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The Revolution Continues's avatar

I think Trump's decision to put tariff on every country in the world (or near abouts) proves he's not using A.I. but he's using an A.S.S. -- Artificial Stupidity System.

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Longtrail's avatar

I've been a subscriber of SONAR21 for years. Regarding trump, Larry's a trump syncophant. I believe Larry voted for trump 3 times. I did the first 2. I couldn't support any R🇮🇱 or D🇮🇱 anymore so I voted Green. Oops! The candidate Jill Stein is a Jew! I voted for Jill Stein anyway because she supports Palestine and is anti-Zionist. She got 0.04% of the vote. Figures, the zionists control our government by means of AIPAC🇺🇸🇮🇱.

The new President of Mexico is Claudia Sheinbaum, a Jew. She didn't get votes from the Zio-Blok🇮🇱 in Mexico City but won non the less. She's an Environmental Engineering Professor and Jill Stein is an MD.

Last week La Presidente Sheinbaum invited the Embassador of Palestine to Mexico to formally recognize Palestine!🇵🇸. If we had President Stein instead of a-hole🇮🇱 trump, Palestine would be Free!🇵🇸

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Truth Seeking Missile's avatar

Stein claims to be an anti-zionist but she said Israel has a right to exist and to defend itself. Perhaps she changed her mind along the way. Not all jews are evil, just Jewish Nationalists, same as with Christian Nationalists and Islamic Nationalists. When they start infusing politics with their religion, we get screwed every time.

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Julian Macfarlane's avatar

Stein is a liberal. Therefore always in-between. Including inbetween truth and falsehood.

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Longtrail's avatar

Your CEP is small and you hit the bullseye.

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james (seenitbefore)'s avatar

Your loyalties are clear and your article reflects entirely, the City of London globalist agenda. All of Asia got rich at the expense of the American middle class. Time to pay the piper. How is it that you reject so much of the MSM narrative on Palestine and Ukraine but accept their narrative on the global trade ramifications. To quote VDH, if tariffs are so bad, why have over 150 countries placed tariffs on American products. As a result , If America is going down, then fuck the rest of the world; we'll take them with us. PS: DJT POTUS has been on record since the 80% that tariffs levied against the US would destroy us. Your lack of humanity is showing; nothing protects the laboring classes more than tariffs. Reagan's trickle down might have worked, had the US been protected; instead, most of his stimulus aided EU and Asian corporations.

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Occupy Schagen's avatar

I mostly agree with you James...

The REAL fight that Trump is doing now, with its subtleties and power compared to the other ones (many), is the one between Trump's desire of eternal peace in stead of the eternal wars. And in this he has a FORMIDABLE opponent. Cassandra calls it 'The Monster' and you named it 'The City of London'.

In essence Trump is leading a Class-War against the Monster with 'MAGA'.

The Monster's weapons are words money and time. Its targets seem to be to get Trump (and his team) out of the Administration somehow, ultimately before 2009. Meanwhile it tries to Nazificate and re-arm Europe, so that the new 2009 US-administration can again back the NATO-war with Russia. That means, among other possibilities, bringing Trumps electorate-base down, so that Senate and Congress can start fighting his Administration.

Trump seems to feel that and he is trying to keep his voters support. Maybe we even can see street-fights between MAGA and Antifa (Soros).

Sander.

PS. 'CIVITAS LONDINIUM ESSE DELENDAM'.

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Crush Limbraw's avatar

Karl Denninger for President! And you better read it now....before it's censored:

I will continue to INSIST that I get what I voted for in that regard as well.

You don't like my opinion?

I don't care.

You stupid **********s already expressed that I should be thrown in a concentration camp or be killed outright by starvation or whatever other means of exclusion you could dream up because I refused to take your stupid ****ing (and now known dangerous) shots so if you think I give a **** that you dislike this opinion well, here's where my give-a-**** meter currently stands:

https://market-ticker.org/akcs-www?post=253101

And I knew what it would mean to compressing P/Es too -- because unlike so many others I'm not ****ing stupid.

