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The Left still owns the media and has for decades. You never cared because they dominated control of the news. You swallow every word. You still do. They pushed a narrative rather than reporting the actual news. Competition exposed their biased reporting. Their market share dwindled. They colluded to silence opposing views. They even pressured cable companies to remove conservative outlets.
YouTubers now attract more viewers than CNN and MSNBC as people seek truthful content. They are losing big time. No one watches their bullshit anymore. The gig is over.
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No ripping off America anymore under this Presidency! GET AFTER IT TRUMP!
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What is happening to USAID will cost untold lives around the world, devastate America's standing, and massively empower China and other countries.
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Fact Sheet: President Donald J. Trump Imposes Tariffs on Imports from Canada, Mexico and China
February 1, 2025
ADDRESSING AN EMERGENCY SITUATION: The extraordinary threat posed by illegal aliens and drugs, including deadly fentanyl, constitutes a national emergency under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA).
- Until the crisis is alleviated, President Donald J. Trump is implementing a 25% additional tariff on imports from Canada and Mexico and a 10% additional tariff on imports from China. Energy resources from Canada will have a lower 10% tariff.
- President Trump is taking bold action to hold Mexico, Canada, and China accountable to their promises of halting illegal immigration and stopping poisonous fentanyl and other drugs from flowing into our country.
- The orders make clear that the flow of contraband drugs like fentanyl to the United States, through illicit distribution networks, has created a national emergency, including a public health crisis. Chinese officials have failed to take the actions necessary to stem the flow of precursor chemicals to known criminal cartels and shut down money laundering by transnational criminal organizations.
- In addition, the Mexican drug trafficking organizations have an intolerable alliance with the government of Mexico. The government of Mexico has afforded safe havens for the cartels to engage in the manufacturing and transportation of dangerous narcotics, which collectively have led to the overdose deaths of hundreds of thousands of American victims. This alliance endangers the national security of the United States, and we must eradicate the influence of these dangerous cartels.
- There is also a growing presence of Mexican cartels operating fentanyl and nitazene synthesis labs in Canada. A recent study recognized Canada’s heightened domestic production of fentanyl, and its growing footprint within international narcotics distribution
USING OUR LEVERAGE TO ENSURE AMERICANS’ SAFETY: Previous Administrations failed to fully leverage America’s economic position as a tool to secure our borders against illegal migration and combat the scourge of fentanyl, preferring to let problems fester.
- Access to the American market is a privilege. The United States has one of the most open economies in the world, and the lowest average tariff rates in the world.
- While trade accounts for 67% of Canada’s GDP, 73% of Mexico’s GDP, and 37% of China’s GDP, it accounts for only 24% of U.S. GDP. However, in 2023 the U.S. trade deficit in goods was the world’s largest at over $1 trillion.
- Tariffs are a powerful, proven source of leverage for protecting the national interest. President Trump is using the tools at hand and taking decisive action that puts Americans’ safety and our national security first.
- Though previous Administrations have failed to leverage America’s combination of exceptional strength and its unique role in world trade to advance the security interests of the American people, President Trump has not.
PRESIDENT TRUMP IS KEEPING HIS PROMISE TO STOP THE FLOOD OF ILLEGAL ALIENS AND DRUGS: When voters overwhelmingly elected Donald J. Trump as President, they gave him a mandate to seal the border. That is exactly what he is doing.
- The Biden Administration’s policies have fueled the worst border crisis in U.S. history.
- More than 10 million illegal aliens attempted to enter the United States under Biden’s leadership, including a rising number of Chinese nationals and people on the terror watchlist.
- This problem is not confined to the southern border – encounters at the northern border with Canada are rising as well.
- The sustained influx of illegal aliens has profound consequences onevery aspect of our national life – overwhelming our schools, lowering our wages, reducing our housing supply and raising rents, overcrowding our hospitals, draining our welfare system, and causing crime.
- Gang members, smugglers, human traffickers, and illegal drugs and narcotics of all kinds are pouring across our borders and into our communities.
