Tariffs.... Wins/Losses

POSTED BY: 6ixStringJack
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6IXSTRINGJACK

Tuesday, February 4, 2025 1:20 AM (P)

WINS:

1. January 26th (6 days in office)

Columbia's President accepted any illegal being sent back their way and he also offered to pick all of them up in his own Presidential plane after going on Twitter less than 24 hours earlier to tell everybody why he rejected 2 planeloads of criminal invaders, and letting the world know all about his plans to keep doing so.

https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/colombias-petro-will-not-allow-
us-planes-return-migrants-2025-01-26/

2. February 3rd (14 days in office)

Trump pauses Mexico tariffs for one month after agreement on border troops. Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum agreed to immediately send 10,000 soldiers to her country’s border to prevent the trafficking of fentanyl and other drugs.

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/02/03/trump-tariffs-mexico-canada-china-shei
nbaum-responds.html

LOSSES:

NONE SO FAR (2/3/2025)

Your move, Little Justin.

6IXSTRINGJACK

Tuesday, February 4, 2025 4:13 AM (P)

Quote:
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
Your move, Little Justin.

1 hour ago...

BREAKING: U.S. tariffs on hold 30 days after Canada commits to beef up border security

https://nationalpost.com/news/politics/donald-trump-united-states-just
in-trudeau-canada-trade-war

Canada has agreed to deploy its $1.3 border plan and nearly 10,000 frontline personnel on the border it shares with the United States.

Quote:
OTTAWA — Canada has agreed to deploy its $1.3-billion border enhancement plan along with thousands of frontline personnel to strengthen security on the U.S. boundary in exchange for the White House pausing 25-per-cent tariffs for at least 30 days.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau made the announcement on social media on Monday afternoon shortly after his second phone call of the day with U.S. President Donald Trump.

“I just had a good call with President Trump. Canada is implementing our $1.3 billion border plan — reinforcing the border with new choppers, technology and personnel, enhanced coordination with our American partners, and increased resources to stop the flow of fentanyl. Nearly 10,000 frontline personnel are and will be working on protecting the border,” he wrote.

Trudeau added that Canada will also be making new commitments to appoint a “fentanyl czar”; to list drug cartels as terrorists; and to launch a Canada-U.S. Joint Strike Force to combat organized crime, fentanyl and money laundering — promises he said will cost $200 million. Alberta Premier Danielle Smith had been calling on the federal government to appoint a “border czar” to appease the U.S. administration.

“Proposed tariffs will be paused for at least 30 days while we work together,” Trudeau added.

None of this is going the way you Lefty faggots thought that it would now is it?

We just got 20,000 troops lining up on our borders and we're not paying a dime for them.

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6IXSTRINGJACK

Tuesday, February 4, 2025 7:39 AM (P)

Panama pledges to end key canal deal with China, work with US after Rubio visit

State Department estimates around 72% of all vessels that travel through the Panama Canal are coming from or going to a US port

https://www.foxnews.com/world/panama-pledges-end-key-canal-deal-china-
work-us-after-rubio-visit

Fuckin' Democrats are screwed man.

I can hardly even see them in the rearview mirror anymore.

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JEWELSTAITEFAN

Tuesday, February 11, 2025 1:17 PM (P)

I heard a fleeting piece of info which nobody seemed to notice.

Apparently, before Trump 47, USA had the lowest tariffs in the world.

I don't recall knowing that before.

JAYNEZTOWN

Tuesday, February 11, 2025 3:05 PM (P)

the only people to truly to Tariffs successful are the Japanese on other people, it cut others out of their market they also had a culture of discirmination, isolationism and nationalism and they made cash, got them richer.

However a full trade war hurts the public of nations around the world

In the USA don't expect people to pull together, instead expect selfishness, they abandon stuff, panic-buying; toilet paper, panic buying by gun owners who feared tougher gun control law, New Coke led many to panic buy the original Coke, buying of eggs, 60 IQ people filling plastic bags with gasoline, panic purchasing, a typical chaotic type of herd behavior, in South Korea at least they panic purchased stuff you need...Martial Law, South Korean consumers began panic buying food, water, and other essential goods https://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/tech/2024/12/129_387703.html

got to give him credit on the border and Mexico though, under Biden and Kamala Harris 'whipping hoax' it was a disaster

JAYNEZTOWN

Wednesday, February 12, 2025 5:37 PM (P)

seems China and Canada get closer

Canada eyes more ways to ship oil to China as U.S. threatens trade
https://financialpost.com/commodities/energy/oil-gas/canada-ship-oil-c
hina-us-threatens-trade

JAYNEZTOWN

Tuesday, February 25, 2025 3:02 PM (P)

Trump says he will hit Canada & Mexico with 25% tariff next week after month-long pause

https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/trump-tariffs-next-week-1.7467202

SIGNYM

Tuesday, February 25, 2025 3:31 PM (P)

Apple, facing tariffs on Chinese imports, says it will invest $500 billion in US facilities

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"It may be dangerous to be America's enemy, but to be America's friend is fatal." - Henry Kissinger

AMERICANS SUPPORT AMERICA

JAYNEZTOWN

Saturday, March 8, 2025 3:01 PM (P)

