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AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster, File President Donald Trump began to revolutionize US trade policy for the very much better. We’d spent decades getting royally screwed by everyone else on the planet. We’d spent more than half a century committing slow-motion national suicide to the perpetual benefit of Communist China.
Trump put our outsourcing everything to corrupt China on the national radar. We went from not talking about it at all to roundly denouncing it — in about three Trump seconds. Suddenly everyone was conversant in the Uyghurs’ west China plight. Trump’s “Make America Great Again” easily transmogrified into a national movement to “Make It in America Again.”
Trump’s use of tariffs wasn’t because he liked tariffs. It was because he disliked everyone’s tariffs. And trade limits. And subsides. Trump imposed tariffs upon countries that were massively subsidizing their exports to us and taxing and severely limiting their imports from us. Trump wanted to reduce all of these anti-trade impositions — from and by everyone.
The point of Trump’s trade policy was identical to the point of all Trump policy: Make things better for Average Americans. Outsourcing everything to China and everywhere else is a huge boon to America’s Bigs: Big Tech, Big Business, Big Banks, Big Stock, etc. But it royally screws Average Americans. Allowing foreign countries to export their domestic cronyism to us is a huge boon to America’s relocating Bigs — but it royally screws Average Americans.
Trump was trying to undo many decades of trade dumbness. The underlying theme of all the dumbness was cronyism. Big Cronies benefited; Average Americans got screwed.
Biden’s trade people have spent most of his four months in power almost singularly focused on getting monstrous Big Tech out from under some international digital taxes. Trump, too, was opposed to these taxes. But Biden is nigh myopically working to end/prevent them — to the exclusion of almost all other things trade. It’s almost as if Biden is supplicant to Big Tech’s bidding . “USTR’s potential action against Austria, India, Italy, Spain, Turkey and the U.K. has its roots in the Trump administration. “But U.S. Trade Representative Katherine Tai, […]
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Will America-First News Outlets Make it to 2023?
Things are looking grim for conservative and populist news sites.
There’s something happening behind the scenes at several popular conservative news outlets. 2021 was bad, but 2022 is proving to be disastrous for news sites that aren’t “playing ball” with the corporate media narrative. It’s being said that advertisers are cracking down, forcing some of the biggest ad networks like Google and Yahoo to pull their inventory from conservative outlets. This has had two major effects. First, it has cooled most conservative outlets from discussing “taboo” topics like Pandemic Panic Theater, voter fraud, or The Great Reset. Second, it has isolated those ad networks that aren’t playing ball.
Certain topics are anathema for most ad networks. Speaking out against vaccines or vaccine mandates is a certain path to being demonetized. Highlighting voter fraud in the 2020 and future elections is another instant advertising death penalty. Throw in truthful stories about climate change hysteria, Critical Race Theory, and the border crisis and it’s easy to understand how difficult it is for America-First news outlets to spread the facts, share conservative opinions, and still pay the bills.
Without naming names, I have been told of several news outlets who have been forced to either consolidate with larger organizations or who have backed down on covering certain topics out of fear of being “canceled” by the ad networks. I get it. This is a business for many of us and it’s not very profitable. Those of us who do this for a living are often barely squeaking by, so loss of additional revenue can often mean being forced to make cuts. That means not being able to cover the topics properly. Its a Catch-22: Tell the truth and lose the money necessary to keep telling the truth, or avoid the truth and make enough money to survive. Those who have chosen survival simply aren’t able to spread the truth properly.
We will never avoid the truth. The Lord will provide if it is His will. Our job is simply to share the facts, spread the Gospel, and educate as many Americans as possible while exposing the forces of evil.
To those who have the means, we ask that you please donate. We have options available now, but there is no telling when those options will cancel us. We have our GivingFuel page. There have been many who have been canceled by PayPal, but for now it’s still an option. Your generosity is what keeps these sites running and allows us to get the truth to the masses. We’ve had great success in growing but we know we can do more with your assistance.
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