UAW President Shawn Fain, who endorsed Kamala & said ‘Donald Trump is a scab’:
— Breaking911 (@Breaking911) March 27, 2025
“We are ECSTATIC to see an administration finally address the unfair trade laws in this country. These laws have destroyed the American working class.”
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“Trump isn’t doing anything.”
No, he is unilaterally making sweeping, radical changes across a wide range of policy fronts, especially on trade and foreign policy, where he is destabilizing the postwar liberal order. The whole world is reacting to this. You are sealed away in a bubble of people who only care about Israel.
AP:
“WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump said he was placing 25% tariffs on auto imports, a move the White House claims would foster domestic manufacturing but could also put a financial squeeze on automakers that depend on global supply chains.
“This will continue to spur growth,” Trump told reporters Wednesday. “We’ll effectively be charging a 25% tariff.”
The tariffs, which the White House expects to raise $100 billion in revenue annually, could be complicated as even U.S. automakers source their components from around the world. The tax hike starting in April means automakers could face higher costs and lower sales, though Trump argues that the tariffs will lead to more factories opening in the United States and the end of what he judges to be a “ridiculous” supply chain in which auto parts and finished vehicles are manufactured across the United States, Canada and Mexico. …”
“Automakers can respond to President Trump’s new 25 percent tariffs on imported cars and parts in several ways. But all of them cost money and will lead to higher car prices, analysts say.
Manufacturers can try to move production from countries like Mexico to the United States. They can try to increase the number of cars they already make here. They can stop selling imported models, especially ones that are less profitable.
But whatever carmakers decide, car buyers can expect to pay more for new and used vehicles. Estimates vary widely and depend on the model, but the increase could range from around $3,000 for a car made in the United States to well over $10,000 for imported models.
Those figures do not take into account additional tariffs that Mr. Trump said he would announce next week to punish countries that impose tariffs on U.S. goods. He has also said he would increase tariffs further if trading partners like Canada and the European Union raise tariffs in response to his auto tariffs, leading to an escalating tit-for-tat trade war. …
“It is now on the automakers, from the Big Three to Volkswagen and beyond, to bring back good union jobs to the U.S.,” Shawn Fain, the U.A.W. president, said in a statement Wednesday, referring to General Motors, Ford Motor and Stellantis, owner of Chrysler, Jeep and Ram. …”
This is a radical break with the status quo.
It is definitely going to show up in prices for new and used cars too.
Wallace is celebrating more inflationary pressures put on the US White working-class and middle-class with the price of many cars increasing by $4000-$15000 which will have ripple effects through the whole economy. The prices of domestically-made automobiles that won’t be tariffed will not remain static, however, and car manufacturers will raise the prices of non-tariffed cars to match those of the tariffed ones because corporations never miss the chance to pad their bottom line.
Trump’s recession will be self-induced because “Tariffs Are Making Prices Go Up” is dominating all of the news cycles and consumers will pull back on spending because of their belief that goods will be more expensive – which they will be. It’s a Recessionary Doom Loop.
To speak in more general terms, Trump is tired of the short end of the stick double standards of imperialist magnanimity, on all three of im/migration, military alliances and trade policy.
Enjoy the price of a new automobile rising by $10K and used car prices rising in lockstep.
I’ve always opposed globalism and supported American manufacturing. Do you support free trade?
Obviously he supports globalized free trade, because there has to be some Jewish angle in promoting domestic manufacturing. I’m lost to what that might be, but if Zion Don likes it, so must the all powerful and controlling Jews.
@Ron Burgundy and Hunter Wallace,
“Enjoy the price of a new automobile rising by $10K and used car prices rising in lockstep.”
There is no guarantee that will occurr. First, the world markets are nothing but b.s. There is no world market, well at least for the most part. Global corporations have totally put the free market on its head by socializing cost, outsourcing labor, insourcing security, creating tax havens, and in general making a mockery of global markets.
Secondly, the idea that prices will rise, rests on the assumption that there is no flexibility left in profit margins. See the above. In fact what is important to these global baronies is market share. Certain companies have a big cushion on profits that they can shift costs onto and still provide a profit and hardly shift security interests on Wall Street.
Thirdly, most companies that compete against eachother actually aren’t competing. They are owned by the same holding company. What matters is where the profit margins shownup in whicn securities market, whether its Tokyo, New York, Frankfurt, London, etc. All of the costs on tarrifs could theoretically be mitigated and spread out thru various securities markets. What’s important to these global baronies is maintaining market share. If Wall Street gets a hair cut, big deal.
Fourthly, what’s important is national sovereignty, stable and secure supply chains, and the fundamental value of individual wealth. We need to expand the later in the US to recover from the near forty years of dark age exploitation. That can only be done by shifting income away from Wall Street and toward Main Street. That can only happen by creating more high value jobs and businesses at home. That can only happen thru insourcing those high value jobs and businesses back to the US and reducing labor supply at home. That in turn is why we need tarrifs and immigration restrictions.
In terms of automobile manufacturing jobs, Trump is looking to create at least 500,000-850,000 new jobs in that sector. If labor policies work as expected, we should see a rise in their hourly wages from $23-26 per hour up to 35$ per hour. This will also bring in additional tax revenue. The combination of tarrif revenue, income tax revenue, and income per capita increases will spread wealth towards the middle and working classes and reduce government debt. Even with a $10,000 increase in auto prices such an increase in income and revenue will be essily absorbed and still provide additional disposable income for consumption and savings. Its a win win.
