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“Everyone Should Start Preparing For This....
Macro Minds ^ | 11/7/25 | Thomas Sowell

Posted on 07/13/2025 2:40:05 PM PDT by Eleutheria5

“Everyone Should Start Preparing For This....l Thomas Sowell” - They told you tariffs would destroy the economy. They told you foreign partnerships were sacred. They told you Donald Trump didn’t understand trade. But now—just months after the media assured us he was politically finished—he’s back at the negotiating table, and this time, he’s rewriting the rules in a way they never thought possible. On July 2nd, 2025, with almost no media fanfare, Trump announced a groundbreaking trade deal with Vietnam: 20% tariffs on all imports, 40% on transshipped goods—which are China’s favorite loophole—and in return, Vietnam will allow American exports in tariff-free. It’s a masterstroke of economic nationalism disguised as diplomacy. But here’s the part that should stop you cold: the press barely mentioned it.

Transcript linked below video.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; China; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: ccp; china; fake; fakethomas; fakethomassowell; tariffs; thomassowell; thomassowellburntup; trade; transshipping; transthomas; vietnam
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What's better than Thomas Sowell? Thomas Sowell on fire!
1 posted on 07/13/2025 2:40:05 PM PDT by Eleutheria5
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To: Eleutheria5

Amen!


2 posted on 07/13/2025 2:45:09 PM PDT by SuperLuminal (Where is rabble-rising Sam Adams now that we need him? Is his name Trump, now?)
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Bookmarking


3 posted on 07/13/2025 2:46:49 PM PDT by RandallFlagg (Democrats should have been barred from elections since The Battle Of Athens.)
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surrealism under the dark cloud of Epstein complicity


4 posted on 07/13/2025 2:47:09 PM PDT by Gene Eric
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To: Eleutheria5

Possible AI.

The voice sounds like Thomas Sowell, but if this is AI, it’s a stunningly persuasive impersonation. Sowell has always defended free trade and often warned against tariffs.

So hearing him champion Trump’s Vietnam deal as a strategic, dignity-based doctrine would mark a radical shift. Either the ground is moving—or someone wants us to think it already has.


5 posted on 07/13/2025 2:52:36 PM PDT by RoosterRedux ("There's nothing so inert as a closed mind" )
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To: Eleutheria5

That robotic voice isn’t Thomas.

Does Thomas ever talk in that video?


6 posted on 07/13/2025 2:53:37 PM PDT by ConservativeMind (Trump: Befuddling Democrats, Republicans, and the Media for the benefit of the US and all mankind.)
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To: Eleutheria5

“ Everyone Should Start Preparing For This....l Thomas Sowell” - They told you tariffs would destroy the economy. They told you foreign partnerships were sacred. They told you Donald Trump didn’t understand trade. But now…”

Not reading this

Thomas Sowell?

No

I’ll bet he’s never used the word ‘should’ in any of his writings. Much less the title.


7 posted on 07/13/2025 3:04:55 PM PDT by stanne (Because they were mesmerized by Obama, the man for whom this was named, whose name they left out of )
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To: Eleutheria5

25% of our entire trade deficit is autos. The countries we need a deal with most are those that sell us a lot of cars, but who refuse to allow us to sell cars in their countries.


8 posted on 07/13/2025 3:15:44 PM PDT by TexasFreeper2009
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To: stanne

Free Traitors will never admit they were wrong about tariffs.


9 posted on 07/13/2025 3:17:47 PM PDT by central_va (The I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn...a)
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To: Eleutheria5
The day after this was signed-off, I was browsing YouTube and saw a news headline in Vietnamese about this and it got my curiosity up. So I clicked on the Vietnamese news channel and had Brave translate it....

Hoo-boy, the Vietnamese people are giddy and very excited about this. They like us and like Trump, and see US trade as the vehicle to becoming a more modern society.

Disclosure: I'm not a Vietnamophile, just reporting what the news media said there.

10 posted on 07/13/2025 3:28:22 PM PDT by thescourged1 (Rush, is it time to panic yet? )
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To: ConservativeMind

Agreed. That video is as fake as the Stacey Abrams weight loss plan.


11 posted on 07/13/2025 3:54:01 PM PDT by Tell It Right (1 Thessalonians 5:21 -- Put everything to the test, hold fast to that which is true.)
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To: central_va

I like trumps tariffs.


12 posted on 07/13/2025 3:56:42 PM PDT by stanne (Because they were mesmerized by Obama, the man for whom this was named, whose name they left out of )
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To: stanne

What I find funny about this is Trump knows trade better than most. Trump built hotels, golf courses other buildings all over the world. Materials from all over the world went to those facilities and tariffs were probably applied. In addition, when you are a global builder, you also know intelligence, security and know the local political situation. The political class takes Trump for granted when he knows more about this than just about everyone in congress.


13 posted on 07/13/2025 4:24:49 PM PDT by EQAndyBuzz (TDS much?)
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To: Gene Eric

Hold tight your Emotional Epstein Doll. There’s like home. There’s no place like home.😄


14 posted on 07/13/2025 4:33:27 PM PDT by MotorCityBuck (Keep the change, you are filthy animal !)
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To: Eleutheria5

AI.

It repeats itself - a good economist never repeats himself - it would be a waste of words.


15 posted on 07/13/2025 4:35:37 PM PDT by enumerated (81 million votes my ass)
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To: Eleutheria5; All
Thomas Sowell is 95 and apparently giving more material to only the Macro Minds account in the past three months than he has given since before he gave up his column:

https://m.youtube.com/@MacroMindsYT/videos

This is fraudulent stuff.

It's funny how many people on YouTube and here are not seeing this.

16 posted on 07/13/2025 4:47:42 PM PDT by ConservativeMind (Trump: Befuddling Democrats, Republicans, and the Media for the benefit of the US and all mankind.)
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To: Eleutheria5

I’ve read several of Sowell’s books (and will happily read more), and this does not sound/read like Dr. Sowell.


17 posted on 07/13/2025 5:00:28 PM PDT by EnderWiggin1970
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To: EQAndyBuzz

Same


18 posted on 07/13/2025 5:24:43 PM PDT by stanne (Because they were mesmerized by Obama, the man for whom this was named, whose name they left out of )
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To: Eleutheria5

That is NOT Thomas Sowell.

I suspect the MacroMinds account is AI.

i.e., FAKE.

Compare:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q9LYO_qFLeE


19 posted on 07/13/2025 5:26:18 PM PDT by logi_cal869 (-cynicus the "concern troll" a/o 10/03/2018 /!i!! &@$%&*(@ -')
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To: TexasFreeper2009

And maybe those countries will end up not buying a lot of our cars after we have favorable conditions to market and sell them there. But we won’t know that until we have such conditions and sell under them.


20 posted on 07/13/2025 5:26:55 PM PDT by desertsolitaire
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