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"Trump understands that if we don’t manufacture in America, we’re just everyone else’s b*tch."
X.com ^ | 1:00 PM · Feb 15, 2025 | Shawn Ryan✓@ShawnRyan762

Posted on 02/15/2025 12:15:25 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum

"Trump instinctively understands this in a way that the globalist elites do not. They thought outsourcing everything was great. They’re against tariffs—why would you produce in a less efficient economy when you can manufacture wherever it’s cheapest according to global market dynamics? The problem is, they forgot that once you stop making things and your companies no longer produce anything, you lose all leverage—you’ve handed it away to everyone else."

"Shouldn’t we wake up every day thinking, ‘Holy sh*t, everything I have right now is because Xi Jinping hasn’t decided to screw us yet’? And he will do it. People think the first strike in a conflict will be a Chinese warship firing on a U.S. ship in the Taiwan Strait. That’s not the first move. The first move will be Xi calling his allies in the U.S. and saying, ‘If the U.S. government tries to fight back, I will destroy your economy. I’ll do it tomorrow. I’ll revoke all your special waivers, seize your factories, nationalize your workers, and then sell iPhones to the entire world while you become irrelevant overnight.’ That’s the real threat he holds over us."


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TOPICS: Conspiracy
KEYWORDS: 0classonfr; frdegenerates; frpottymouths; manufacturing
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1 posted on 02/15/2025 12:15:25 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

They should have rolled that banner out at the SuperBowl halftime.


2 posted on 02/15/2025 12:17:48 PM PST by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is opinion or satire. Or both.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

The other issue is no high paying jobs, no ability to sell high dollar products. There can only be so many high paying government jobs which produce Zero value. Wonder why we are 36 Trillion in debt? The libs think we can just tax our way out of debt! People are economically hurting, thankfully Trump came along at the right time!


3 posted on 02/15/2025 12:23:37 PM PST by Lockbox (politicians, they all seemed like game show host to me.... Sting)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

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4 posted on 02/15/2025 12:26:46 PM PST by Pollard (Zone 6b)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

America is fortunate. Building construction is not the kind of work you can outsource.


5 posted on 02/15/2025 12:27:43 PM PST by Empire_of_Liberty
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

The self-anointed elites sold America out.


6 posted on 02/15/2025 12:31:47 PM PST by VRW Conspirator (DOGE is no longer just a noun. DOGE is a verb.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

In the voluntary cooperation between buyers and sellers in the marketplace free from gov’t interference, not all buyers have to be servants and not all sellers have to be manufacturers.

The Free Market Economy itself creates the Wealth of a Nation and its people (Adam Smith, The Wealth of Nations”).

Let America do what it does best and let other nations do what they do best and keep the competition open and free.

The consumer AND the economy wins with the best quality products and the best prices.

If another nation’s industry is done more cost effectively with better quality than America, then let the freaking nation do it and let the American consumer win by buying the best quality merchandise at the best price.


7 posted on 02/15/2025 12:31:51 PM PST by Jim W N (MAGA by restoring the Gospel of the Grace of Christ (Jude 3) and our Free Constitutional Republic!)
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To: Jim W N

And if those children can sew all night, you’ll make even more!

What a load.


8 posted on 02/15/2025 12:34:26 PM PST by Empire_of_Liberty
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Ok...
Then get the government off the backs of business...
Can’t build a new steel mill without at least 6 dozen environmental permits, 4 dozen impact studies and numerous bribes.
Then come the building permits, pollution controls and so on and so on..


9 posted on 02/15/2025 12:34:52 PM PST by joe fonebone (And the people said NO! The End)
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To: Empire_of_Liberty

Well, some of has been, sorta. In some states it has been “internally outsourced” by using cheap illegal Mexican labor. Hopefully that will end soon.


10 posted on 02/15/2025 12:36:04 PM PST by redfreedom (Happiness is shopping at Walmart and not hearing Spanish once!)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

The issue is more and more complex than that.

It is not so much that we should manufacture everything. We should understand what is important for us to manufacture ourseleves, for any number of “national interest” reasons, and that includes secure supply chains for those things we ought to be manufacturing ourselves.

Even that will leave a whole host of things it may not make economic sense for us to merely dictate, somehow, that we should manufacture, just to “have more manufacturing here”.

Into that mix you get into the natural resource requirements we have our own supplies for, and those we do not, and if we do not it then requires trade in order for our supply chain to have them. That can lead to additional decisions that suggest importing something is more benefiticial for our economy, if our own supply of some raw material is such (low) that our economy will spend many times over making something here as opposed to importing it.


11 posted on 02/15/2025 12:36:20 PM PST by Wuli
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To: Jim W N

Looks like you actually understand free market economics.


12 posted on 02/15/2025 12:41:57 PM PST by JSM_Liberty
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To: Empire_of_Liberty

The wealth of nations comes from the marketplace FREE from gov’t interference which is VOLUNTARY cooperation, not slavery, between buyers and sellers.

Get a clue.


13 posted on 02/15/2025 12:44:44 PM PST by Jim W N (MAGA by restoring the Gospel of the Grace of Christ (Jude 3) and our Free Constitutional Republic!)
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To: JSM_Liberty

They should teach Econ 101 and 102 in at least high school.

So much ignorance around.


14 posted on 02/15/2025 12:45:53 PM PST by Jim W N (MAGA by restoring the Gospel of the Grace of Christ (Jude 3) and our Free Constitutional Republic!)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Plus, there are TONS of empty factories out there, waiting to be filled, especially in the South.


15 posted on 02/15/2025 12:46:42 PM PST by struggle
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Plus, there are TONS of empty factories out there, waiting to be filled, especially in the South.


16 posted on 02/15/2025 12:46:43 PM PST by struggle
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To: Jim W N

You get one. You can save a lot of money when you run over your workforce with tanks.


17 posted on 02/15/2025 12:51:32 PM PST by Empire_of_Liberty
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To: BenLurkin

They should have rolled that banner out at the SuperBowl halftime.


They could have gotten Samuel L. Jackson to say, “Does Donald Trump look like a bitch?”


18 posted on 02/15/2025 12:53:12 PM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: Empire_of_Liberty

What ever you’re talking about, it’s not the Free Market Economy.


19 posted on 02/15/2025 12:54:16 PM PST by Jim W N (MAGA by restoring the Gospel of the Grace of Christ (Jude 3) and our Free Constitutional Republic!)
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To: Jim W N

Free Trade is a myth, it’s like Utopia, it cannot happen in the real world.


20 posted on 02/15/2025 12:56:51 PM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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