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Quite the virtue signals from somebody fake elected on a wave of Cartel political murders. But then, that's their way, isn't it?

And, just like that, the Mexican President tells all her cartel buddies to pony up a fake Potemkin drug interception. Suddenly, they are all competency, morality and alacrity.
Like here, the stuff will be warehoused, inventoried then back on the street in short order through corrupt officials. No harm done to the profits, maybe an extra cut for the politicians and police.

Funny how they knew so fast after the tariff information how and where to make the busts.

I guess nobody told them this isn't the best way to impress your host country that you should be allowed to stay. Maybe some of them will accidentally be included on the planes destined for firing squads in Colombia and Venezuela.

DOGEWontAmountToShit says

AmericanKulak says

There's only one problem. 75% of Canadian exports go to the USA. Only 12% of US imports come from Canada.

Alright! Ppl read my shit!

DOGEWontAmountToShit says

Also:

If Free Trade worked, economists would be pointing to your wallet, to productivity and wage gain relationship improving rather than seperating wildly, to median wages rising faster than inflation.

They wouldn't blabber about theories.

The moment they say "It would have been worse without it." ask them if they applied to the Nobel committee for inventing an alt history multi-dimensional scanning machine.

ALL of the evidence is that the US is better off with tariffs. Most of our greatest GDP growth was when the tariff was north of 30%.

This is fucking rad!

Britain didn't have Free Trade until 1860, after the steam engine, massive ironworks, etc.

The UK was criss crossed with countless railways by 1860. Even the US East Coast had thousands of miles of rail North to South - all built under a tariff regime we'd consider very high today. Those US tariffs would continue for about another century, and Britain would re-impose tariffs after WW1 to save it's industry and not have a Communist revolution, and of course they'd have been dead ducks 20 years later if they had freely traded their industrial base away.

The highest tariff we ever had was after the Panic of 1890, thanks to McKinley and the Republican Party.

Somebody go look at the growth rate of the US back vis-a-vis "Hurr Durr Free Trade strangle growth according to chalkboard theory but not actual reality"

BTW, Norway's Avg Tariff is very different than the specific 200,300,400% tariffs they have on meat, chicken, vegetables... all things we in the States could provide far chaper.

That's why "Hurr Durr avg. tariff only single digit percent" is a dodge.

It's not the total tariffs on all the internationally ordered categories of everything, it's in what's a competitive advantage that counts.

If China had 6% on Construction Machinery and Cereals (it's 20%+) nobody in the States would care their average rate on pink lawn flamingos and pencils was also only 6% or if their tariff on coffee was 50%.

Why is Canada choosing trade war rather than securing their border and stopping illegal drug smuggling and human trafficking?

Only one reason that makes sense.

Looks like they've been profiting off it.

Ha ha. We can make our own Canadian bacon, hosers!

The Kobeissi Letter
@KobeissiLetter
The trade war has officially begun, here’s our take on it:

1. New tariffs of 25% on Mexico, 25% on Canada, and 10% on China are now live. We must first put this into perspective

2. Mexico and Canada’s exports to the U.S. account for approximately 78% and 77% of their total annual exports, respectively

3. U.S. exports to Mexico and Canada account for approximately 16% and 17% of total U.S. annual exports, respectively

4. U.S. exports to Mexico and Canada are ~$320 billion and ~$360 billion respectively, which is less than 2.5% of U.S. GDP

5. On the other hand, these exports represent 20%–30% of Canada and Mexico’s GDP. This trade war is clearly lopsided

6. The real wildcard here is how China will respond to the additional 10% tariff. We expect higher prices for consumers soon

7. This comes at a particularly important time as DeepSeek has disrupted AI, and the U.S. is probing potential illegal chip purchases in China

8. The combination of a trade war and potential new chip bans could significantly weigh on technology stocks

9. U.S. officials are being careful with their comments regarding chip bans and the DeepSeek situation for a reason

10. If these tariffs persist for more than a year, we expect U.S. economic output to decline by an average of ~2% per year through 2026

11. Unless oil prices drop by 80% to ~$15 per barrel, it is unlikely that lower energy prices will offset the effects of tariffs and existing inflation

12. Higher interest rates are here to stay through at least Q3 2025

13. President Trump’s threat to impose 100% tariffs on BRICS countries (which could include more than 30 nations) poses an even greater risk

14. The average U.S. tariff rate is set to rise to ~22% under President Trump—more than 5 times the average over the last 30 years

As an investor, you CANNOT change the market. You can only react to CHANGES in the market.

The coming volatility will be a tradable opportunity.

https://x.com/KobeissiLetter/status/1886063811687293276

DOGEWontAmountToShit says

The coming volatility will be a tradable opportunity.

Always is.

Her targeted audience are LP voters in Canada, not Americans.

https://youtu.be/-o7XTmd89KM?si=YxISlzx_CFd7dRNx

RWSGFY says

AmericanKulak says

RWSGFY says

They have an army, don't they?

I'm not even sure Canada has an icebreaker anymore.

Yeah, they even rented Leo-2 tanks from Zee Germans when they were deployed in Afghanistan.

But in reality you don't need tanks or icebreakers to seal the border - just lotsa boots on the ground and drones in the air. So I still don't understand the choice they made.

RWSGFY says

But in reality you don't need tanks or icebreakers to seal the border - just lotsa boots on the ground and drones in the air. So I still don't understand the choice they made.

