President Trump Announces Liberation Day

April 2, 2025 Hunter Wallace Capitalism, Conservatism, Economy, Foreign Policy, Geopolitics, Trade 42

The William McKinley biography explained a lot. The end of globalism is inconceivable without Trump’s nostalgia for Gilded Age America.

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  1. This is going to be difficult to balance tariffs with other nations. Many nations , including the US, subsidize export industries by covert means. Subsidies such as, tax rebates. Special bank loans, discount electricity, discounts on raw materials etc.
    China, in particular, must do everything to encourage exports as a means to reduce unemployment . China stands on the verge of revolution, if it can’t reduce poverty via employment. Also somewhat true for some EU nations, not revolution, but dramatic political change.

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  2. Skillful distraction, I admire the audacity. Meanwhile the main event is on the other side of the world. The B-2 bombers with their mini nuke bunker busters are all clustered at Diego Garcia. Two Carrier Groups nearby. Almost everything is in place.

    It took 24 years but Zog is finally about to attack the 7th nation on their hit list. Syria was the 6th and that took awhile, until they bought Putin off and the Russians just walked away,and the astonished Iranians followed.

    War Is Peace, my friends. War is Liberation. Now they have made it illegal in America to speak truth about the Jews, and soon you will see why. Yes, but first TikTok had to be put in Kosher hands. The deadline is Saturday, or it is shut down. One third of Americans get news from TikTok, so that little detail had to be remedied before the bombs start falling.

    That too is Liberty. No one, absolutely no one,has the right to speak truth about a Jew.

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    • The article is about tariffs and the end of promiscuous unprotected trade that has given us economic aids. Where does Israel Derangement Syndrome fit into the story?

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  3. “Liberation Day” – Soviet Premier Donny is even adopting Communist jingoism to go along with his protectionist tariffs and Centrally Planned Economy.

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  4. Tariffs will be yet another Trump foreign policy failure because of the already massive inflation. Gas prices are still up because conservatives now love Musk, so Musk gets another government handout. Deep structural conflicts prevent manufacturing from ever coming back to the USA. There is no plan and never was. Trump is not educated and has no historical context for Mckinley or anyone else from that era. Tariffs for him was a rabble rousing tactic during the campaign to predicate the larger dogwhistles about race. Where did the Wall go? You never hear about that anymore. I expect tariffs will suffer a similar fate.

    Meanwhile Musk thwarted the GOP in Wisconsin. That was good to see. Trump’s coonass governor in Louisiana was rejected in his attempt to do the usual GOP bait and switch for the rich whites so they could run further away with their cuckservative lies. I’m glad the white middle class’s latest white flight is failing. It could be that 2024 was a post-COVID mirage and we see a regression to the Old Deal. Ukraine and even Iran are looking pretty bad for Trump.

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    • Let’s unpack this.

      1. First, Trump was deadly serious about the tariffs and made good on his promise to reset the terms of trade with both our allies and adversaries alike. In doing so, he has created chaos in financial markets and foreign capitals, so the idea that this is all swagger and talk is simply false.

      2. Second, the massive spike in inflation was caused by Biden spending trillions of dollars to “go big” and run the economy hot. Democrats celebrated the wisdom of this at the time. They blamed Obama for his tepid response to the 2008 financial crisis.

      3. Third, there is nothing new about Democrat overperformance in special elections given the tilt of their coalition. It is meaningless. Democrats also overperformed in the 2022 midterms and special elections throughout 2023 and 2024.

      4. Fourth, the wall went to court like everything else, which eventually produced the SCOTUS ruling that he could use military funds to build it. The same is true of other policies like Remain in Mexico which are in place after being mitigated in his first term. Building the wall shouldn’t be a problem this time around given Trump’s standing in the party and control of the Senate.

      5. Gas prices aren’t up. They went down after Biden caved to pressure after the energy shock of 2022. They are still down around like $2.70 a gallon here.

      6. Subordinating trade policy to foreign policy to maintain American leadership of the “rules-based international order” is what offshored manufacturing. European and Asian workers benefitted from that relationship. So did American consumers.

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      • 7. So far Trump has secured commitments for about 5 trillion in industrial investment, two and a half months in. The idea that there can never be industry in the US again is ignorant. Massive capital flight has been happening for years from China, and this money will be a product of much of that. Investors need a stable place to put their money, and our country is exactly that, and never more so than now.

