pulling Fire Alarm
Princeton Radicals Disrupt Event With Naftali Bennet, Yelling 'Genocide' and Pulling Fire Alarm
‘This is our land, you came from Europe running away from the Holocaust!’ one activist yells
Scuzlim Found Guilty of Hate Crime in Bomb Scare Plot Targeting Christian Churches Across the U.S.
A federal jury has found 45-year-old Zimnako Salah of Phoenix, Arizona, guilty on multiple counts after he targeted Christian churches across three states with hoax bomb threats, motivated purely by anti-Christian hatred.
Following an 11-day trial, the jury returned its verdict Thursday, concluding Salah planted a backpack at a Christian church in Roseville, California, in an attempt to simulate a bomb threat.
The device, strapped to a church toilet, was intended to terrorize innocent congregants and obstruct their right to worship.
The jury found that Salah specifically targeted the church because of the Christian faith of its members—legally designating this act as a hate crime.
NEW: Senior CIA Official Who Played Role in Biden Military Covid Vaccine Mandate Fired
Scoop from @kristina_wong: Terry Adirim, a senior CIA official and former senior defense official who played a pivotal and potentially illegal role in the Biden Administration’s military vaccine mandate, was recently fired from the agency. pic.twitter.com/5xcP9381lj
— Breitbart News (@BreitbartNews) April 8, 2025
A tremendously unhealthy looking woman who, it seems, wanted to make everyone else as unhealthy as her.
The senior CIA official who helped facilitate the Biden-era military Covid vaccine mandate has been fired.
In 2021, then-Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin imposed a vaccine mandate for US troops.
Joe Biden supported Lloyd Austin’s military Covid vaccine mandate.
“The president agrees with Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin that the Pentagon should continue to require all service members be vaccinated and boosted against Covid-19,” then-National Security Council spokesperson John Kirby told reporters in 2022.
According to Breitbart News, Terry Adirim, a senior CIA official and former Defense Department official under Joe Biden, was fired last week.
Adirim was fired for her role in mandating military members to either take the jab or be forced out.
Breitbart previously reported on Adirim’s memo in forcing servicemembers to take a vaccine that was not FDA approved.
Woke, DEI-Obsessed Navy Vice SCRUNT Admiral Who Allegedly Refused to Put Up Trump’s Portrait at NATO Headquarters Has Been FIRED
The Trump Administration continues to drain the deep state swamp of woke military officials obsessed with DEI and nation-building.
Fox News reported on Tuesday that Navy Vice Admiral Shoshana Chatfield, the only woman on NATO’s military committee, was fired over the weekend, reportedly as part of a larger effort to purge wokeness from the Pentagon.
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth made the final call last week, but whether President Trump was involved is unclear.
Sean Parnell, the Assistant to the Secretary of Defense for Public Affairs & Chief Pentagon Spokesman, stated on X that Chatfield was terminated “due to a loss of confidence in her ability to lead.” He went on to say the DoD is grateful for her years of service in the military.
Thank you for your service. Now GTFO!Secretary Hegseth has removed U.S. Navy Vice Admiral Shoshana Chatfield from her position as U.S. representative to NATO’s military committee due to a loss of confidence in her ability to lead. The Defense Department is grateful for her many years of military service.
— Sean Parnell (@SeanParnellATSD) April 8, 2025
A COUPLE of Bad Apples?!?!??!??!!!???!??!!!? AYFKM?!!!???!???
FUCK YOU, ASSHOLE!
Axios founder @JimVandeHei says trust in American media collapsed in three phases.
— Honestly with Bari Weiss (@thehonestlypod) April 8, 2025
1. Twitter exposed the political bias of “objective” journalists.
2. Coverage of Covid, “defund the police,” and word policing didn’t sit right with Americans.
3. The lack of coverage around Joe… pic.twitter.com/aTpxAZQrYr
Tuesday, April 08, 2025
Johnny Rotten is right: Hamas is a gang of ‘Jew exterminators’
Johnny Rotten is right: Hamas is a gang of ‘Jew exterminators’
It was in an interview with the Irish Independent that John Lydon – as he’s now known – stuck two fingers up at today’s fashionable Israelophobia. The reporter reminds him that his band, Public Image Limited, played in Tel Aviv in 2010 and asks if he would ever do so again. The ‘right’ reply to such a query, of course, is to say: ‘No. Never. I swear. Please don’t cancel me.’ Rotten’s reply? Basically: yeah, why the hell not.