"We have a $1 trillion trade deficit with China. Hundreds of billions of dollars a year we lose to China, and unless we solve that problem, I’m not going to make a deal," he said. "I’m willing to make a deal with China, but they have to solve this surplus. We have a tremendous deficit problem with China… I want that solved."

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"A deficit is a loss," he said. "We’re going to have surpluses, or we’re, at worst, going to be breaking even. But China would be the worst in the group because the deficit is so big, and it’s not sustainable.

"I was elected on this," Trump added.

Indeed.

I, and everyone else, can choose where my capital goes. I can choose to put it into the stock market which for the last two decades and more has been an "investment" in raping the people of the United States up the ass when it comes to jobs and cost of living.

Or I can put it in Treasuries, where until recently because of the deliberate policy of the US Government I earned nothing -- but now I do earn something.

I give a **** about the future of the country -- including my daughter's future in this country.

I voted to put a stop to this financial rape.

Oh by the way, I ALSO voted for an end to the financial******served upon Americans from both the medical industry and illegals as well.

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james (seenitbefore)'s avatar

Not certain why you replied to me with a largely non-sequitur.

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Crush Limbraw's avatar

If Karl Denninger is 'non-sequitur' - I'd like to see what is 'sequitur' - maybe you should read what he wrote? All of it!

And here's more:

As a former believer in 'free trade' - and now a convert to tariff management - I defer to Karl Denninger and Vox Day for their expert analysis - https://crushlimbraw.blogspot.com/search?q=Tariffs&max-results=20&by-date=true&m=1 - a list of headnotes to articles providing extensive analysis by various authors.

In addition, as KD so succinctly proves, tariffs are only a minor part of our current national financial disorder - there's a much bigger elephant in the room - our Medical Mafia:

Yes-no-maybe……dealing only with tariffs – without addressing Immigration/Repatriations-Real EstateBubble-Medical Mafia-War Games Monopoly-etcetc – will be irrelevant. Trump needs to address DaWholeEnchilada….or go home – game’s over!

Thursday I posted:

Will Trump REALLY DO IT? Fulfill His Promises? Why Do I Ask?

A couple of days before I read Karl Denninger’s “Trump Has Done — And Will Do — It All”

https://crushlimbraw.blogspot.com/2025/04/will-trump-really-do-it-fulfill-his.html?m=0

After I read it all, including the comments…..and was reminded it was April Fools Day! Ouch!

Yet later – “He Wasn’t Kidding” – by KD

But consider what might be in store – when you read KD’s April 1 article, here’s what’s next: Immigration, Medical Mafia, Energy, Housing… just for starters. You really should read it all – WHY?

Consider – in order for MAGA to become REALITY – America and President Trump have to get serious – NOW! There will be no second chance – this is it. It is truly ironic – what Denninger laid out – and he has been doing it for weeks or months now – is what is necessary to restore our country as a whole. Piecemeal is DEAD!

And it all might have come together as an April Fool Joke!

Also – when will we stop panicking like a bunch of mindless ninnies who missed their lunch?

Read – https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/your-discomfort-means-its-working – the fact that DaMSM is screaming means it’s working, duh!

Time and time again, I have complained on this blog that monetary and fiscal policy in this country are run like an infant in a candy store. We do whatever we want, spend whatever we want, throw a tantrum when we don’t get what we want, barely think about the decisions we make, and sacrifice and mortgage anything not nailed down to ensure that our quality of life as it exists today can continue for just one more day (speaking of which, have we audited Fort Knox yet?).

The nearsightedness of our policymaking in this country has been breathtaking.

And today, Karl Denninger doubles down on DaNaySayers: So what's the salient driving difference here?

Health care cost.

