merkelstan
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Just more repetition of the same old lies and dogma.

The whole thing is garbage correlation=causation propaganda that ignores all the other factors. Trade causes wars by causing trade dependency and trade disputes. America has been hemorrhaging manufacturing from free trade since WWII and a few small tariffs on just one or two industries is not going to halt or cause it. Fixing the devastation caused by free trade will possibly lead to some short term pain (not nearly what is fantasized) like ending any addiction, but it is necessary for long term good health and survival. That entire article is goal seeking analysis that ignores the 10 ton elephant in the room (the fed) and all the other elephants in the room that just cherry picks things that can be forced into looking bad for tariffs and ignores the overwhelming success of tariffs in building America from the beginning.

Pro-Fed propaganda. The tariffs did not cause the crash, the Fed did.

And notice that all we get in the post by PAF is a rote repetition of dogma and propaganda, not engagement on the facts and logic.

Sounds like you want no competition, after all free trade concentrates industries in the single country best able to manipulate it, and it concentrates governments into regional and then a single world government. America is a big country, we can have all the competition we need here, especially if we encourage it with smaller internal tariffs to produce lots of different competitors in different regions and states.

A Timely Reminder on Tariffs This is a repeat of a 2018 post that is itself a rehash from a paragraph of my 2009 book entitled The Return of the Great Depression. And contra Martin Armstrong and everyone else who is pontificating about how Trump’s proposed tariffs would “destroy the global economy”, it’s just not true, at least not on the historical comparison to which most of them are appealing. Every single talking head who makes any reference whatsoever to Smoot-Hawley is a poser and a fraud who knows nothing about economics or economic history. This is basically a variant of the “Um, Ricardo?” pseudo-rebuttal to an argument for tariffs or other forms of protectionism. It is proof that the speaker has heard about the subject, but doesn’t actually know the subject at all. The point is so trivial that I dealt with it in a single paragraph in The Return of the Great Depression ten 16 years ago and haven’t seen the need to mention it again since until now. For many years, it was supposed that the Smoot-Hawley tariff of 1930 played a major role in the economic contraction of the Great Depression. As more economists are gradually coming to realize, this was unlikely to have been the case for several reasons. First, the 15.5 percent annual decline in exports from 1929 to 1933 was less precipitous than the pre-tariff 18.3 percent decline from 1920 to 1922. Second, because the amount of imports also fell, the net effect of the $328 million reduction in the balance of trade on the economy amounted to only 0.3 percent of 1929 GDP. Third, the balance of trade turned negative and by 1940 had increased to nearly ten times the size of the 1929 positive balance while the economy was growing.

Doesn't matter. Trump calls the shots on foreign policy, none of his cabinet members last time did.

It's garbage no matter who says it. Just like all the claims Trump was going to do what Bolton wanted last time.

At DEA he has nothing to do with anything like Covid or guns. Trump has removed him from being in a position to tyrannize a county, hopefully after his job is filled back home Trump will fire him. But in the mean time his record would indicate he'd be soft on drugs, which should please libertarians.

What's your excuse going to be when he does? Your routine is getting old.

He's not going to run ATF.

Bunk.

We have every right to keep the migrants out of our territory and to remove any that sneaked in. You can host them right up until they are deported, if they refrain from murdering you in that time.

You can always come detox at Timeless Authors. :)

Yeah, this recycled leftist propaganda doesn't even need a response. The election is over so no votes will be suppressed, and when Trump takes office and begins Making America Great Again the OP will age like the manure it is.

We'll consider it, if they leave the red counties and we get Alberta.

Probably because the state took the data private and doctored it before making it public again, the sources linked to it 4 years ago before it got hidden and changed.

LOL "Your people" voted for the party that forced the pervert garbage down everyone's throats, and they did it all over the country not just in one of the most leftist states in the country. Clinton did Waco, bombed Serbia, instituted "Don't ask, Don't Tell" to let perverts into the military and many other evil things. Obama kept the wars going, he did NOT "end Iraq", he also did too many horrible evil things to count, including ending "Don't ask, Don't tell" and allowing open perverts into the military. "Your people" disproportionately use abortions and commit crimes etc. etc. etc. I've tried to keep race out of this, but if you insist on taking us there then you are stuck with the facts about race.

It was not a lie, they have had 4 years to change the numbers.

No, but it sure beats voting for Clinton, Gore, Kerry, Obama, Clinton, and still leaning towards Harris. Minorities, immigrants, and illegal migrants have given overwhelming support to the party of open evil for generations, while whites gave majority support to the party that claimed to oppose it. YOU brought it into the thread and you kept reinserting it:

Again, you fail to comprehend anything, of course both sources were citing the same government data, that's what they both were exposing, they couldn't cite something else when making claims about the government data. The second source was the person who contacted the Epoch Times who was different than the person who was the one who posted the information in the other article.

I talk about culture and who various populations actually vote for, you always drag it back to race, cherry pick a few people or pieces of history, and try to place blame on the majority of whites while claiming nonwhites to be superior. Every step of the way you bring up race and lie about whites. Me: You: Total garbage as I pointed out, perversion has always been everywhere, but you try to make it out to be something whites invented.

CCP propaganda.

PAF is here to obstruct. His pretended unconstrained vision is a great excuse to make sure no progress is made because nothing is ever his supposed "perfect" utopian pipe dream.

Watch the fed hike now that Trump won.

Can we get the title of this thread changed to remove the "Trump supporter" lie? Epps is a fed provocateur.

You've completely lost it. I said that one of the articles had a second source, I never said you had a second source.

I was not the one who brought up race, you keep dragging race into it and I responded. We can all see who is the race obsessed compulsive liar. Perversion is common all across history and the globe, you are repeating leftist slander against Europeans again. Your evidence just shows that we are speaking a European language and that Europeans were better at recording and preserving their history.

False, he's a globalist, like you.