He says he had a hoot playing in Israel. ‘The country is more mixed than you’re led to believe, it’s not just “Jews only”, far from it’, he said. Cue pearl-clutching from every luvvie who thinks Israel is an ‘apartheid state’ because some tit at the Guardian told them it was. ‘There were lots of Muslims in the audience when I played there’, he said. Then his killer line: ‘That was special because no Muslim nation has invited me, not ever.’
I can’t get enough of this. Where celebs normally trot out whatever anti-Israel crap they’ve heard from TikTok’s time-rich white kids in keffiyehs, here comes Johnny with the truth. The truth that Muslims in Israel are freer than Muslims in Muslim countries. They’re even allowed to rock out to the world’s best-known punk. How come? Here Lydon really hits his stride, giving voice to a truth that’s become surreally unsayable in polite society – it’s because Arabs in Israel ‘get the same rights as a Jew’, he says. The man doesn’t lie.
But surely, says the interviewer to Lydon, you can see why people would ‘object’ to you playing in Israel? Guess what? He can’t. These people just don’t know what they’re talking about, he says. If you’re one of those halfwits who thinks visiting the Jewish State is the great unwashable sin of our age, then ‘you’re working on what you’ve been told rather than what you found out for yourself’, he says. You’ve been ‘indoctrinated rather than educated’. Preach, John.
"Shortly before he was forced to resign, the nation’s top vaccine regulator says he refused to grant Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s team unrestricted access to a tightly held vaccine safety database."
I don't think journalists (and scientists) understand how damning this looks
— PoIiMath (@politicalmath) April 7, 2025
They think this makes Peter Marks a hero, but normal people look at this and say "why is the vaccine safety database off limits to the Secretary of Health?" https://t.co/hEptLD9a8a
DOJ Reveals Would-Be Trump Assassin Ryan Routh Tried to Purchase a Stinger Missile from Ukrainian to Take Out Trump – Also Discussed July Assassination Attempt in PA with Operative Before His Failed Attempt in September
🚨NEW: The DOJ alleged in a late-Monday motion that would-be Trump assassin Ryan Routh ATTEMPTED TO BUY A ROCKET LAUNCHER FROM A UKRAINIAN ASSOCIATE weeks before his Sept. 15 attempt.
— Headline USA (@HeadlineUSA) April 8, 2025
"I need equipment so that Trump cannot get elected," Routh allegedly told his Ukrainian… pic.twitter.com/WiRuG2kDRg
New court documents reveal that would-be Trump assassin attempted to purchase a Stinger Missile to take out Trump here in the US.
A Stinger Missile reportedly costs from $119,000 to S120,000.
On the black market, a Stinger Missile costs anywhere from $50,000 to $80,000.
So where did Ryan Routh get all of his funding?
The court documents reveal that Routh was communicating with someone he “believed to be a Ukraine with access to military weapons.”
It sounds like Routh was holding talks with a federal operative.
And, Routh and his associate were talking about assassinating Trump in July 2024 in Pennsylvania!
Muslim adult man marries 8-year-old girl
Robert Spencer points to an awful incident of recent where a grown Muslim man forcibly married an 8-year-old girl, using the Koran to justify his actions:
Yet another child has been married because of Islamic laws that no one wishes to admit exist, much less counter in any way.Don't expect the BBC to actually champion the girl in distress, however. It's an almost forgone conclusion news outlets like them will soon sweep this under the rug again, and in doing so, allow repulsive perversions like these to continue unopposed for years to come. This is utterly disgusting, and it must be addressed by anybody who seriously cares about the well being of young girls.
The BBC reported recently that “an eight-year-old girl, who had been missing for six months, was found living with a man who said he was her husband.” This man, identified as Sheikh Mahmoud, “initially said he was solely teaching the girl the Quran. But after legal complaints were filed, he changed his statement, saying he had married the girl with her father’s consent.”
He did this based on Islamic law: “When asked by the BBC how he justified marrying an eight-year-old, Sheikh Mahmoud said that the traditions of Islam’s Prophet Muhammad, along with that of the Shafi’i school of thought, allowed child marriage.” The BBC, as woke as ever, and thus determined to defend the image of Islam in every possible way, begged to differ: “After the BBC questioned his reasoning – citing opposition from numerous Somali Islamic scholars – Sheikh Mahmoud maintained that he would not abandon the marriage.”