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      • The problem though is so many kids are undisciplined, used to spending their entire shift staring at their iPhone. Not to mention being unable to pass the piss test, that if all the factories stolen from the former paradise of the Great Lakes region were to magically reappear like Brigadoon. They’d have a hard time staffing the operations. Let alone the massive amount of useless, underclass 80 IQ black bastards that have been bred on the taxpayers dime being incapable of all but working in the factory kitchen or sweeping the floor.

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        • Exactly. The American populace is VERY different from what it was in 1960, and I see no sign of it improving. We aren’t being “treated badly” by other countries. We have been treated badly by greedy corporations and our foolish government.
          Americans, individually and their government, spend more than they are making. I don’t think this is going to work out like Trump thinks it will.

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    • To be crystal clear, I don’t support American imperialism in Eurasia or Africa, but North America, Latin America and the eastern Pacific is a different story. There is a far more compelling case for Hawaii which is a floating aircraft carrier in the middle of the Pacific than Afghanistan or Ukraine

      If we hadn’t taken Hawaii under McKinley, Japan would have certainly done so. Japan would have launched its attack on Los Angeles from Pearl Harbor. The people who ran the country back them weren’t dumb and saw the storm clouds on the horizon

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      • Japan taking over Hawaii and Los Angeles!

        Did Hitler invade Poland?

        Anyways,I love Japan!

        World War ll blunders , the two are : Germany, Poland, and Japan!

        Wait!

        That Makes Three!

        I think I’m turning Japanese,

        Like The 80s song says so!

        These tariffs are not going to fix the Rust Belt!

        So I’m the black sheep Who only cares about it!

        Winning!

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      • It was White idiots(American and other globalists of the time) who enabled the industrialization of Japan in the first place. And then some other White idiots(British), thought it would be a great idea to make them even stronger to use against some other Whites(Russia). Whites are truly a brilliant race…giving their best technology to racial competitors, constantly fighting each other, and then getting all worked up over those foreign competitors which they previously enabled. No wonder we are being diminished more with every year.

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      • The Japanese had no intentions to attack the US prior to the corrupt and incompetent FDR administration filled with the usual suspects conspired with Churchill and British intelligence to drag the US into war via embargoes on Japan as the catalyst for the attack on Pearl Harbor.

        As you may or may not know, a large majority of Americans did not want to become entangled in the wars in Europe and East Asia, therefore FDR baited the Japanese to strike and kill 3000 sailers in order to ignite war fever into the American populace.

        Japan only used balloon bombs on a few locations on the west coast,, but they did invade a few of the Alusian islands of Alaska.

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        • Japan went to war with Russia and occupied Korea and Manchuria before FDR ever set foot in the White House. Japanese immigrants were also flooding into Hawaii in McKinley’s time. The concern that an aggressive Japan would take Hawaii and become a threat in the Pacific was justified. It was one of the reasons TR ended immigration from Japan during his presidency

          If McKinley had not taken Hawaii, Japan would have and it would have become a gigantic aircraft carrier in the middle of the Pacific for them, not us. Japan might have succeeded in conquering Australia and New Zealand like the Phillipines

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    • Imperialism is most definitely NOT the same thing S
      as globalism.

      Globalism seeks to decentralize, and in effect democratize, economic power and wealth. This does not benefit Americans nor does it benefit white people or southerners. Given the natural order of things, Europeans and their diaspora were conquerors and builders. There was never any guilt over wealth and global dominance. The beneficiaries of
      “Imperialism” were not second and third world
      countries. Not directly anyway. That’s the key difference. True imperialism benefit the empire. It isn’t a global welfare state such as globalism creates.

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      • They are merely flip sides of the same debased shekel. Under Imperialism, the colonized nations were effectively (if not literally) enslaved with a few comprador native elite (traitors) enriched. The average chump in the imperial homeland did not benefit from the racket. They got to go and die in places like Kashmir, or work in factories as kids. The usual suspects of course benefitted immensely, along with the white elites who opened the door to the whole debt-racketeering system. If you want to read about the ultimate result of imperialism, now that it has dropped the faux-patriotic imperialist skin to reveal its full Babylonian Globo-Pedo visage, read here.

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  6. From the other side of Atlantic it looks like disrupting globalist income sources.

    Importing tax free into US is not some kind of Orban supporting small family business issue. Tax free trade is basically payment to those who carry out globalist foreign policy.

    Trade agreements have been legal corruption all the time. Now cancelling those deals will hurt a lot of bad people so Trump action looks more and more like using financial weapon against his enemies. Similar to dissolving USAID.