- Last fiscal year, Customs and Border Protection (CBP) apprehended more than 21,000 pounds of fentanyl at our borders, enough fentanyl to kill more than 4 billion people.
- It is estimated that federal officials are only able to seize a fraction of the fentanyl smuggled across the southern border.
- These drugs kill tens of thousands of Americans each year, including 75,000 deaths per year attributed to fentanyl alone.
- More Americans are dying from fentanyl overdoses each year than the number of American lives lost in the entirety of the Vietnam War.
BUILDING ON PAST SUCCESS: President Trump continues to demonstrate his commitment to ensuring U.S. trade policy serves the national interest.
- As President Trump said in the Presidential Memorandum on American First Trade Policy, trade policy is a critical component in national security.
- President Trump promised in November to “sign all necessary documents to charge Mexico and Canada a 25% Tariff on ALL products coming into the United States, and its ridiculous Open Borders. This Tariff will remain in effect until such time as Drugs, in particular Fentanyl, and all Illegal Aliens stop this Invasion of our Country!”
- During his first term as President of the United States, President Trump established the President’s Commission on Combating Drug Addiction and the Opioid Crisis and declared the Opioid Crisis a public health emergency.
- President Trump also has a long record of putting America first on trade. In his first term, President Trump successfully used threats of tariffs on Mexico to help secure our border.
- When our national security was threatened by a global oversupply of steel and aluminum, President Trump took swift action to protect America’s national security by implementing tariffs on imports of these goods.
- In response to China’s intellectual property theft, forced technology transfer, and other unreasonable behavior, President Trump acted with conviction to impose tariffs on imports from China, using that leverage to reach a historic bilateral economic agreement.
- Just last week, President Trump leveraged tariffs to successfully resolve national security concerns with Colombia, swiftly reaching an outcome that prioritizes the safety and security of the American people and the sanctity of our national borders.
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="qme" dir="ltr"> <a href="https://t.co/QDfnal5waP">pic.twitter.com/QDfnal5waP</a></p>— Mindsnare from the North (@LigmaMindsnare) <a href="https://twitter.com/LigmaMindsnare/status/1886284735946567818?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" >February 3, 2025</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>Comment -
How the F is someone unelected, unnominated, without any government experience, sympathetic to Russia and without security clearance given full access to America's Federal Payments System?
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He's deliberately causing as much chaos and harm as possible:-
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Just wait till you see what happens Monday.
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Check this out.
Mexico gets eggs for $2.30, Canada for $4.35, and the U.S.?
Ten bucks like we’re bidding at an auction.
Trump’s economy: where “America First” somehow puts Americans last in line.
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As Trump’s dementia has become more severe, he’s developed an obsessive hatred of wind turbines.
Trump spent most of his campaign ranting against windmills, while spewing nonsense about them so incoherent that it could get anyone else involuntarily committed.
Trump has even been attacking windfalls on social media, because he seems to think they’re connected to wind turbines.
So of course once Trump got into office, he immediately took executive action to sabotage the wind energy industry.
Now Shell has announced that it’s killing a major offshore wind turbine project that would have provided energy to a million homes in New Jersey.
So let’s recap.
Trump has developed a psychotic hatred of wind turbines as a result of his advanced dementia, and now a million Americans are going to lose out on an energy source because of it.
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-media-max-width="560"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Twenty years ago, if you asked someone which of the world’s countries was the most diverse, most equitable and most inclusive, they would have answered “the United States.” Not anymore. <br><br>What changed? <a href="https://t.co/LPPOOhh2Aj">https://t.co/LPPOOhh2Aj</a></p>— PragerU (@prageru) <a href="https://twitter.com/prageru/status/1885855658278318193?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" >February 2, 2025</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>Comment -
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">President of Panama just announced that the 2017 agreement with China is null and void <br><br>This is how we start to kick China out of this hemisphere...... Ty, President Trump <br><br>Much more Winning to come tomorrow <br><br> <a href="https://t.co/hlBNgRVRsl">pic.twitter.com/hlBNgRVRsl</a></p>— @Chicago1Ray ���� (@Chicago1Ray) <a href="https://twitter.com/Chicago1Ray/status/1886229225046471004?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" >February 3, 2025</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>Comment -
America still has the 1st Amendment ... but for how long?