You DO need them to guard the arctic, another job the Canucks have passed on to the USA by underfunding their military.

AmericanKulak says

RWSGFY says

But in reality you don't need tanks or icebreakers to seal the border - just lotsa boots on the ground and drones in the air. So I still don't understand the choice they made.

You DO need them to guard the arctic, another job the Canucks have passed on to the USA by underfunding their military.

I doubt fentanyl and illegals arrive from the Arctic so I'm sure a deal along the lines of "we seal our land border NOW and do this and that in Arctic over the next 2 years" could be made.

The real problem with Canada is the money laundering in Toronto Casinos, Ottawa real estate equity loans, etc.

Trudeau has the story that a former RCMP official worked for a Chinese Fentanyl Kingpin under a media gag order in Canada.

"It's only like 20 pounds of Fentanyl"

In other words, 5.5 million doses. Or 2.25M George Floyd strength doses

Canadian Tariffs:
245% on US Dairy


"But my avg tariff is only a few percent,hurr durr!" It's the comparative advantage tariffs that count.

AmericanKulak says

Canadian Tariffs:
245% on US Dairy

So they're going after Wisconsin. Lol. Big boy move. Going after 6m people that mostly live in Milwaukee, Racine and Madison. Ohhhhhhhhh god. Their farmers will sell the cheese and milk elsewhere. There's plenty of demand.

Canada is going after maybe 20,000 people that are Dairy farmers in the US, mostly Wisconsin. If that. I know the result is you have existing cows and you'll continue to produce the milk needed with what you have. It will DROP the prices for US citizens because we'll have more cheese and milk than anyone has ever seen.

Gotta own when you don't have the leverage and get it right. 245% on dairy is stupid. It doesn't move the needle for ordinary Americans. They just notice cheaper milk and cheese on the shelf. I think a lot of these countries don't really comprehend the leverage we have.

Tariffs are 'old school' economics to preserve the sanctity of borders and unity of rule over an area. What history can be gleaned as real, tariffs were used to create a differential that bled other economies while favoring a domestic economy, or even allowed domestic economy to remain domestic rather than a fulcrum of dependency elsewhere. Even a small hand on the scale of differential trades could strengthen the home front and weaken rivals over time.

If you force foreign manufacturers to place factories here, there is always a leverage threat of nationalization which keeps things 'friendly' so to speak.

USA can make anything it needs or wants for the most part. The only thing the NWO wanted from us was a war economy. Everything else was expendable. 'Free Trade' is a myth because it is like the myth of the Commons. It presumes that everybody is playing fair on an equal playing field, observes ethics and protocols, considers the welfare of others, but that is never the case in reality.

China contemplates its trade and manufacturing advantages as something to be weaponized against its patronages in the West. We have also been suckers more or less handed over to them by the NWO types. China tends to operate on basis of a backlog of Revenge Karma against the Western Powers.

Trump is obviously using tariffs to 'restore' domestic manufacturing capability and to unseat the Fed and the Vatican IRS parasites. He is trying to make them unnecessary to cut the Gordian Knot of their tentacles in government and economy.

WookieMan says

think a lot of these countries don't really comprehend the leverage we have.

Oh, their leadership do. But they can't project that to their citizens: "Yeah, we ARE America's bitch and can't do shit shit about it. Live with it."

So forget what they say. Or even try to do. It's mostly for show and even contradicts what they said/did before.

Like their counter tariffs on their consumers after yelling about how tariffs hurt US consumers. (My current fav)

Millions of Mexicans and Snow Mexicans are going to be furloughed or outright lose their jobs before they bend the knee. Snow Mexico will even hold an election during all this, probably.

China and CCP crap are so thick in the ether of the West Coast, it is creepy. Trump making serious efforts to annex Canada, Panama and Greenland are pre-emptive before we are encircled. Trump may have to re-annex the entire West Coast as well.

When Trump declared some military (who, what or where still have not been publicly documented) released the water in California and flipped off Newscum, it was a shot over the bow. It's an acknowledgement that the West Coast might have to be liberated and that military will play a role because the occupations have gone too deep.

15 minute cities might be NWO prison and slave colony ethics writ large, but it also fits in with the hive mind of Asians. 15 minute cities are slave batching groups of humanity in controlled surroundings for particular technologic or industrial taskings, and also allows these 'batches' to be summarily disposed of after use in group executions, like throw away slave containers.

CCP was easily willing to murder a million with 5G scalar weapons to kick off the Covid fraud. Those gulags built by the Australians for the Covid 'rebels' had separate pipings into the units that were not for heat, water or utilities. They were literally lines to pipe gases and materials into all the apartments to either quell or kill the residents at will from a centralized location.

Yeah, so far nobody has explained how that "flipped" water gets from PNW to CA.

WookieMan says

So they're going after Wisconsin.

This 245% tariff is PRE-Trump Rate, been there a long while.

LOL!

https://t.me/qthestormrider777/26111

OK, tariffs are in. Where is my Federeal income tax reduction?

I'm paying rent in Mexico, I just sent a WhatsApp message to the owner that I'm deducting a 25% tariff this month.

She was just slightly amused.

Tip: If they're desperate for your money, they'll take a bit of kidding from you.

RWSGFY says

OK, tariffs are in. Where is my Federeal income tax reduction?

Agree on this. There needs to be a follow up