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    • Agree. Hopefully that’s what he’s up to here. This is a very interesting list as it shows which places are hammering the US with tariffs the most. Vietnam – given free access to US markets by the treasonous criminal Juan ‘Forrest-fire’ McStain – has worst record of all.

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    • Those truly interested in what this is all about might want to attempt to read this excellent take on the subject. Hopefully, Trump and his economic folks understand that the US dollar as Global Reserve Currency (GRC) with endless trade-deficits is dangerous to national security. He’s wanting to end the deficits in order to bolster defense and retain the GRC status. Here’s an important point raised by the above-linked article:

      > Miran rightly notes that US national security is degraded in the current circumstances, by the erosion of manufacturing potential which leaves the US incapable of producing its defense imperatives. Miran’s thesis further provides for the tariffs being a tool not merely as some quick-and-cheap form of ‘revenue’, as some assume, but for the purpose of favorably rebalancing global currency valuations.

      >Tariffs as a Lever: Tariffs are a primary tool to address trade imbalances, not just for revenue but to force currency adjustments and protect domestic industries.

      > And the above does not mean Trump’s latest move intends to bring an end to the dollar reserve system. On the contrary, he intends to continue it in a more ‘fair’ manner. From the paper:

      > Despite the dollar’s role in weighing heavily on the U.S. manufacturing sector, President Trump has emphasized the value he places on its status as the global reserve currency, and threatened to punish countries that move away from the dollar. I expect this tension to be resolved by policies that aim to preserve the status of the dollar, but improve burden sharing with our trading partners.

      It might not be possible to reduce the deficits without ultimately undoing the GRC, which would not necessarily be a bad thing altogether.

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  7. The Germans called their worthless marks “judefetzen”(jewish confetti) during their Weimar-era hyperinflation.
    Americans will call our worthless money “Donny Dollars” during our upcoming hyperinflationry period.

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  8. Hunter Wallace,

    “6. Subordinating trade policy to foreign policy to maintain American leadership of the “rules-based international order” is what offshored manufacturing. European and Asian workers benefitted from that relationship. So did American consumers.”

    WELL SAID! That pretty much explains a huge reason we have been on this road of ruin and depression. It’s all about maintaining the rules based International Order. The forces of history are against it, thank God, Trump got us off this road. Is it time? We shall see.

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    • Subordinating trade policy to foreign policy to maintain the judeao-christian-masonic usury “judefetzen”(jewish confetti)“ world order and power structure … not really a goodreads.com/book/show/23629443-when-a-jew-rules-the-world

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  9. Business are not coming back to pay high wages to American workers. But if you cut WIC, medicaid and food stamps to zero
    and you set up big business free trade zones with no minimum wage and no labor standards, you will have a whole lot of hungry people willing to work for beans.

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  11. Nobody, and that includes the Democratic opposition leader Hakeem Jefferies is talking about were Trump gets the legal authority to do what he is doing. And Trump only mentioned emergency once in his speech and the nature of the emergency was not clearly conveyed to me. Trump is not a king, we are a nation of laws, BAHA, yeah but somebody should stand up for the law, no? Never trust a nigger to stand up for the law or for what is right. Especially not that half a retard Hakeem Jefferies.

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  13. The double standards of tariffs and trade as a feature of imperialist magnanimity has been one of the few things Trump has been politically consistent on both in terms of having it as a front and center concern and how he comes down on the issue, ever since he started making highly visible public political statements in 1987.

