Hate to be in Europes and Canadas shoes. Sorry if this this article is behind a paywall.
How tariffs work . . .
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So, the solution is to tariff our allies (Europe and Canada), which benefits China. That's a** backward.
That would assume equal footing. There are no allies. Only governments that want something for nothing and take advantage of us.
“same as it ever was”
Yeah, ok. That's not quite how the world works. Attacking countries with similar values to align with murderous dictators is not going to MAGA. It would be the ultimate decline of the US.
Only GB and Australia/NZ could be considered. The rest of the world couldn’t care less,in fact work against us.
great point
the last 4 years are good examples of this
I blame it more on the ones that allowed it, can’t blame the other countries to want to better their situation.
HAYUL - I just want to know what a “MAGA” is.
Tariffs also put the US Dollar at risk of falling as the benchmark currency. All we heard about was Biden putting that at risk and now it’s at risk more than ever.
Chicken or egg?? Always have liked this fellow, keeps it simple:
Causes of Inflation.....
y'all think this fellow was right??......Axe'in 4 a friend: * "Inflation is made in Washington because only Washington can create money." * "too much government spending and too much government creation of money and nothing else." Kinda looks like ole Lester Maddox: Link...
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I don't know, how about not adding tariffs to our allies and use them strategically to weaken our adversaries? Maybe selectively add them to industries that represent a geopolitical risk if a global war breaks out with China/Russia, like drones, rare earth minerals, chips and other elements of the defense industrial supply chain.
The whole point of the tariffs has become clear over the weekend.
Step 1. Trump threatens tariffs starting 30 days from now
Step 2. CEOs pay $5M to come have dinner at Maro Lago to ask for carveouts (https://www.wired.com/story/people-paying-millions-donald-trump-mar-a-lago/)
Step 3: Delay tariffs one more month
Step 4: Repeat step 1
It was never about anything with him except making a buck. He's the ultimate grifter
Got it, so you have no clue what you’re talking about because you don’t know the full situation at hand. So how could you have a viable solution without this viral info, right?
No clue what I'm talking about? Are you just trying to insult me or do you want to have a conversation? You asked me what I would do and I told you.
There are other points to be made against tariffs, but I'm not sure Europe and Canada have similar values with us anymore.
There are a handful of exceptions, but most of Europe and Canada are progressive authoritarians.
America's sanctions on Russia were far more dangerous for the dollar's reserve currency status than tariffs are (because the former dealt with legit rule-of-law concerns, where this is a change in trade policy.)
The concerns about global reserve status, however, are overblown generally because there is no viable competitor - particularly with the ECB engaging in worse policy than the Fed post-2008.
How can you honestly say the US does not have similar values to predominantly Judeo-Christian liberal democracies? Maybe you individually do not have similar values to Canada and Europe, but the US is a big country, and most people don't think like a conservative southerner.
And sidenote, there isn't a single progressive authoritarian regime in Europe. There has been a resurgence of authoritarian populists, but nothing approaching authoritarian from the Left.
You have no desire for a conversation based on your foolish, emotional OP. I’ll pass, man.
My argument would be that most of Europe and Canada are no longer "Judeo-Christian liberal democracies." They have abandoned those values. Modern European technocrats are increasingly secular and authoritarian in their makeup, and open border policies have radically transformed their demographics. Anti-Christian violence has been on the rise throughout Europe, you've had the systemic covering up of Muslim rape gangs largely targeting heritage Europeans, in Canada you had the promotion of hoaxes regarding Catholic schools that resulted in the burning down of churches.
Again, exceptions can be found - Poland, Hungary, Italy - but their has been a significant shift in underlying values. In terms of their "liberal" component, Europe in particular has cracked down on freedom of speech and have actively undermined the democratic process, such as targeting blacklisted political groups.
Europe will be Muslim dominated before long. They will rule the country.
Hoaxes regarding Catholic schools in Canada? They have found over 1300 graves at twenty former residential schools that focused on indigenous children who were taken against the will of their families and placed into these schools.
That’s not a hoax, just as the systemic coverup of tens of thousands of sexual abuse cases by the catholic church here in the US and elsewhere is not a hoax.
If you want an explanation for the waning influence of such institutions, perhaps look at the conduct of the institutions themselves.
Well, damn. I came in blazing with a follow up post and had to go do the research on your NR article. Given that NR is my top conservative source, I’m not surprised by what my research produced, which is not much in support of my original post. Crow is served.
I stand by the overall point of my post, which is that religious institutions bear much of the blame for their loss of influence on today’s culture.
With that in mind and while picking black feathers out of my teeth, I’ll go ahead and share the official Spiritual Advisor of the WH explaining why God needs us so send her money right now. Despite my issues with the CA post, this stands as an example of why more and more people are not taking supposed religious authorities seriously.
The US as a whole? Canada, Australia, New Zealand, the UK, Ireland, Norway, Germany, France…
You have no idea what you’re talking about.
Well, us normies have a lot of common values, but I guess it’s just MAGA that is weird
True. The US is the only one of those countries where, even if you have health insurance, you can still be bankrupted by illness.
It’s the only one of those countries where firearms surpass accidents and cancer as the leading cause of death for children and adolescents.
In fact, the average US lifespan is less than all of those countries.
I could go on, but it’s getting late and I don’t think these were the differences you were referencing anyway.
Tariffs are simply negotiating tactics.. people need to calm down. They create leverage which in turn brings other countries to the table to negotiate better terms.
How many times does Trump have to say this before you acknowledge that it’s what he believes?
Nothing he said is different than what he said. Tariffs have already been leveraged to bring manufacturing jobs back to America. Increasing tariffs aren’t meant to be long term goal but instead trying to make deals that will result in better trade deals with countries. Some of that will result in a lot money in return and some will result in exchange of something of value.
I'm not particularly interested in defending "religious institutions", I'm not Catholic and most mega churches are hypocrites. But I think there is a clear double standard in how churches in general are treated - for example, the extent to which Catholic sex abuse is brought up relative to public schools.
So I heartedly agree that much of the rot in the church comes from within, but its also true that there has been a deliberate push to rewrite the concept of "freedom of religion" to push Christianity out of the political institutions of the West, and a different standard typically applied to it over others.
Sooooo….not sure if you’ve been paying attention, but none of those countries have our values any more.
That’s part of the Communist Party’s strategy in this country.
It predates the Communist Party, it's part of the inherent ethos of "the left" dating back to the French Revolution.
I swear man. People these days just believe anything they hear. On both left and right.
Thanks for posting
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