The BBC’s “opposition from numerous Sunni Islamic scholars” notwithstanding, Sheikh Mahmoud is not some extremist or eccentric. He is acting upon standard, basic Islam. Islamic tradition records that Muhammad consummated his marriage with (i.e., raped) Aisha when she was nine, and the resultant fact that child marriage and the sexualization of children are taken for granted in wide swaths of the Islamic world: “The Prophet wrote the (marriage contract) with Aisha while she was six years old and consummated his marriage with her while she was nine years old and she remained with him for nine years (i.e. till his death)” (Bukhari 7.62.88). Muhammad was at this time fifty-four years old. Numerous other early Islamic traditions state the same thing.
Marrying young girls was not all that unusual in Muhammad’s time. But because, in Islam, Muhammad is the supreme example of conduct (cf. Qur’an 33:21), he is considered exemplary in this even today. For that reason, Article 1041 of the Civil Code of the Islamic Republic of Iran states that girls can be engaged before the age of nine, and married at nine: “Marriage before puberty (nine full lunar years for girls) is prohibited. Marriage contracted before reaching puberty with the permission of the guardian is valid provided that the interests of the ward are duly observed.”
Supreme Court Rules That Trump May Invoke Alien Enemies Act to Deport Foreign Gang-Members and Criminals In Repudiation of Judge Boasberg's Endless String of Restraining Orders
🚨BREAKING: SCOTUS has ruled in Trump's favor on the usage of the Alien Enemies Act of 1798!
— Gunther Eagleman™ (@GuntherEagleman) April 7, 2025
This is HUGE!
DEPORT THEM ALL! EXPEL THE INVADERS! pic.twitter.com/1BFgzNRv1L
The Court ruled that deportations under the Alien Enemies Act have, historically, "largely been precluded from judicial review," so the judges who keep claiming they have jurisdiction are wrong and asserting power they just don't have.
The court allows that there is some possible relief for a claimed false deportation, but that relief must come by way of a habeas corpus petition, not a TRO filed in a district court.
The Court specifically mentions venue. In a habeas filing, the court with jurisdiction is a court with jurisdiction over the physical part of the country that the person is actually being detained in. So someone detained in Texas must file a habeas petition with a Texas court.
They cannot just keeping filing TRO's in the packed-and-stacked leftwing DC courts.
Tonight, the U.S. Supreme Court VACATED Judge Boasberg's block on Trump using the Alien Enemies Act to deport criminal aliens.
— Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) April 7, 2025
The decision? 5-4.
Guess who joined the 3 liberals? pic.twitter.com/oSrAhtGpT3
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent: "Trump Gave Himself Maximum Leverage ... He's Willing To Start Talking"
🚨 JUST IN: Treasury Secretary Bessent announces up to 70 COUNTRIES have now reached out to President Trump to negotiate on trade
— Nick Sortor (@nicksortor) April 7, 2025
IN LESS THAN A WEEK! 🔥
Trump “gave himself maximum negotiating leverage — and just when he has achieved the maximum leverage, he's willing to start… pic.twitter.com/DtEhFiPin5
Keir Starmer Admits Globalisation Has Failed: "Globalisation Is Over, The World Has Changed"
The prime minister will declare an end to globalisation and admit that it has failed millions of voters as the fallout from President Trump’s tariffs reverberates around the world.
In his first significant intervention since the United States imposed sweeping charges on imports, Sir Keir Starmer will say tomorrow that the seismic global economic effects prove the government must “move further and faster” to boost growth with supply-side reforms.
Later this week he and Rachel Reeves, the chancellor, will make pro-growth announcements, including easing regulations on electric car manufacturers and bringing forward parts of the government’s industrial strategy.
Reeves is due to hold an “economic and financial dialogue” with India on Wednesday to try to hasten a trade deal. Efforts are also being made to secure a new agreement with Australia.
The prime minister will argue that tariffs are the wrong response, but will also say he understands Trump’s economic nationalism and why it is popular with voters who believe they have seen no benefits from free trade and mass immigration.
A Downing Street official said: “Trump has done something that we don’t agree with but there’s a reason why people are behind him on this. The world has changed, globalisation is over and we are now in a new era.
