The Media is Calling the Shots in the Tariff War

The media is sensationalizing the escalation in hostilities between China and the U.S. while ignoring the 70 countries that have already lined up to negotiate with us. - Elizabeth Stauffer 

Politico‘s Playbook is a widely-read, twice-daily briefing that provides concise summaries of the day’s top stories. 

Anyone who read the Wednesday morning edition could be forgiven for calling their stockbroker and telling them to sell everything in their portfolio. 

It began:

HE REALLY DID IT: President Donald Trump’s “reciprocal” tariffs came into force at midnight, and this morning we awaken to a different world. The free trade system that America has embraced and nurtured since the mid-1930s has been officially torpedoed by direct order of the president...It’s unclear exactly how quickly these and many others tariffs will filter through to product pricing and consumer demand … but filter through they surely will.

Politico mistakenly characterizes the current state of global trade as a “free trade system that America has embraced and nurtured since the mid-1930s.” 

In reality, the widespread use of tariffs and non-tariff barriers by most countries makes today’s system anything but free—particularly for the United States...

Climate extremist convicted after attack on priceless Degas art | Blaze Media

Climate extremist convicted after attack on priceless Degas art | Blaze Media: 

A climate radical from North Carolina is facing hard time now that he has been convicted of federal crimes related to an attack on a priceless work of art two years ago. On April 27, 2023, Timothy Martin and Joanna Smith walked into the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., with the expressed intent of attacking the protective coverings over "Little Dancer, Age Fourteen" by French Impressionist artist Edgar Degas.

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...the rest of the civilized world are beginning to understand that there is now a new order, America has retaken the Mantle and will once again be dictating terms.

It’s very telling that the White House has been inundated with so many requests for Official Diplomatic Meetings in the last week that they are being forced to prioritize the nations based on the importance of their economic impact...

While the unhinged left in this country still likes to underestimate DJT's ability to follow through on his intentions, the rest of the civilized world are beginning to understand that there is now a new order, America has retaken the Mantle and will once again be dictating terms.
But:

"Many countries level tariffs under insidiously Machiavellian conditions such as falsely constructed health and safety barriers, excise and VAT taxes, and currency manipulation...
Getting to zero or identical tariffs with a host of current mercantile trading nations would be an astounding accomplishment..." - Victor Davis Hanson

Lunch video-----VICTOR DAVIS HANSON: What Would it Take to Destroy the United States?

Noon-toon

 

Female fencer disqualified for REFUSING to compete against a man | Blaze Media

Female fencer disqualified for REFUSING to compete against a man | Blaze Media: 

“Maryland’s fencing competition, the Cherry Blossom Open, did turn into a national story after fencer Stephanie Turner refused to compete against a transgender athlete, Redmond Sullivan,” Sara Gonzales of “Sara Gonzales Unfiltered” says.

“I’m sorry, I cannot do this. I am a woman, and this is a man, and this is a women’s tournament. And I will not fence this individual,” the female fencer, Stephanie Turner, gave as reason for refusing to compete.

She speak with forked tongue!

 

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Wait, We Outsourced the 'Crown Jewel' of Global Warming Research to Crackpot Climate Consultants?

We touched upon this briefly in March: liberals were going haywire that Russell Vought, director of the Office of Management and Budget, would take a hatchet to the “crown jewel” of the climate change cult. - Matt Vespa

The National Climate Assessment is a U.S. Global Change Research Program project. 

It’s a multi-billion-dollar operation sanctioned by Congress, but it only has two employees...

• Well, this organization outsources it to a massive government contracting group, ICF, and the people they do business with are prima donna panic peddlers who are pushing for doomsday, though it has yet to materialize. 
• It hasn’t stopped green warriors from embarking on their private jets to ritzy destinations to discuss climate change...

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Obama's Deportations Have Been Mostly for Nonviolent Crimes | TIME

Most Immigrants Deported Under Obama Had Thin or No Criminal Record -  Charlotte Alter

• Most of the 2 million people who have been deported under President Barack Obama were expelled after committing minor infractions, despite Obama’s promise that his administration was targeting immigrants who were threats to the community.
• The New York Times found in an investigation of government records that two-thirds of immigrants deported from the U.S. since 2008 committed minor traffic violations or had no criminal record at all. Another 20% — about 394,000 people — had a criminal record or faced drug charges...

$4.6 BILLION on furnature??!!

 

Levin: Trump Plan a 'Growth Plan'; Democrat Plan a 'Massive Deficit, Anti-American Usurping of the American Taxpayer'

Levin: Trump Plan a 'Growth Plan'; Democrat Plan a 'Massive Deficit, Anti-American Usurping of the American Taxpayer': 

During the opening monologue on Sunday’s broadcast of FNC’s “Life, Liberty & Levin,” host Mark Levin offered his view on President Donald Trump’s tariff plan and contrasted it with the Democratic Party’s approach to the economy.