Canada suspends imports from biggest US pork processing plant

https://www.reuters.com/markets/commodities/canada-suspends-imports-bi
ggest-us-pork-processing-plant-2025-03-07/

JAYNEZTOWN

Saturday, March 8, 2025 3:02 PM (P)

Ontario slapping 25% surcharge on U.S.-bound electricity Monday, Ford says

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/ontario-electricity-surcharge-u
s-tariffs-ford-1.7476515

JAYNEZTOWN

Tuesday, March 11, 2025 3:47 PM (P)

B.C. pulling all U.S. booze from government stores, widening red-state liquor ban
https://financialpost.com/pmn/b-c-pulling-all-u-s-booze-from-governmen
t-stores-widening-red-state-liquor-ban

Ontario premier threatens to ‘shut off electricity completely’ for US if trade war escalates
https://www.cnn.com/2025/03/10/business/canada-electricity-us-tariffs-
doug-ford/index.html

JAYNEZTOWN

Thursday, March 20, 2025 5:46 AM (P)

Tesla removed from Vancouver Auto Show

https://www.ctvnews.ca/vancouver/article/tesla-removed-from-vancouver-
auto-show/

vid Tariffs

6IXSTRINGJACK

Thursday, March 20, 2025 9:06 AM (P)

Democrats are just making a Hero out of Elon.

Keep it up.

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BRENDA

Thursday, March 20, 2025 9:50 AM (P)

All American alcohol has been removed from government liquor stores all across Canada. And I would imagine the private ones too in Canada.

6IXSTRINGJACK

Thursday, March 20, 2025 11:14 AM (P)

That's probably for the best.

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JAYNEZTOWN

Thursday, March 27, 2025 2:38 AM (P)

Airline Demand Between Canada & United States Collapses, Down 70%+

https://onemileatatime.com/news/airline-demand-canada-united-states-co
llapses/

Ottawa freezes Tesla’s $43-million rebate payments, bars it from future rebates because of tariffs

https://www.thestar.com/news/canada/ottawa-freezes-tesla-s-43-million-
rebate-payments-bars-it-from-future-rebates-because-of/article_d93ae97a-944c-41c6-bae0-63e905050d87.html

6IXSTRINGJACK

Thursday, March 27, 2025 3:05 AM (P)

Long-term this is going to be better for all Americans.

And the Democratic Party is terrified because if this goes on long enough that Trump can make that true, they will finally be finished as a party.

And so the Democrats are actively cheering now for America to fail, because with checkmate seeming to be increasingly inevitable with every day that passes, it is the only move that they have left available to them.

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JAYNEZTOWN

Thursday, April 3, 2025 11:20 AM (P)

Trump launches tariffs, saying global trade has 'looted, pillaged, raped, plundered' U.S. economy

https://japantoday.com/category/world/Trump-launches-tariffs-saying-gl
obal-trade-has-'looted-pillaged-raped-plundered'-U.S.-economy

6IXSTRINGJACK

Thursday, April 3, 2025 11:42 AM (P)

Well...

Good luck everybody.

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JAYNEZTOWN

Sunday, April 6, 2025 3:13 PM (P)

the Hindi, the Street Shitters

How Will India Navigate a World on the Brink of a Trade War?
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c39jn2ldyrko

"Black Monday Of 1987": US Expert's Stark Warning As Trump Tariffs Rattle Global Markets
https://www.ndtv.com/world-news/trump-tariff-market-news-jim-cramer-wa
rns-of-black-monday-of-1987-historic-market-crash-as-us-tariffs-threaten-trade-war-8099338

Elon Musk calls for ‘zero tariffs’ between US and Europe as he lashes out at Trump adviser behind them
https://www.ladbible.com/news/us-news/elon-musk-us-uk-europe-tariffs-8
79977-20250406

Trump gives stunning response to Wall Street bloodbath as his tariffs cause biggest stock drop since Covid crash
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/yourmoney/article-14565937/wall-street-sto
cks-turmp-tariffs-panic.html

maybe did the math wrong some advisor doesn't know the mathematics of trade...bombed them during Nam, have an economic bomb instead?

Trump’s tariffs on Cambodia deepen wounds of a scarred country
https://www.thetimes.com/world/asia/article/trump-tariffs-cambodia-clo
thing-export-factories-qb6fwqvkz

Marjorie Taylor Green Makes Massive Stock Market Moves to Secure Her Money Just Days Before Trump's Tariff
https://www.ibtimes.sg/marjorie-taylor-green-makes-massive-stock-marke
t-moves-secure-her-money-just-days-before-trumps-79356

Crashes the stock Market, the equivalent of a Soccer Own Goal and Claims He's 'Winning'?

Global recession fears rise as stock market crash follows Trump's tariff policies
https://www.express.co.uk/news/politics/2037288/global-recession-fears
-rise-stock

JAYNEZTOWN

Monday, April 7, 2025 12:55 AM (P)

‘We will win,’ Carney says of Trump’s trade war with Canada

https://www.ctvnews.ca/federal-election-2025/article/carney-outlines-l
iberal-plan-to-boost-skilled-trades-workforce-increase-mobility/

JAYNEZTOWN

Monday, April 7, 2025 8:50 PM (P)

successful businessman, only bankrupted himself, you just don't know how to play 25-D chess

national forests open for logging, sack everyone, it works...Youre Fired!!

the Covid expert with medicine administered by someone who has declared bankruptcy many times!