Not quality, cost.

https://market-ticker.org/akcs-www?post=253098

We have added 600,000 "health care" jobs over the last 12 months yet the non-institutional civilian population -- a decent proxy for the change in population as a whole -- has risen by 5.1 million. In other words you're expecting me to believe that we need one health care worker for every 8.5 people in America.

Quite-clearly: No we don't

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Jo Waller's avatar

It's nice that we can all now see what the 'globalist' agenda was created for. To convince the American middle classes that it's all of Asia (and the EU) who are getting rich at their expense and not who it actually is- those who created the fake globalist agenda ie US 1% oligarchs who control Washington. Nothing will affect the labouring classes more than Trumps tariffs but not by protecting them. They will suffer but the 1% won't.

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Cassandra Occupy's avatar

Thank you Julian... Interesting results with AI.

But never forget its mechanism is based on words...

It doesn't address the 'wordless reality' that is the basis of 'sensing'.

So combining the insights from AI with the popping up of wordless insights would be my choice.

I present you with two Video's (which i have posted on 'X', both from Alex Krainer, over:

1. Please listen to this video-interview with Alex Krainer, dated March 29, 2025.

About the way empires work... (The Deep States, that i call 'The Monster', because they lack all Humanity and Empathy):

->https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xHKw3TtS--o&t=53s

I consider Trump and half of his team as Revolutionary in the class struggle as mentioned. At least his Voters are the majority and they see him as their 'Leader'. Europe's Lower-class leaders are till now disabled or harmless...

2.And the there is this, EU - ELITE GETTING DESPERATE :

🇬🇧🇫🇷🇪🇺EU-Elite To Stage a ' Spectacular ' 🏴‍☠️False-Flag, Send Youth to 😵DIE⚰️ on the Front:

Alex Krainer thinks the Warmongers running the European-Union are getting increasingly desperate as it becomes obvious that 🇺🇦Ukraine cannot achieve victory in the war with 🇷🇺Russia, and he expects them to ramp up wartime propaganda before executing a terrifying false flag operation, in a bid to rally their nations to battle and send their citizens to die on the front lines.

Alex discusses why its more important than ever to fight back against the globalists and reveals why he thinks we are on the verge of a Major Commodities Supercycle.

->https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fuir0s-Tc74&t=65s

I hope you like these different or additional visions...

Cassandra

PS. A Collapse starts with rising Gold prices (like it was last week still). when those get too high, other assets are bought, to get rid of the money that is soon to lose its value... That means 'Stocks', but those are now lowered in price, so the prices will quickly rise again. Those prices are not a tool to decide the health of the economy upon.

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Julian Macfarlane's avatar

Your point of view is always thought-provoking, even when it differs from mine. Your point on the LLM's being based on language and that is one of their weak points, if not the main one is germane. I haven't published the rest of my "debate" with DS yet, but it illustrates the point -- and I think YOUR point too! The "AI" is not a real AI (as Gary Marcus days) it is a Large Language Model. It is up to the user to look beyond language to get any sense from it. Looking forward to publishing your new article on "The Monster" jhere.

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Julian Macfarlane's avatar

Oops. Typos!

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c1ue's avatar

Meh.

Trump's and Bessent's tariff actions have a very clearly expressed basis: that the US is a premium export destination and that exporters should pay for the privilege.

The objective of the tariffs is precisely NOT to be fair. The objective is to either get paid for the privilege of exporting into the US as a premium market, or to create space for the US to reindustrialize via factories being built or moved to the US.

As such, criticizing the method of tariff calculation is stupid because said tariffs were never meant to be "fair" or "objective" or "reasoned". The tariffs are nothing more or less than an expression of believed market power.

Whether this belief is valid or not, we will see.

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Julian Macfarlane's avatar

Yes, but the Trump people claim they are restoring “fairness”!!!

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c1ue's avatar

Yes, they are. Fairness in having American industry compete on a level playing field, to sell products to Americans.