LA Mayor Karen Bass has ordered the LAPD to stand down and let people protesting immigration raids and concentration camps exercise their 1st amendment rights unmolested.
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Can you imagine having BILLIONS of dollars, and thinking that those seniors and disabled people living on Social Security HAVE TOO MUCH?
Or those kids in poor families SHOULDN'T BE GIVEN FREE LUNCHES?
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Billionaire Elon Musk’s team yesterday took control of the Treasury’s payment system, thus essentially gaining access to the checkbook with which the United States handles about $6 trillion annually and to all the financial information of Americans and American businesses with it. Apparently, it did not stop there.
Today Ellen Knickmeyer of the Associated Press reported that yesterday two top security officials from the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) tried to stop people associated with Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency, or DOGE, from accessing classified information they did not have security clearance to see. The Trump administration put the officials on leave, and the DOGE team gained access to the information.
Vittoria Elliott of Wired has identified those associated with Musk’s takeover as six “engineers who are barely out of—and in at least one case, purportedly still in—college.” They are connected either to Musk or to his long-time associate Peter Thiel, who backed J.D. Vance’s Senate run eighteen months before he became Trump’s vice presidential running mate. Their names are Akash Bobba, Edward Coristine, Luke Farritor, Gautier Cole Killian, Gavin Kliger, and Ethan Shaotran, and they have little to no experience in government.
Public policy expert Dan Moynihan told reporter Elliott that the fact these people “are not really public officials” makes it hard for Congress to intervene. “So this feels like a hostile takeover of the machinery of governments by the richest man in the world,” he said. Law professor Nick Bednar noted that “it is very unlikely” that the engineers “have the expertise to understand either the law or the administration needs that surround these agencies.”
After Musk’s team breached the USAID computers, cybersecurity specialist Matthew Garrett posted: “Random computers being plugged into federal networks is obviously terrifying in terms of what data they're deliberately accessing, but it's also terrifying because it implies controls are being disabled—unmanaged systems should never have access to this data. Who else has access to those systems?”
USAID receives foreign policy guidance from the State Department. Intelligence agencies must now assume U.S. intelligence systems are insecure.
Musk’s response was to post: “USAID is a criminal organization. Time for it to die.” Also last night, according to Sam Stein of The Bulwark, “the majority of staff in the legislative and public affairs bureau lost access to their emails, implying they’ve been put on admin leave although this was never communicated to them.”
Congress established USAID in 1961 to bring together the many different programs that were administering foreign aid. Focusing on long-term socioeconomic development, USAID has a budget of more than $50 billion, less than 1% of the U.S. annual budget. It is one of the largest aid agencies in the world.
Musk is unelected, and it appears that DOGE has no legal authority. As political scientist Seth Masket put it in tusk: “Elon Musk is not a federal employee, nor has he been appointed by the President nor approved by the Senate to have any leadership role in government. The ‘Department of Government Efficiency,’ announced by Trump in a January 20th executive order, is not truly any sort of government department or agency, and even the executive order uses quotes in the title. It’s perfectly fine to have a marketing gimmick like this, but DOGE does not have power over established government agencies, and Musk has no role in government. It does not matter that he is an ally of the President. Musk is a private citizen taking control of established government offices. That is not efficiency; that is a coup.”
DOGE has simply taken over government systems. Musk, using President Donald Trump’s name, is personally deciding what he thinks should be cut from the U.S. government.
Today, Musk reposted a social media post from MAGA religious extremist General Mike Flynn, who resigned from his position as Trump’s national security advisor in 2017 after pleading guilty to secret conversations with a Russian agent—for which Trump pardoned him—and who publicly embraced the QAnon conspiracy theory. In today’s post, Flynn complained about “the ‘Lutheran’ faith” and, referring to federal grants provided to Lutheran Family Services and affiliated organizations, said, “this use of ‘religion’ as a money laundering operation must end.” Musk added: “The [DOGE] team is rapidly shutting down these illegal payments.”