Aryan Globalist 8200, Trump may be expecting 800,000 jobs from this, but he is likely to get 700,000 robots and 100,000 jobs.
I was at an Eaton factory in Ohio, and was mentioning to a supervisor there that the many robots working there were a surprise. He told me the Union saved 20% of the jobs, but yeah Eaton brought in the robots, and 80% of the workers were let go. The company was going to close the factory and move to Indiana and give the entire assembly line over to the robots. So the Union caved, but saved a few jobs. At least until the next contract.
Ever since the 1880’s the practice of the capitalists and bankers has been to “go with the machines”. The robots are the future on the factory floor.
Income tax is a form of slavery. We are taxed at a higher rate than Medieval serfs. If these tariffs were used to eliminate it, I would be more supportive. This isn’t 1870, and it takes time to re-establish a manufacturing base. I don’t think these tariffs are going to work out like Trump wants them to.
I do support free trade and I do not support protectionist tariffs in the least.
Trump pardoned 4 convicted felons today – one was Trevor Milton whose lawyer is Pam Bondi’s dad – Milton ran Nikola Motors and was convicted of securities fraud and he also gave $2M to the RNC last year (even though he filed for bankruptcy in Feb)- the other 3 guys Trump pardoned ran the BitMEX crypto exchange and were convicted of money-laundering and fraud. It just gets more disgusting and corrupt every day.
Free trade is a myth. As practiced it’s rigged trade. The notion was concocted by a crooked stockbroker named David Ricardo, whose chief client was the Rothschild cartel. One of his more famous scams was the announcement that Napoleon had defeated Wellington at Waterloo, which launched a massive panic sell-off in the London markets which enabled the Rothschilds and their associates to buy the British Empire for pennies on the pound. There’s nothing free about a rigged market and nothing free about rigged trade.
The trouble is, the West has unions. China doesn’t. They have cheap/slave labour, and no safety or environmental regulations. The cheaper costs are passed on to Western consumer’s, while the higher cost of local labour is passed on for local products.
The key is a multi pronged approach. Keep unions from meddling in company policy, and have tariffs in place that equal whatever the individual country uses against US products.
I’m not an economist, but you can’t return local manufacturing unit you remove Chinas/Asias advantage.
https://www.dailynews.com/2025/03/28/trumps-fcc-commissioner-opens-investigation-into-walt-disney-co-and-abc-for-diversity-policies/
Obviously some chosen one has a bone to pick with Disney. Donald Trump does the bidding of his masters, so you can be darn well sure that Disney being forced to make movies set in their proper geographical and historical context with appropriate and accurate demographic representations, well you can be sure that somehow this will help facilitate the bombing of Palestinians or something like that.
Disney should be destroyed. It’s a toxic woke sewer, heavily involved with the goings on at Epstein’s Pleasure Island, where select Disney cruise ships made stops. It needs to be killed with fire, along with all who support it. DeSantis revoked their special status in Florida which allowed them to effectively skip taxes.
The 25% tariffs on imported automobiles is a favor to “First Buddy ” Elon Musk’s failing Tesla line of vehicles.
Simple as.
That isn’t the first conflict of interest that Musk has benefited from being a White House insider.
Netanyahu floated the idea of pissrael using Tesla vehicles as the fleet cars and trucks for the terrorist zionist entity in Palestine.
I have been inside factories of Ford, GM, Toyota, Honda, Subaru, Tesla, and Nissan here in the United States. The best functioning ones I saw were Tesla and Toyota. The worst by far are the GM monstrosities. The floor managers at GM I saw were Muslim women wearing headscarves, and were totally incompetent. GM ownership (Black Rock Jews) is killing the company.
I haven’t been to any of the numerous car factories in Canada. They will be shutting down anyway.
Tesla near Austin was a real shocker. There is real intelligence in the design and operation of that place. A lot of very smart engineers on the factory floor. A lot of automation.
The factories in the Southland all seem well run, and also in Indiana. Michigan and Illinois factories not so much.
Hey, Brad. Check your spam trap.
Btw, my friends have always called AFSME, “Axe-Me”. Get it, “Axe-Me”.
“It is definitely going to show up in prices for new and used cars too.”
It will increase inflation even more, yes. I remember when you were complaining loudly about prices during the 2024 campaign. Now? Not so much.
This is why Trump supports massive legal immigration and H1B visas along with Musk. The manufacturing can come back from the third world but Republicans will bring that third world labor with them so the same rotten arrangement continues but with higher prices.
I’ve always supported tariffs and industrial policy going back to when I first read Pat Buchanan.
I thought we were opposed to neoliberalism and globalism? Are we supposed to support that now that Trump is erecting trade barriers?
As for inflation, I fully agree with the argument that a temporary increase in prices due to disruption of the existing trade regime is worth it for the long term benefit of reindustrialization and control over supply chains. This is also different than what Joe Biden did which is just spend trillions of dollars to balloon the national debt and destroy our purchasing power.
Why are you making the stupid legal immigration argument? You know as well as I do that Congress sets the cap on H-1B visas and the number of green cards issued annually. It is up to Congress to change that and there is no will there to pass anything. Trump can’t do it unilaterally. If you are going to blame Trump for undesirable immigration, don’t insult our intelligence.