If this means arbitrary high tariffs to keep out unfair competition, well, them's the breaks,

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Julian Macfarlane's avatar

Depends on what is meant by “unfair”.

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Fulgurite's avatar

Almost every paragraph has spelling mistakes or weirdly constructed sentences. Is this all written by AI or copy-pasted into Google Translate?

“I notice that Larry Johnson which suggests that Trump might know what he is doing:”

“Notice” what? “That” what? This sentence doesn’t make any sense.

“Not matter how many times Trump says dumb, uninformed things”

No matter…

“…Trump “owns” the US economy!.”

There is no full stop after an exclamation point.

“The Trump administration's economic policies including tariffs and tax relief for the rich seem destined to create a.)…”

So where is point b.) or point c.)?

“Previously, I had written that current crisis seemed to be recapitulating the Great Depression.”

“Recapitulating” = to summarize, which does not make any sense in this sentence. What you probably meant was “repeating” or “mirroring.”

“If yuu are Donald Trump…”

You…

https://substack.com/@julianmacfarlane/note/c-106954767

“I have known a number of CIA people personally -- both analysts and field operatives. The good ones don't stay long. “

You knew CIA people, but you can’t spell or write English? 🤔

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Steve Naidamast's avatar

Trump is not an economist, just another stupid real estate developer who thinks because he made some money in that field he is then capable of making good decisions in field he has no training in.

And neither is Larry Johnson. Though I can respect Larry's analysis at times, he actually only did 4 years at the CIA before becoming a security analyst. As a result, I don't know what his actual background is to be able to make him an expert on geopolitical events.

I saw a video last night on Trump's economic advisor and if it was an accurate analysis of this person then what we have is two complete idiots making irrational decisions for the entire nation.

My first thought after witnessing the damage that Trump did to our economy was to purchase two easy-to-use crossbows with several hundred bolts. Even though I was an excellent shot, I have an aversion to guns.

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Julian Macfarlane's avatar

I have known a number of CIA people personally -- both analysts and field operatives. The good ones don't stay long.

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kikodg's avatar

Let it percolate for a few months (not 2 days). Give it a chance.

I think there is only one target here. It's China.

Manufacturing doesn't have to return to the USA.

Countries like Vietnam, Taiwan, Japan, India and Singapore will negotiate for zero tariffs as long as all the goods are no longer manufactured in China.

Manufacturing doesn't have to return to the US.

At $6/hour overseas vs $30/hr domestic, it's a no brainer. Manufacturing will shift out of China into those friendlies.

I think that's what Trump meant by boom, boom, boom.

It remains to be seen. But I think this is the likely scenario. An economic sabotage of China is the number one target of this tariff Liberation Day.

I'll wait 4 years for it's fruition.

I'll be 70 by then.🤞🏼

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Steve Naidamast's avatar

I can understand your analysis and I do agree with you that there is a possible end-game to Trump's economic decisions, which no matter how you slice them are irrational.

However, wile the US has been spending all its monies on its military and making war across the world, China has been quietly making trade and infrastructure across a good part of this world.

So while you are correct in that it is highly unlikely that what the US has lost in manufacturing capability will not return to the US in the capacity we once had before both Republicans and Democrats sold our crown jewel to other nations for mere profit, the problem here is that simply focusing on China is very narrow viewpoint.

As a result, what Trump hopes to accomplish against China may have already been realized by the Chinese government, which has already moved to blunt it effects.

One has to remember, Trump is a very mentally ill man with a classic, textbook case or narcissistic, personality disorder, a situation that does not generate rational thought. However, in addition, many of Trump's statements show him to be completely psychotic as well, and his advisors are no better...

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charles leone's avatar

You won't have to wait four years for boom, boom, boom if Trump/Yahu start War With Iran.

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Truth Seeking Missile's avatar

China is the future, America is dead. Stop indulging in the boomer politics of nostalgia. Manufacturing today isn't anything like your old father did.

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