Monday, April 07, 2025
J.D. Vance Was Right: Editor-in-Chief of Germany’s Right-Wing ‘Deutschland-Kurier’ Given Seven Month Prison Sentence for Posting Meme of Interior Minister Holding “I Hate Freedom of Speech” Sign
Vice President J.D. Vance was right. Back in February, Vance lectured Germans and Europeans over the retreat of their most fundamental values, including freedom of speech, the right to assemble, and free and fair elections. J.D. Vance called out Germany in a room full of Germans at the Munich Security Conference,
“This very country, where police have carried out raids against citizens suspected of posting anti-feminist comments online as part of ‘combating misogyny’ on the internet."
“There are thousands upon thousands of American troops in Germany today. Do you think that the American taxpayer is going to stand for that, if you get thrown in jail in Germany for posting a mean tweet? Of course they’re not."
But, Vice President Vance was right.
In a movethat’s already sparking outrage across Germany’s conservative media landscape, the District Court of Bamberg (Upper Franconia/Bavaria) handed down a suspended seven-month prison sentence to Deutschland-Kurier Editor-in-Chief David Bendels earlier today (April 7, 2025). The reason? A satirical meme.
HUGE: The European Union Just Caved on Trump's Tariffs
BUT FIRST, THERE'S THIS:
BREAKING:
— Visegrád 24 (@visegrad24) April 7, 2025
Trump says he won’t enter into talks with Europe on lifting tariffs ”unless they pay us a lot of money on a yearly basis, number one for present but also for past”
Looks as Trump wants a similar deal as the minerals deal with 🇺🇦, hoping to get money back retroactively pic.twitter.com/3Kc6N3LZWc
Europe is ready to negotiate with the US.
— Ursula von der Leyen (@vonderleyen) April 7, 2025
We have offered zero-for-zero tariffs for industrial goods.
Because we're always ready for a good deal.
But we’re also prepared to respond with countermeasures.
And protect ourselves against indirect effects through trade diversion. pic.twitter.com/hpZ77TXH4B
While the left and their media allies urge panic over Trump’s tariffs and the market response, reality is telling a different story — countries are folding fast. Now even the European Union is signaling it’s ready to deal. On Monday, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen announced that the EU is open to negotiations with the United States and has proposed eliminating tariffs on industrial goods altogether.
At a press conference in Brussels, von der Leyen underscored the damaging effects of the current tariffs and made it clear the EU is prepared to negotiate. These tariffs come first and foremost at immense costs for U.S. consumers and businesses, but at the same time, they have a massive impact on the global economy,” she announced. “Especially hard-hit are the developing countries. And this is a major turning point for the United States.”
She continued, “Nonetheless, we stand ready to negotiate with the United States. Indeed, we have offered zero-for-zero tariffs for industrial goods, as we have successfully done with many other trading partners. Because Europe is always ready for a good deal, so we keep it on the table.”
JUST IN: Trump Announces Japanese Prime Minister is Sending Negotiators to Discuss Tariffs
AND THEN THERE'S THIS:
THE KILLING FIELDS OF LEFTISM: Survey Shows Most Self-Identifying Lefties Say Killing Trump Is Justified
SURVEY: 55% Of Self-Identified Leftists Say Killing Trump Is Justifiable
The more troubling trend is the rising violent rhetoric isn't just coming from the 'fringe' left, it's being 'normalized' by the left.
M.D. Kittle
The unhinged left, fueled by Trump Derangement Syndrome and seething hatred for Elon Musk, is trending more violent, according to a new study that finds political violence targeting President Donald Trump and his billionaire adviser is "becoming increasingly normalized."
The report, produced by the Network of Contagion Research Institute (NCRI) in partnership with Rutgers University's Social Perception Lab, finds a broader "assassination culture" appears to be "emerging within segments of the U.S. public on the extreme left, with expanding targets now including figures such as Donald Trump."
Less than a year after assassination attempts on then-presidential candidate Trump and the literally explosive violence against Musk's Tesla electric vehicles, it's no secret that leftists are ratcheting up violent rhetoric and actions. The more troubling trend is that an "assassination culture" isn't just coming from the "fringe" left.
"These attitudes are not fringe -- they reflect an emergent assassination culture, grounded in far-left authoritarianism and increasingly normalized in digital discourse," states the report, titled, "Assassination Culture: How Burning Teslas and Killing Billionaires Became a Meme Aesthetic for Political Violence."
...
"The reports found widespread justification for lethal violence -- including assassination -- among younger, highly online, and ideologically left-aligned users," the authors of the latest study write.
