Posted on 04/08/2025 12:42:15 AM PDT by Angelino97
You are correct.
Senate was lost in 1986
I disagree with the approach, but NOT because I disagree with a strategy of trying to get a level playing field. The problem is that there are some who actually don't want a level playing field, but want the end result to be affirmative protectionism to rebuild industries. That's Navarro's point of view, and he's very open about it.
In my opinion, that is batsh*t insane. It is literally impossible to rebuild entire industries domestically in this span of time. Navarro is a pure academic -- three years in the Peace Corps, then his masters from the JFK School of Government at Harvard, then a Ph.D from Harvard. Normally, a guy with that kind of resume would be mocked on here. Talk about someone who has never built anything...that's Navarro.
Even if people agreed with Navarro's end goal of the U.S. importing (and exporting) absolutely nothing, and just being completely self-contained, that would be something that would take a long time to build. Slapping on these kind of tariffs to force a rapid move in the short term will be an absolute disaster.
I've got clients -- American companies -- panicking because they can't get components due to the uncertainty with tariffs. The prices and contracts are up in the air, and it is a disaster. And these are American companies that employ Americans. The ones in favor of it are those who were in completely dying industries, because they have nothing to lose. It's the healthy ones that are losing now.
Ben Shapiro has NEVER been a stalwart friend of MAGA or Donald Trump ... he repeatedly attacks both and then changes his mind, loves both, changes his mind, hates both, changes his mind, loves both, changes his mind ...
there’s no real point in paying attention to a guy like that since whatever he says one day he’s likely to contradict the next day ... the guy either has zero actual principles or is an attention whore or both ...
He lives in the swamp. He is a DC creature.
LOL. First, Shapiro is not a “MAGA ally.” Second, he is saying things about tariffs that a lot of conservatives are saying. Shapiro is smart and makes good points at times. At other times he makes the same comments that everyone else makes. This article says more about Shapiro’s PR agent having a relationship with the Daily Mail than anything else - Shapiro gets an article making him look important and the Dail Mail gets a clickbait headline.
Ben Shapiro is a JEW first and an American second. Alex Jones had a good beatdown on Shapiro.
The guy can talk fast and spew bullshirt twice as fast.
He is basically an ass.
“Shapiro is no “MAGA Ally” he is a backstabbing RINO establishmentarian.”
Musk a backstabber as well? Musk gave Peter Navarro a new nickname today: Peter Retardo
Tariff, tariff, tariff. Talk about mind numbed idiots.
Both Shapiro and the richest man in the world don't have a clue what Trump's doing regarding trade. Tariffs are just the beginning.
Tariff, tariff, tariff. Talk about mind numbed idiots.
Both Shapiro and the richest man in the world don't have a clue what Trump's doing regarding trade. Tariffs are just the beginning.
I’ve known little Benji for a long time. He is an open borders chowderchicken. He is not, nor has he ever been, MAGA.
Globalist fraud.
He’s loyal to globalism first.
He is a globalist first.
My comment was ONLY about the first two words in the article title.
When the first words in a title are an outright lie, I see no point in reading what follows, because whatever follows are likely lies or spin/propaganda too.
He didn’t even make any argument; he just stated his position.
There are a lot of those whose #1 loyalty is to Israel, right here on FR also. I don’t get it at all. We ally ourselves with people who drag us into hell on Earth, at least those in the armed forces. I don’t know why.
I do know it started in WW I, we should have let all parties sort it out.
Right, Shapiro is fresh off the Brett Cooper fiasco, where he fumbled away the best female influencer of the Gen Z space.
No doubt Shapiro is bright, but doesn’t know everything.
Trump is playing monopoly World Edition, in real life, and it’s entertaining as $hit!!!!! LOL
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