In fact, this is money appropriated by Congress, and its payment is required by law. Republican lawmakers have pushed government subsidies and grants toward religious organizations for years, and Lutheran Social Services is one of the largest employers in South Dakota, where it operates senior living facilities.
South Dakota is the home of Senate majority leader John Thune, who has not been a strong Trump supporter, as well as Homeland Security secretary nominee Kristi Noem.
The news that DOGE has taken over U.S. government computers is not the only bombshell this weekend.
Another is that Trump has declared a trade war with the top trading partners of the United States: Mexico, Canada, and China. Although his first administration negotiated the current trade agreement between the U.S., Mexico, and Canada, on Saturday Trump broke the terms of that treaty.
He slapped tariffs of 25% on goods coming from Mexico and Canada, tariffs of 10% on Canadian energy, and tariffs of 10% on goods coming from China. He said he was doing so to force Mexico and Canada to do more about undocumented migration and drug trafficking, but while precursor chemicals to make fentanyl come from China and undocumented migrants come over the southern border with Mexico, Canada accounts for only about 1% of both. Further, Trump has diverted Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents combating drug trafficking to his immigration sweeps.
As soon as he took office, Trump designated Mexican drug cartels as foreign terrorist organizations, and on Friday, Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth responded that “all options will be on the table” when a Fox News Channel host asked if the military will strike within Mexico. Today Trump was clearer: he posted on social media that without U.S. trade—which Trump somehow thinks is a “massive subsidy”—“Canada ceases to exist as a viable Country. Harsh but true! Therefore, Canada should become our Cherished 51st State. Much lower taxes, and far better military protection for the people of Canada—AND NO TARIFFS!”
Trump inherited the best economy in the world from his predecessor, President Joe Biden, but on Friday, as soon as White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt confirmed that Trump would levy the tariffs, the stock market plunged. Trump, who during his campaign insisted that tariffs would boost the economy, today said that Americans could feel “SOME PAIN” from them. He added “BUT WE WILL MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN, AND IT WILL ALL BE WORTH THE PRICE THAT MUST BE PAID.” Tonight, stock market futures dropped 450 points before trading opens tomorrow.
Mexican president Claudia Sheinbaum wrote, “We categorically reject the White House’s slander that the Mexican government has alliances with criminal organizations, as well as any intention of meddling in our territory,” and has promised retaliatory tariffs. China noted that it has been working with the U.S. to regulate precursor chemicals since 2019 and said it would sue the U.S. before the World Trade Organization.
Canada’s prime minister Justin Trudeau announced more than $100 billion in retaliatory 25% tariffs and then spoke directly to Americans. Echoing what economists have said all along, Trudeau warned that tariffs would cost jobs, raise prices, and limit the precious metals necessary for U.S. security. But then he turned from economics to principles.
“As President John F. Kennedy said many years ago,” Trudeau began, “geography has made us neighbours. History has made us friends, economics has made us partners and necessity has made us allies.” He noted that “from the beaches of Normandy to the mountains of the Korean Peninsula, from the fields of Flanders to the streets of Kandahar,” Canadians “have “fought and died alongside you.”
“During the summer of 2005, when Hurricane Katrina ravaged your great city of New Orleans, or mere weeks ago when we sent water bombers to tackle the wildfires in California. During the day, the world stood still—Sept. 11, 2001—when we provided refuge to stranded passengers and planes, we were always there, standing with you, grieving with you, the American people.
“Together, we’ve built the most successful economic, military and security partnership the world has ever seen. A relationship that has been the envy of the world…. Unfortunately, the actions taken today by the White House split us apart instead of bringing us together.”
Trudeau said Canada’s response would “be far reaching and include everyday items such as American beer, wine and bourbon, fruits and fruit juices, including orange juice, along with vegetables, perfume, clothing and shoes. It’ll include major consumer products like household appliances, furniture and sports equipment, and materials like lumber and plastics, along with much, much more. He assured Canadians: “[W]e are all in this together. The Canadian government, Canadian businesses, Canadian organized labour, Canadian civil society, Canada’s premiers, and tens of millions of Canadians from coast to coast to coast are aligned and united. This is Team Canada at its best.”
