Daniel Jupp on what Trump is actually doing with tariffs:
Trump and many other MAGA figures operate on a completely different level from the mainstream NPCs with their programmed 80-year devotion to failed systems, failed institutions and the failed economic theories of an expert class who carefully managed their way to creating a Chinese monster ready to devour them while turning their own countries into increasingly backwards indebted sh*tholes.
The status quo is set up to ensure that China benefits from Western nations declining and failing, while a small number of Western globalist traitors profit from that. The vast majority of ordinary workers find they now live in countries which are falling apart but still claim to be rich. Their living standards and opportunities relentlessly diminish, their towns have no industries, and the best they can hope for is a welfare payment that keeps them in dependent poverty. At the same time people with no skills and backward attitudes are imported by the same economic genius consensus that shifted all manufacturing to China.
And Trump is attempting to stem that 80-year-old tide.
we need more people to understand this.
Manufacturing jobs paid well and brought people into the middle class. Manufacturers needed high school educated people who could operate machinery and college educated/apprenticed folks to handle the accounting, sales, product development etc. It’s a shame that manufacturing jobs were shipped overseas. It’s appalling that industries that we need for self preservation have been sent overseas.
I’ve talked to quite a few business owners over the past couple years that say it’s impossible to hire good help among the young any more.
They can’t take basic direction, they don’t show up, they complain about everything.
Practically every business now has “Help Wanted” and “Now Hiring” signs posted.
There is some accuracy to this statement, but it’s downstream of the other issues. Believe it or not, tariffs and immigration are a huge influence. Kids can’t get those high school jobs that form a work ethic anymore because they are taken by oogaboogas from Shitlandia. Our jobs base is basically people selling cheap Chinese crap to one another. The return of meaningful jobs making things would have a huge impact on this, as well.
“oogaboogas from Shitlandia. ”
That’s no way to talk about citizens….uh…residents, in our nation’s capital and other cities nationwide.
But LMAO, I’m going to appropriate that for my own use!
Incorrect, there is no plan and there is no master strategy. That is why there is a mishmash of random policies, some good, some indifferent, and some stupid. Closing the boarders and mass deportation are good, the higher tariffs on China are good (for security reasons), the rest of the tariffs games are a big negative and will hurt the other things he is trying to do.
Amd the discussion of living standards is simply wrong. The data is right amd this author is wrong, you can not tell me things were so lovely in the supposedly great seventies, I was there and remember it.
Also, our industrial output is almost 3 times higher than it was in the 70s. What went away is the jobs because our industrial productivity went up about 6 times higher than 1970. This is a good thing. We also moved away from low value add production to high value add (less consumer goods, more commercial and industrial goods). Again, this is a good thing.
We are the second largest exporter in the world with over 2 trillion in exports (and that under counts it because it that doesn’t count another 1 trillion in service exports). Those are our successful industries, why are we picking fights to help our unsuccessful industries that will punish our successful ones?
If we want to help them, before our tax laws (make production tooling 100% expenseable in year 1), make our environmental laws and other regulations a bit more same. Tariffs fix none of that.
We are richer and growing faster than the countries with high trade barriers (objective facts) – why would we copy them – it is stupid.