Scott Bessent downplays market crash, says 'everything is working very smoothly'
https://fortune.com/2025/04/06/scott-bessent-stock-market-crash-short-
term-reaction-trump-tariffs-recession-economy/

Trump Adviser Navarro Dismisses Musk as ‘Car Assembler,’ Criticizes Tesla
https://eletric-vehicles.com/tesla/trump-adviser-navarro-dismisses-mus
k-as-car-assembler-criticizes-tesla/

JAYNEZTOWN

Sunday, April 20, 2025 3:51 PM (P)

going the wrong way

Boeing begins flying back planes refused by Chinese airlines

https://www.bangkokpost.com/business/general/3006447/boeing-begins-fly
ing-back-planes-refused-by-chinese-airlines

if the Middle Class still exists...Trump is literally playing economic wack-a-mole on a daily basis. Zero plan, just outburst and react to the cable news cycle

Donald Trump Tariffs Are Biggest Shock For Middle Class Families Since The 1970s, Says Larry Summers
https://www.benzinga.com/25/04/44781456/trumps-tariff-agenda-is-the-bi
ggest-middle-class-hit-since-the-70s-says-larry-summers

Trump about to trigger greatest trade diversion ever seen
https://asiatimes.com/2025/04/trump-about-to-trigger-greatest-trade-di
version-ever-seen/

Boeing jet goes in the wrong direction, a victim of Trump's tariff war

https://m.economictimes.com/news/international/global-trends/boeing-je
t-returns-to-us-from-china-a-victim-of-trumps-tariff-war/articleshow/120447338.cms

Trump's approval rating on the economy drops to lowest of his presidential career, CNBC Survey finds
https://www.cnbc.com/amp/2025/04/19/trumps-approval-rating-on-economy-
drops-to-lowest-of-his-presidential-careerat-.html

As international tourists pull back on U.S. travel and purchases, $90 billion in lost revenue looms
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcna201640

Fire trucks shortage in US: Chinese factories build fire trucks for $400,000 in six weeks. In the US it's $2 million in 4 years

The dollar's sell-off raises concerns that investors are losing trust in the U.S.
https://www.cbsnews.com/amp/news/us-dollar-value-decline-trump-sell-of
f-tariffs/

THG

Sunday, April 20, 2025 4:41 PM (P)

Quote:
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
WINS:

1. January 26th (6 days in office)

Columbia's President accepted any illegal being sent back their way and he also offered to pick all of them up in his own Presidential plane after going on Twitter less than 24 hours earlier to tell everybody why he rejected 2 planeloads of criminal invaders, and letting the world know all about his plans to keep doing so.

https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/colombias-petro-will-not-allow-
us-planes-return-migrants-2025-01-26/

2. February 3rd (14 days in office)

Trump pauses Mexico tariffs for one month after agreement on border troops. Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum agreed to immediately send 10,000 soldiers to her country’s border to prevent the trafficking of fentanyl and other drugs.

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/02/03/trump-tariffs-mexico-canada-china-shei
nbaum-responds.html

LOSSES:

NONE SO FAR (2/3/2025)

Bam!!!

T

Supreme Court issues SURPRISE decision against Trump

JAYNEZTOWN

Tuesday, April 22, 2025 1:25 PM (P)

Nvidia stock slides 6% as U.S. curbs backfire, boosting China’s chip ambitions
The chipmaker's shares fell again as Huawei and China start life without Nvidia's AI chips

https://qz.com/nvidia-nvda-stock-nasdaq-sp500-huawei-china-chips-18517
77025

JAYNEZTOWN

Monday, May 12, 2025 3:42 PM (P)

Trump acting like a ZogBot seems a little lost, Musk said it was madness, Jeffrey Sachs' speaks about the ZionDon tariffs, not all are fully behind Trump he is not with those Evangelical Q-Anon Magatards at all, he Openly calls Trump dumb.

6IXSTRINGJACK

Monday, May 12, 2025 11:23 PM (P)

Quote:
Originally posted by JAYNEZTOWN:
Trump acting like a ZogBot seems a little lost, Musk said it was madness, Jeffrey Sachs' speaks about the ZionDon tariffs, not all are fully behind Trump he is not with those Evangelical Q-Anon Magatards at all, he Openly calls Trump dumb.

Clickbait from India... Really Jaynez? Right now?

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JAYNEZTOWN

Tuesday, May 13, 2025 9:28 PM (P)

India vids look spam-ish and AI

but Jeffrey Sachs' has been speaking out

Jerome Powell Highlights Trump’s Tariffs As Reason For Inflation Concerns
https://coingape.com/jerome-powell-cites-trumps-tariffs-as-reason-for-
inflation/

The Blame Game: Tariff Trump & "Too Late" Powell
https://rumble.com/v6t69rl-war-time-speaker-johnsons-ukraine-border-de
fense-bill-leaves-us-borders-wid.html

JAYNEZTOWN

Wednesday, May 14, 2025 9:49 PM (P)

Trump's Tariff Blunder Backfires Bigtime

https://www.unz.com/mwhitney/trumps-tariff-blunder-backfires-bigtime/

Carney a political elected winner and the Brexit shit show

JAYNEZTOWN

Wednesday, May 21, 2025 5:17 PM (P)

Japan's exports slow in April as Trump's tariffs dent shipments to U.S.

https://japantoday.com/category/business/japan's-exports-slow-in-a
pril-as-trump's-tariffs-dent-shipments-to-the-u.s.