Canadian provincial leaders said they were removing alcohol from Republican-dominated states, and Canadian member of parliament Charlie Angus noted that the Liquor Control Board of Ontario buys more wine by dollar value than any other organization in the world and that Canada is the number one export market for Kentucky spirits. The Liquor Control Board of Ontario has stopped all purchases of American beer, wine, and spirits, turning instead to allies and local producers. Canada’s Irving Oil, which provides heating oil to New England, has already told customers that prices will reflect the tariffs.
In a riveting piece today, in his Thinking about…, scholar of authoritarianism Timothy Snyder wrote that “[t]he people who now dominate the executive branch of the government…are acting, quite deliberately, to destroy the nation.” “Think of the federal government as a car,” he wrote. “You might have thought that the election was like getting the car serviced. Instead, when you come into the shop, the mechanics, who somehow don’t look like mechanics, tell you that they have taken the parts of your car that work and sold them and kept the money. And that this was the most efficient thing to do. And that you should thank them.”
On Friday, James E. Dennehy of the FBI’s New York field office told his staff that they are “in a battle of our own, as good people are being walked out of the F.B.I. and others are being targeted because they did their jobs in accordance with the law and F.B.I. policy.” He vowed that he, anyway, is going to “dig in.”Comment -
Make America Educated Again!
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This dummy thinks he’s some kind of genius, ranting about Canada becoming the 51st state of the U.S. as if it’s some kind of bargaining chip in trade negotiations.
Meanwhile, Canadians across the political spectrum—right to left—are appalled by Trump’s actions and rallying behind Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Ummm<br><br>What? <a href="https://t.co/RPk6jY3VHD">https://t.co/RPk6jY3VHD</a></p>— Mike Lee (@BasedMikeLee) <a href="https://twitter.com/BasedMikeLee/status/1886272665541083570?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" >February 3, 2025</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-media-max-width="560"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Biden mocks a reporter with something incoherent and laughs about it to himself. <br><br>If Trump would have done it, the media would have called him crazy but since it’s Biden he gets a pass. <a href="https://t.co/99ZHi0C85W">pic.twitter.com/99ZHi0C85W</a></p>— I Meme Therefore I Am ���� (@ImMeme0) <a href="https://twitter.com/ImMeme0/status/1802825294870655076?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" >June 17, 2024</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>Comment -
Sucks that such a disingenuous and trite line actually inspires people Jibbby.
Using your own eyes and brain and not listening to any outside source, do you really think the situation is that the most powwerful country in the world is actually a complete cuck and lets all these other non-powerful nations rip it off for years on end?
Do you really think that? Or could it be just convenient to cheer for the moronic lies that seem to suit your team today?
It won't be 'convenient' in the future if you don't get woke to the game you are being played by at some point.
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What a F'n dumb ass!
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Sounds like a bunch of convoluted logic.
Is it wrong to do what's best for your country? Since when is hiring competent, successful people bad for the nation? It sounds like you've given up and accepted failure with open arms.
America has been failing for much of the last 25 years. Endless wars, nation-building, massive debt, millions of illegals and misuse of the justice system have allowed those in Washington to profit at the public's expense. Do you really think repeating these actions will yield different results?
Also, it seems you don't understand the meaning of woke and cuck.
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What a F'n POFS!
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I hope it turns out to be best for the country. But as I said to Slew and he ignored, does trying to economically ruin a close ally really seem like a logical early move toward that end to you? I can't see the logic. Seems like a foot shot and negative for USA on the surface.
And I definitely understand what I mean by woke and my suggestion that you should wake up to yourself.
Also very certain of what I mean when I say that America would have to be a massive cuck to genuinely have been letting so many other nations take so much advantage of you. Obv America is nobodies cuck is the exact point. But no doubt you will now just keep arguing that your country is a bullied simp cuck that has never used its power to take advantage of trade partners before Trump.
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