They note the spillover effect beyond the online world, illustrated by a proposed California ballot measure macabrely named "the Luigi Mangione Access to Health Care Act," celebrating the alleged leftist terrorist and murderer of United Healthcare head Brian Thompson. The ballot measure targets health insurance denials, one of Mangione's reported flashpoints.
On Friday, a California man reportedly "angry with pharmacies" was arrested on charges of murdering a Walgreens employee just days after the Luigi Mangione Act was filed with the state. ABC 30 reported that Erick Velazquez, the victim, was not a pharmacist, and was a respected husband and father of two.
AND THEN THERE'S THIS:
AND THEN THERE'S THIS:🚨Deranged James Carville compares companies working with the Trump administration to N*zi collaborators after the liberation of Paris in 1944:
— Western Lensman (@WesternLensman) April 4, 2025
"Do you know what's going to happen? Do you know how this ends?"
"Do you know what the country is going to feel toward collaborators… pic.twitter.com/xFat1erweW
MORE ON TARIFFS
Well Well Well - what have we here? https://t.co/ZYTOvCLIB5
— Catturd ™ (@catturd2) April 7, 2025
Pennsylvania steelworkers on why they are supporting President Trump:
— Jack Poso 🇺🇸 (@JackPosobiec) April 7, 2025
"Historically, we've all been Democrats -- When President Trump stepped in and imposed those tariffs on the Chinese, I firmly believed he saved the steel industry."pic.twitter.com/wpNry7o2SR
Which System Is Worse? It's The Side That Built The Wall To Keep People From Escaping
That is the true test of which system is worse: it’s the side that built the wall to keep people from escaping https://t.co/LxuMmEIWE8
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) April 6, 2025
Britain is lurching towards civil war, and nobody knows how to stop it
I now fear Britain is heading for open sectarian conflict, possibly war, and there’s nothing we can do to stop it. Here’s a snapshot of what I’m hearing.On one night in Westminster, I met someone who argued for voluntary repatriation, two generations back; a Labour activist told me we must “re-educate” Muslims; and Jacob Rees-Mogg, debating me on GB News, said Britain should take “zero” refugees. I spluttered a reply about the good Samaritan and staggered off to bed, confused and depressed.For two decades I’ve argued for controlling immigration, and successive governments, including Jacob’s, increased it. Suddenly I’ve woken up in a land where everyone manically wants to reduce or even reverse it, and they’ve leapfrogged me into a pool of dark resentment.Nigel Farage is mocked as a “dhimmi” for appointing a Muslim to chair his party; he looks nervous of his own supporters.
NEVER FORGET WHAT THEY DID TO JAY BHATTACHARYA (Who Now, Under Trump, is The Director of the NIH)
Collins to Fauci: “There needs to be a quick and devastating published takedown of its premises. I don’t see anything like that online yet—is it underway?”
— Jeff Carlson (@themarketswork) April 7, 2025
Within a day of Collins’s email, Google started to censor search results for “Great Barrington Declaration.” https://t.co/CRs17IS70c
THE ART OF THE DEAL: Not Trade Wars, Trade Negotiations!
Last week, Donald Trump didn’t just impose tariffs. He imposed reality.
If you actually care about free trade, you have to make others care about free trade with you
And the world is reacting exactly as he said it would: by lining up to offer trade concessions, slash their own tariffs, and — increasingly — negotiate free trade on reasonable terms. As of Sunday morning, at least 28 countries have contacted the White House to begin trade negotiations.
Not trade wars. Trade negotiations.
For decades, Washington allowed the U.S. to be the world’s economic doormat. And that made sense…during the Cold War. Allies and adversaries alike imposed massive tariff and non-tariff barriers, ran up obscene trade surpluses, and called it “free trade”, all while lecturing us on “global cooperation.”
Trump changed the conversation. Now he’s changing behavior.
I have argued for free trade for decades. I still am. But it’s that behavior change that’s been needed all along. If you actually care about free trade, you have to make others care about free trade with you.
America has the power to do that. It’s the world’s biggest consumer market in a world of exporters. They need us more than we need them.
Let’s be clear: Trump’s new reciprocal tariffs — with rates rising as high as 50% for chronic abusers — isn’t punishment. It’s leverage. Trump isn’t even charging our trading “partners” the full amount they’re charging us: he’s leaving room to add more should they be intransigent, while making them feel a portion of the pain they’ve made us used to.
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