JAYNEZTOWN

Thursday, May 29, 2025 9:05 PM (P)

Explosive moment top economist delivers seven-word blow to Donald Trump live on BBC

https://www.radiotimes.com/movies/final-destination-bloodlines-soundtr
ack/

US markets mixed after federal court blocks Trump tariffs

https://www.bbc.com/news/live/c2dekzjg6gzt

6IXSTRINGJACK

Thursday, May 29, 2025 9:44 PM (P)

Quote:
Originally posted by JAYNEZTOWN:
Explosive moment top economist delivers seven-word blow to Donald Trump live on BBC

https://www.radiotimes.com/movies/final-destination-bloodlines-soundtr
ack/

I can't tell if this is a joke or not.

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6IXSTRINGJACK

Thursday, May 29, 2025 10:33 PM (P)

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JAYNEZTOWN

Saturday, June 21, 2025 7:36 PM (P)

a war economy now

bombs and missiles flying

Europe-Iran talks yield little in Geneva at 'perilous' moment
https://japantoday.com/category/world/europe-iran-talks-yield-little-i
n-geneva-at-%27perilous%27-moment-ministers-ready-to-meet-again#comments

JAYNEZTOWN

Saturday, June 28, 2025 8:19 PM (P)

Trump ending all trade talks with Canada ‘immediately’

https://www.ctvnews.ca/politics/article/trump-ending-all-trade-talks-w
ith-canada-immediately/

JAYNEZTOWN

Sunday, July 6, 2025 3:35 PM (P)

their Tariffs story based on interviews

JAYNEZTOWN

Monday, July 7, 2025 6:08 PM (P)

BRICS Summit Begins In Rio De Janeiro, Xi Jinping Absent, Putin Joins Via Video Link | WION

PM Modi Joins World Leaders for Family Photo at 17th BRICS Summit in Rio

SECOND

Monday, July 7, 2025 6:50 PM (P)

Trump Admin Insider Blows Lid Off Tariffs: ‘It’s All Fake’

A source close to the MAGA administration suggested the president’s “deals” are all theatrics MADE FOR TV

By Will Neal | Jul. 7 2025 12:00AM EDT

https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-admin-insider-blows-lid-off-tariff
s-its-all-fake/

A source deeply embedded in the Trump administration’s ongoing trade talks accused the Republican president of waging a tariff war for TV ratings.

“[Donald] Trump knows the most interesting part of his presidency is the tariff conversation,” the White House insider, who chose to remain anonymous out of fear of reprisals, told Politico. “It’s all fake. There’s no deadline. It’s a self-imposed landmark in this theatrical show, and that’s where we are.”

In April, the MAGA figurehead paused his sweeping “Liberation Day” tariffs to announce a three-month window for the world to negotiate new trade agreements with the United States—or face the full force of his levies.

In a subsequent interview with Time magazine, Trump claimed to have in principle already “made all the deals” with more than 200 foreign partners, before later suggesting the real number would likely be closer to just a few dozen.

Yet ahead of a self-imposed July 9 deadline, only the UK and China have inked relatively limited arrangements, with less than four days now left to go.

As global markets brace for the Wednesday deadline, Trump has lately appeared full of tough talk in his public appearances, telling reporters Friday he’d already signed more than 12 “take it or leave it” letters to various countries reminding them of the levies they’ll face if a deal is not soon reached, Reuters reported.

On Sunday, Trump announced that the first dozen letters will be sent out this week as Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent confirmed that the looming deadline has been moved again, this time to Aug. 1.

Trump appeared to revel in the uncertainty that his tariff regime has created. “We can do whatever we want,” he said of the deadline during a White House press conference Tuesday, CNBC reported. “We could extend it, we could make it shorter. I’d like to make it shorter.”

That ambivalence apparently has some of the president’s allies questioning just how far he’s willing to go to net new trade opportunities for the country.

“You have wins. Take them,” as the White House insider put it to Politico. “You only have to assume he doesn’t want to take them because he likes the game too much.”

The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two

6IXSTRINGJACK

Monday, July 7, 2025 7:33 PM (P)

A "source", according to The Daily Beast.

Okay.

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SECOND

Tuesday, July 8, 2025 5:44 PM (P)

Quote:
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
A "source", according to The Daily Beast.

Okay.

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How about this "source"? Trump wrote letters explaining his tariffs.

The Tariff Beatings Will Continue Until Morale Improves

News flash: Trump is still Trump

By Paul Krugman | Jul 08, 2025

https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/the-tariff-beatings-will-continue

Many investors seem to have deluded themselves into believing that Trump was done disrupting world trade, and some economists, myself included, were hoping that we wouldn’t keep having to write about stupid, feckless trade policy. But here we go again.

By now we were supposed to have scores of trade deals signed. Instead, yesterday Trump began posting letters on Truth Social (diplomacy!) telling a variety of countries that they would face high tariffs on Aug. 1. The first two letters were to South Korea and Japan, both told that Trump would put a 25 percent tariff on all their exports. Some countries are facing even higher tariffs. Overall, the tariff rates announced so far look very close to the widely ridiculed Liberation Day tariffs announced on April 2.