Levin called the Trump administration’s effort a “growth plan” while criticizing Democrats for their approach centered on the redistribution of wealth.

DOGE Official Confirms What We've Known All Along: Illegal Immigrants Are on Medicaid and Voting By Becky Noble

the real story on illegal immigration during the Biden administration that Democrats told us was absolutely not happening.

• However, as the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) continues to dig into the twisted story of America's finances, we are finding out that the compassion ruse is just that, another Democrat party scheme.

• Adding to this grift is the fact that no identification verification process was in place, and roughly one-quarter of the illegal immigrants who were reviewed by DOGE were never fingerprinted by the Border Patrol.
• The result: around 1.3 million illegal immigrants now receive Medicaid paid for by you, the taxpayer, and voilà, as an illegal immigrant, you will be grateful enough to keep voting Democrat in perpetuity...

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History for April 10

History for April 10 - On-This-Day.com

Joseph Pulitzer 1847 - Publisher, his will left $2 million for a fund which established annual prizes for literature, drama, music and journalism

• 1809 - Austria declared war on France and its forces entered Bavaria.
• 1849 - Walter Hunt patented the safety pin. He sold the rights for $100.
• 1912 - The Titanic set sail from Southampton, England.
• 1919 - In Mexico, revolutionary leader Emiliano Zapata was killed by government troops.
• 1932 - Paul von Hindenburg was elected president of Germany with 19 million votes. Adolf Hitler came in second with 13 million votes.
• 1941 - In World War II, U.S. troops occupied Greenland to prevent Nazi infiltration.
• 1963 - 129 people died when the nuclear-powered submarine USS Thresher failed to surface off Cape Cod, MA.
• 1994 - NATO warplanes launched air strikes for the first time on Serb forces that were advancing on the Bosnian Muslim town of Gordazde. The area had been declared a U.N. safe area.

SCOTUS Allows Trump to Enforce Deportations Under Alien Enemies Act

SCOTUS Allows Trump to Enforce Deportations Under Alien Enemies Act: 

The Supreme Court of the United States lifted a block from U.S. District Judges James Boasberg, which prevented the Trump administration from deporting suspected illegal alien gang members under the 1798 Alien Enemies Act.

The way we were-----The Nazis Who Escaped to Argentina – The Truth Is Finally Coming Out

The local enquiries into grooming gangs are cancelled…

Professor flees Yale, U.S. for Canada due to ‘rise in fascism’

The seemingly perpetually angry philosophy professor who once exclaimed “fuck those assholes” to those who differed with his views on homosexuality is leaving Yale and his country — because fascism is coming. - Dave Huber - Associate Editor 

PBS and NPR this past week gave Jason Stanley wide berth to air his complaints about the still-fledgling Trump second term, during which he compared the current situation to “Jewish intellectuals fleeing Nazi Germany in the 1930s.”...

“[T]he federal government, this fascist regime, has figured out a way to target funds to universities,” Stanley told NPR. “And what we’re seeing are democratic institutions across the United States, including universities, capitulate to these demands.”

Stanley said fighting antisemitism was an “entirely fake reason” to pull funding from universities, and claimed it’s actually increasing anti-Jewish sentiment...

Daniel Jupp - If you are on my friends list and bleat and whine about the poor Palestinians I have made my position clear lots of times.

But since some choose to quote Hamas declarations of casualty rates while rhetorically asking why the Palestinians are the ‘bad guys’ I’ll share my response here:

“Yes the Palestinians are the fucking bad guys 

• because they START every single round of violence, 
• because their death rates are increased by them using their own people as human shields, 
• because they try to maximise civilian casualties including their own for terror (Israeli civilian casualties) and propaganda (Palestinian civilian casualties), 
• because they fire thousands of rockets and Israeli casualties are only lowered by the protective measures Israel takes that people like you call tyranny and apartheid.
• They are the fucking bad guys because they engage in the most brutal,vicious, depraved, animalistic evil imaginable. They are the fucking bad guys because they rape women and children and torture children to death while laughing.
• It’s not about the numbers, it’s about who is responsible for the numbers and who behaves like filthy disgusting animals.

And people who believe Hamas numbers while ignoring the filthy disgusting behaviour of the Palestinians are scum.
I hope that clarifies it a bit for you.”...

George Soros and radical groups funding anti-Trump protests | Blaze Media

George Soros and radical groups funding anti-Trump protests | Blaze Media: 

One of these groups is called “Indivisible.”

“Indivisible is sort of the ringleader in a lot of this, and their biggest refrain that they always are pumping through the airwaves is that they are a grassroots organization, that they are people-funded and people-powered,” Winters explains.

“But if you dig into their financials,” she continues, “from the 990 files, where you can see, again by design, not exactly who’s funding them, but overwhelmingly the majority of the funds that support this group come from big dark money-type foundations or philanthropic organizations.”