Honestly, I’ve written so much about tariffs that it’s hard to find new things to say. But let me offer a few notes on where we seem to be now.

These tariffs are really, really high

One way to look at the newly announced tariffs is in the light of history. The infamous Smoot-Hawley tariff of 1930 pushed the average tariff rate to about 20 percent. So far every country that has received a letter will be facing rates higher than that.

Another way to look at it to ask how much we would expect these tariffs to reduce trade. The key number is the elasticity of substitution in world trade — the percent fall in imports caused by a one percent rise in import prices. The median estimate from many studies is 3.8, which implies that in the long run 25 percent tariffs will reduce trans-Pacific trade by almost 60 percent. That’s a lot.

Side note: If I were a government employee, this post would probably be flagged for DEI because I just used the word “trans.”

There were never going to be genuine trade deals

These tariffs are going to hurt South Korea and Japan, although they’ll hurt U.S. consumers even more. So why didn’t Korean and Japanese negotiators make big enough concessions to satisfy Trump?

Because there was nothing for them to concede. South Korea has had a free trade agreement with the United States since 2012, so most U.S. exports to Korea face zero tariffs. Japan, like other wealthy nations, has very low tariffs on most goods. Neither country, then, was in a position to offer big tariff reductions, because their tariffs were already minimal.

Here's part of Trump’s letter to South Korea, alleging that the country’s “Tariff, and Non Tariff, Policies and Trade Barriers” are responsible for the bilateral trade imbalance:

Notice that Trump offered no specifics — because there aren’t any. How were the South Koreans supposed to end unfair trade practices that exist only in Trump’s imagination?

Here’s an analogy that occurred to me: Imagine that you have a belligerent neighbor who threatens to take revenge unless you stop dumping trash on his lawn. You reply, truthfully, that you aren’t dumping trash on his lawn. His response is to accuse you of being intransigent and slash your car’s tires.

The only possible out here would be a series of fake deals, in which countries pretend to have offered significant concessions and Trump claims to have won big victories. Some people still think that will happen — the new tariffs aren

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Thursday, July 10, 2025 7:23 AM (P)

Trump's Dictator Protection Program

Using tariffs to fight democracy

By Paul Krugman | Jul 09, 2025

https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/trumps-dictator-protection-program

Trump’s latest letter, imposing a 50 percent tariff on Brazil, marks a new departure, and I think merits a special bulletin. After all, it’s both evil and megalomaniacal.

Here’s the first page:

Quote:
THE WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON
July 9, 2025

His Excellency
Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva
President of the Federative Republic of Brazil
Brasilia

Dear Mr. President:

I knew and dealt with former President Jair Bolsonaro, and respected him greatly, as did most other Leaders of Countries. The way that Brazil has treated former President Bolsonaro, a Highly Respected Leader throughout the World during his Term, including by the United States, is an international disgrace. This Trial should not be taking place. It is a Witch Hunt that should end IMMEDIATELY!

Due in part to Brazil's insidious attacks on Free Elections, and the fundamental Free Speech Rights of Americans (as lately illustrated by the Brazilian Supreme Court, which has issued hundreds of SECRET and UNLAWFUL Censorship Orders to U.S. Social Media platforms, threatening them with Millions of Dollars in Fines and Eviction from the Brazilian Social Media market), starting on August 1, 2025, we will charge Brazil a Tariff of 50% on any and all Brazilian products sent into the United States, separate from all Sectoral Tariffs. Goods transshipped to evade this 50% Tariff will be subject to that higher Tariff.

In addition, we have had years to discuss our Trading Relationship with Brazil, and have concluded that we must move away from the longstanding, and very unfair trade relationship engendered by Brazil’s Tariff, and Non-Tariff, Policies and Trade Barriers. Our relationship has been, unfortunately, far from Reciprocal.

Please understand that the 50% number is far less than what is needed to have the Level Playing Field we must have with your Country. And it is necessary to have this to rectify the grave injustices of the current regime. As you are aware, there will be no Tariff if Brazil, or companies within your Country, decide to build or manufacture product within the United States and. in fact, we will do every thing possible to get approvals quickly, professionally, and routinely - in other words, in a matter of weeks.

Notice that Trump barely even pretends that there’s an economic justification for this action. This is all about punishing Brazil for putting Jair Bolsonaro on trial.

Bolsonaro, as most readers probably know, is Brazil’s previous president, who lost the last election — but tried to stay in power through a coup overturning that election. Of course that sounds familiar.

Now, this wouldn’t be the first time America has used tariff policy for a political purpose. On the contrary, the international trading system we set up after World War II was in part motivated by the belief of U.S. officials that trade, in addition to being economically beneficial, was a force for peace and would strengthen democracy around the world. They were probably right, and in any case it was a noble goal.

Now Trump is trying to use tariffs to help another wannabe dictator. If you still thought America was one of the world’s good guys, this should tell you whose side we’re on these days.

Why do I say that it’s megalomaniacal? Brazil has more than 200 million people. Here’s where its exports go:

Source: World Trade Organization

Those exports to the U.S. are less than 2 percent of Brazil’s GDP. Does Trump really imagine that he can use tariffs to bully a huge nation, which isn’t even very dependent on the U.S. market, into abandoning democracy?

So as I said, evil and megalomaniacal. If we still had a functioning democracy, th

6IXSTRINGJACK

Thursday, July 10, 2025 8:41 AM (P)

Thanks for continuing to keep a record of all the things that Paul Krugman gets wrong about everything.

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JAYNEZTOWN

Thursday, July 10, 2025 2:23 PM (P)

Donald Trump Vs BRICS: Trump Threatens 10% Tariff On BRICS Nations, Claims Group 'Set Up To Hurt' US

Trump Warns Of New Tariffs: 50% On Copper, 200% On Drugs, 10% On BRICS Nations
https://www.ndtv.com/video/trump-warns-of-new-tariffs-50-on-copper-200
-on-drugs-10-on-brics-nations-963891

Donald Trump threatens extra 10% tariff over ‘anti-American’ Brics policies
https://www.ft.com/content/93398b2a-fd6e-4389-b85b-74a709726738?sharet
ype=gift

Trump doubles down on 10 per cent tariff for BRICS; threatens 200 per cent tariff on pharma
https://www.ibtimes.co.in/trump-doubles-down-10-per-cent-tariff-brics-
threatens-200-per-cent-tariff-pharma-885104

Why is Trump slapping 50% tariffs and singling out Brazil over the Bolsonaro trial?
https://www.firstpost.com/explainers/trump-brazil-tariffs-bolsonaro-tr
ial-relationship-political-trade-explained-13904792.html

Trump Says BRICS Countries to Face 10% Tariff For 'Hurting' US, 'Degenerating' Dollar
https://www.outlookindia.com/international/us/trump-says-brics-countri
es-to-face-10-tariff-for-hurting-us-degenerating-dollar

JAYNEZTOWN

Sunday, July 27, 2025 3:01 PM (P)

U.S. slaps 20.56% anti-dumping duties on Canadian softwood lumber
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/us-hikes-softwood-lumb
er-duties-1.7594807

Lula says the US has ignored Brazil’s attempts to negotiate Trump's announced tariff
https://apnews.com/article/lula-brazil-trump-tariffs-bolsonaro-561abba
98f3a66ef2bfc36c7cb2034a4

Explaining the 1890 McKinley tariffs, and why Trump refers to them

JAYNEZTOWN

Saturday, August 2, 2025 5:06 PM (P)

Trump sets 19% tariff rate on Malaysia, Thailand, Cambodia; 10% global baseline rate

https://www.businesstimes.com.sg/international/global/trump-sets-19-ta
riff-rate-malaysia-thailand-cambodia-10-global-baseline-rate

JAYNEZTOWN

Sunday, August 3, 2025 4:21 PM (P)

India indicates it will keep buying Russian oil despite Trump's threats

https://apnews.com/article/india-russia-oil-trump-dca97e53ed2d6c9976b6
3b5a689de552

JAYNEZTOWN

Monday, August 4, 2025 9:00 PM (P)

Globalist Computer Companies, Land Of The Freedumbs, Incorporated. Blackmailed and cover ups, all those corrupt Police and spy groups and Masons, the Israeli Mossad, KGB, the European Royals
Endless War in the Middle East
...surveillance towers

Sex Offenders in the Admin?

Lawrence Taylor, once arrested in Rockland on sex charge, now on Trump youth fitness panel
https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/lawrence-taylor-once-arrested-rock
land-175212448.html

Epstein Maxwell Hidden Documentary

'This is ridiculous. If a trade deal with Canada is beneficial to the American people then it should go forward regardless of Canada’s stance on Palestine. The benefit of the American people should be the guiding principle here.'
https://x.com/MattWalshBlog/status/1950920569462943804

JAYNEZTOWN

Thursday, August 21, 2025 9:24 PM (P)

Sony announces PS5 price increase due to "challenging economic environment"

https://www.yahoo.com/news/videos/sony-announces-ps5-price-increase-14
0842241.html

JAYNEZTOWN

Saturday, August 23, 2025 11:10 AM (P)

Companies can't hold the line on prices much longer

https://www.axios.com/2025/08/20/trump-tariffs-inflation-home-depot

JAYNEZTOWN

Sunday, August 24, 2025 4:37 PM (P)

Postal services in India, Europe. U.K. to suspend shipment of packages to U.S. over import tariffs
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/european-postal-services-suspend-us-packa
ges-shipment-tariffs/

JAYNEZTOWN

Monday, September 8, 2025 6:24 PM (P)

no more rooftop Koreans

Completely incredible. Lutnick and Trump brag about getting South Korea to invest billions in the U.S., then turn around and arrest South Koreans who were here temporarily in the U.S. to help Hyundai set up a factory in Georgia. The stupidity burns.
https://x.com/JamesSurowiecki/status/1964060601019146396

JAYNEZTOWN

Tuesday, September 9, 2025 3:41 PM (P)

Japan says 3 nationals detained in Hyundai U.S. plant raid

https://japantoday.com/category/national/urgent-japan-says-3-nationals
-detained-in-hyundai-u.s.-plant-raid#comments

JAYNEZTOWN

Monday, September 15, 2025 6:01 PM (P)

Korea’s major US investment projects halted as detained LG Energy workers set for release

https://www.kedglobal.com/business-politics/newsView/ked202509080002

Screw Up...Bankrupt...Economic Impacts

Los Angeles restaurant wave of closures hits industry after wildfires and immigration raids

https://biz.chosun.com/en/en-international/2025/09/15/7L3LWBY4LVBHJDZC
BUXGZ2MEQ4/

Inflation and unemployment filings are up, with no silver lining this time

https://www.axios.com/2025/09/11/cpi-report-unemployment-inflation

As US edges closer to stagflation, economists blame Trump policies

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2025/sep/13/stagflation-economy-t
rump

Stephen Harper says he advised Mark Carney's government to move away from the U.S.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/saskatoon/midwestern-legislative-confer
ence-u-s-canadian-policymakers-1.7595317

Not just the USA, the French problems

France’s Debt Woes Mount as Fitch Downgrades Credit Rating
https://submitted.news/news/politics/frances-debt-woes-mount-as-fitch-
downgrades-credit-rating

6IXSTRINGJACK

Monday, September 15, 2025 10:06 PM (P)

The same idiots making these reports today were the ones who said inflation was transitory and denying that we were in a Recession while Joe* was President.

They are liars and are not to be taken seriously. They will all be out of business soon.

Now We Know: Voters Were Right, ‘Experts’ Wrong, About The Biden Economy

https://issuesinsights.com/2025/09/15/now-we-know-voters-were-right-ex
perts-wrong-about-the-biden-economy/

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The Democrats are the party of Murder.

JAYNEZTOWN

Saturday, September 27, 2025 9:37 PM (P)

Biggest Mistake? Making Everyone His Enemy with Tariffs

6IXSTRINGJACK

Sunday, September 28, 2025 6:06 AM (P)

Tough shit.

Our government has bent us over a barrel for decades to the benefit of everyone else.

Now they can figure out why they can't pay for free healthcare when we're not funding it for them anymore. Especially now that they have to keep up their own armed forces.

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For all that I've blessed, and all that I've wronged. In dreams until my death, I will wander on.

JAYNEZTOWN

Friday, October 24, 2025 8:01 PM (P)

hissy fits

Ontario misrepresent?

'Throwing a fit over an ad': Trump terminates trade talks with Canada

JAYNEZTOWN

Friday, November 14, 2025 3:34 PM (P)

bad diplomacy with Science Getting the Boot?

US ‘disappointed’ that Rolls-Royce will build UK’s first small modular reactors
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/nov/13/us-disappointed-th
at-rolls-royce-will-build-uks-first-small-modular-reactors

JAYNEZTOWN

Wednesday, November 19, 2025 5:08 PM (P)

Swedish deputy PM: 'You need to choose your friends wisely, and Sweden is choosing Canada'

JAYNEZTOWN

Sunday, November 23, 2025 3:26 PM (P)

He was handed a win an open road and easy track to drive the Trump train on...a honeymoon period after the madness of old senile Joe Biden and the laughing jackass Kamala Harris

and yet Trump still manages to build another screw up?

South America = Winner

Trump = Loser
?

Tyson Foods to close major US beef plant as cattle supplies dwindle
https://www.reuters.com/business/tyson-foods-close-us-beef-plant-cattl
e-supplies-dwindle-2025-11-21/

Republicans are mad about Trump importing Argentine beef, but they don’t want to grill him just yet
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/republic
ans-trump-argentina-beef-imports-b2850501.html

Trump expands tariff relief on coffee, fruit and beef from Brazil
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2025/11/20/trump-brazil-tariff
s-coffee-fruit-beef/35db87cc-c664-11f0-be23-3ccb704f61ac_story.html

JAYNEZTOWN

Tuesday, December 9, 2025 3:19 PM (P)

Trump threatens ‘severe’ tariffs on Canadian fertilizer ‘if we have to’

https://globalnews.ca/news/11568842/donald-trump-tariffs-fertilizer-ca
nada/

JAYNEZTOWN

Tuesday, December 30, 2025 7:06 PM (P)

Chlorinated chicken row as US seeks leverage over stalled UK tech

https://www.farminguk.com/news/chlorinated-chicken-row-as-us-seeks-lev
erage-over-stalled-uk-tech-pact_67774.html

JAYNEZTOWN

Sunday, February 8, 2026 2:44 PM (P)

maybe this one goes back a long way the Bay of Pigs and those Soviet Missiles

Cuba adopts urgent measures to protect essential services as US threatens fuel supply
https://www.france24.com/en/americas/20260207-cuba-adopts-urgent-measu
res-to-protect-essential-services-as-us-threatens-fuel-supply

6IXSTRINGJACK

Sunday, February 8, 2026 2:51 PM (P)

Quote:
Originally posted by JAYNEZTOWN:
maybe this one goes back a long way the Bay of Pigs and those Soviet Missiles

Cuba adopts urgent measures to protect essential services as US threatens fuel supply
https://www.france24.com/en/americas/20260207-cuba-adopts-urgent-measu
res-to-protect-essential-services-as-us-threatens-fuel-supply

They can do whatever they want. Cuba can't do shit about nothing.

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Be Nice. Don't be a dick.

JAYNEZTOWN

Tuesday, February 10, 2026 5:19 PM (P)

Europe’s $24 Trillion Breakup With Visa and Mastercard Has Begun

https://europeanbusinessmagazine.com/business/europes-24-trillion-brea
kup-with-visa-and-mastercard-has-begun/

JAYNEZTOWN

Sunday, February 22, 2026 3:34 PM (P)

'Cuba's healthcare system is being pushed to the brink by US blockades,' says health minister

https://www.euronews.com/2026/02/21/cubas-healthcare-system-is-being-p
ushed-to-the-brink-by-us-blockades-says-health-minister

6IXSTRINGJACK

Sunday, February 22, 2026 7:33 PM (P)

Quote:
Originally posted by JAYNEZTOWN:
'Cuba's healthcare system is being pushed to the brink by US blockades,' says health minister

https://www.euronews.com/2026/02/21/cubas-healthcare-system-is-being-p
ushed-to-the-brink-by-us-blockades-says-health-minister

Quote:
Cuba has so far refused to enter into an agreement with the US, with President Miguel Díaz-Canel saying he’ll only negotiate with Washington under equal footing based on respect and has refused to entertain a deal which would undermine his country’s sovereignty.

Well then, go fuck yourself, my dude.

I don't want to hear about your fucking problems, and nobody else gives a shit either.

You can't come to the bargaining table with nothing and make demands.

That blood is on YOUR hands. The death of your people is YOUR fault.

"Equal Footing"??? What the fuck are you smoking, Miguel? You're King Shit of Turd Mountain. You're nothing. You're nobody.

Your "Sovereignty"?

Do you even know what that word means? You're sovereign right now. And you're doing a bang up fucking job at it and your people are all going to die miserably because of you. Maybe the people of Cuba don't deserve sovereignty.

America isn't run by no-good college "educated" white women anymore, and never will be again. You don't like our terms, lil Miggy? Maybe you should go beg China or Russia for money and see what happens to you and your so-called sovereignty.

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Be Nice. Don't be a dick.

JAYNEZTOWN

Monday, February 23, 2026 4:45 PM (P)

China overtakes US as Germany’s top trading partner

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2026/feb/22/china-overtakes-us-as
-germany-top-trading-partner

JAYNEZTOWN

Wednesday, April 15, 2026 4:33 PM (P)

US Treasury's Bessent says China has been unreliable partner by hoarding oil during war
https://www.reuters.com/world/china/us-treasurys-bessent-says-china-ha
s-been-unreliable-partner-by-hoarding-oil-2026-04-14/

JAYNEZTOWN

Saturday, April 18, 2026 7:43 PM (P)

Air Canada will suspend flights to JFK for nearly 5 months as jet fuel costs soar

https://japantoday.com/category/world/air-canada-will-suspend-flights-
to-jfk-for-nearly-5-months-as-jet-fuel-costs-soar

JAYNEZTOWN

Sunday, July 26, 2026 5:05 PM (P)

Shuts the door on the United States political leadership

Trump/USA is banned?

Brazil Denies Visa Requests to U.S. State Department Officials Ahead of Upcoming Elections
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/brazils-denies-visas-us-officials-upcomin
g-elections/?ftag=CNM-00-10aag9b

Trump hits Brazil with new tariffs in sign of what’s ahead
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2026/07/16/trump-announces-new
-25-percent-tariff-goods-brazil/

Brazil blocks visas of U.S. envoys over election interference
https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2026/07/26/world/politics/brazil-vis
as-us-election-interference/

6IXSTRINGJACK

Sunday, July 26, 2026 7:25 PM (P)

Quote:
Originally posted by JAYNEZTOWN:
Shuts the door on the United States political leadership

Trump/USA is banned?

Brazil Denies Visa Requests to U.S. State Department Officials Ahead of Upcoming Elections
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/brazils-denies-visas-us-officials-upcomin
g-elections/?ftag=CNM-00-10aag9b

Did you read the story?

Looks like corruption to me.

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Those who dance always seem crazy to those who can't hear the music.

JAYNEZTOWN

Tuesday, August 4, 2026 8:05 PM (P)

isolationist?

America's Closest Allies Are Building a Future Without It

JAYNEZTOWN

Wednesday, August 5, 2026 3:07 PM (P)

Nightmare for MAGA as voters trust Dems over Republicans on on their economic messaging
https://www.themirror.com/news/politics/nightmare-maga-voters-trust-de
ms-1968268

Trump Is Conceding Hormuz Tolling to Iran
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/trump-conceding-hormuz-tolling-re
gime-to-iran

BP profit highest since 2022 as Iran war pushes up oil price
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cg5l11m02j3o

JAYNEZTOWN

Tuesday, August 18, 2026 3:27 PM (P)

Canada braces for 50% US tariffs, with negotiators still far apart

https://www.reuters.com/legal/transactional/canada-braces-50-us-tariff
s-with-negotiators-still-far-apart-2026-08-17/

JAYNEZTOWN

Sunday, August 30, 2026 5:02 PM (P)

Trump's Economic D-Day Threat Over Iran Branded A 'Complete S**t Show'

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/trumps-economic-d-day-threat-against-ir
an-reaction_n_6a863b29e4b0ca44601b141a