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  14. A little wonky way to try and regain leverage to get other countries to drop their tariffs. Free trade doesn’t have restrictions such as import duties, export bounties, domestic production subsidies, trade quotas, or import licenses. America’s current trade deals are a mix of free trade and protectionism, with America disproportionately supplying the free market, while others nations supply the protectionism. For example, China blocks American purchases of Chinese companies while we, in the spirit of the “free market”, allow Chinese companies, often state sponsored, to purchase vital and strategic American companies. A key ingredient in China’s grand strategy of expansion foreign direct investments should be an issue because “foreign ownership of an American corporation provide a presence for that parent company’s country in the US.” This then creates a vessel for leaking American technology, intellectual property, and sensitive information pertaining to critical infrastructure. This is an issue because US companies can’t compete with the resources of the second largest economy in the world. China also utilizes subsidies, tariffs and utilizes restrictions on foreign companies who want to set up businesses there. Another problem is that the Chinese military consistently hacks American companies located in China. They also bribe employees and constantly send malware links to the business leaders of the company. “The Justice Department says that the scale of China’s corporate espionage is so vast it constitutes a national security emergency, with China targeting virtually every sector of the U.S. economy, and costing American companies hundreds of billions of dollars in losses — and more than two million jobs.” (CBS) According to the FBI’s former deputy director for counterintelligence, China operates an estimated 3,200 military front companies in the USA dedicated to obtaining US trade secrets. This was also outlined in a 2010 report from the U.S. Defense Threat Reduction Agency. According to a report submitted to Congress by the US-China Economic and Security Review Commission in November 2012, “China depends on industrial espionage, forced technology transfers, piracy, and counterfeiting of foreign technology as part of a system of innovation mercantilism.” By obtaining the property illegally, China avoids the expenses and difficulties of basic research and unique product development. Two very costly and time consuming endeavors.

    You could argue that one of the primary causes of our manufacturing job losses is due to our trade deficits. According to the EPI, the USA lost around 5 million manufacturing jobs from 2000-2014. I’ll start with NAFTA. In 1993, the year before NAFTA, the US had a 1.66 billion dollar trade surplus with Mexico. By 1995, the year after NAFTA, we had a 15.8 billion dollar trade deficit. In 2014, our trade deficit with Mexico was 53.8 billion dollars and our car imports from Mexico have increased 5x since NAFTA was implemented. Also, NAFTA resulted in the USA losing hundreds of thousands of manufacturing jobs because NAFTA provided incentives for US manufacturers to move their operations to Mexico as they could ship their products, mostly tariff free, into the US. In addition, it forced Americans to take pay cuts as Mexican workers were earning around 1/5th of what Americans were earning.In regards to our trade imbalances, it makes the US vulnerable to foreign nations acquiring companies. In my opinion, “we should be a manufacturing powerhouse that supplies high quality goods instead of having America be dominated by foreign institutions who provide high interest loans and manipulate capital markets to take wealth away from normal Americans.” Currently, the USA trades ownership rights for imported goods based on credit. To finance, we sell U.S Treasury Securities to foreigners. We should also tax the interest of foreign bond holders.

    According to the MGI, from 2001-2003, the offshoring of manufacturing increased a company’s average current recovery of capital income by over 30% and decreased their average labor consumption by over 30%. So, while outsourcing manufacturing jobs results in shittier and cheaper products, it also results in job loss and lower incomes for American households. Moreover, the availability of low-wage manufacturing in other countries makes it harder for US manufacturers to compete and prosper if they chose to keep their operations within the confines of the United States. Furthermore, trade deals like NAFTA and CAFTA lead to a decrease in the number of US manufacturing suppliers, an increase in the number of individuals using welfare and Medicaid, and an increase to the federal budget. Finally, most of the new employment opportunities are usually in the lower-paying service sectors. On average, service sector jobs pay roughly 25% less than manufacturing jobs. Our commitments in regards to services were not mandatory as countries can choose what items it will open in borders to when it comes to services.

    For third world/“developing countries”, who have very small consumer economies, we give them special trade breaks that allow their shit goods, which are cheap to make, to enter the US tariff free. For more developed nations, we have imbalanced trade agreements that result in better access for their goods into the US than our goods in their countries. Costa Rica, the wealthiest CAFTA nation has a per-capita GDP that is around 1/4 the size of ours. Put simply, most of the CAFTA nations have very small consumer economies and have huge amounts of low wage labor. As such, are you really opening that area of the world for small and medium sized US companies.? Among all US manufacturers, roughly 90% (might have recently changed) of manufacturing exporters were small and medium sized businesses. Vietnam’s minimum wage translates to roughly 200 US dollars a month. Lot of buying power and a big market for most American companies.

    Recently, the long-term unemployed Americans (those jobless for 27 weeks or more) accounted for over 23% of the unemployed. Shouldn’t take that into account when discussing trade deals.?

    GDP also includes things like government spending, wars for Israel spending, and disaster relief spending. All these things improve your standard of living.?

    Paris Climate Deal: We were hindering our own economy with regulations and transferring wealth to foreigners for that benefit. Being that the Paris Agreement builds upon the 1992 UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, we should have withdrawn from the UNFCCC. This would have allowed the US to withdraw from all subsequent protocols and agreements, including the Paris Agreement. This is relevant because since the waiting period for the UNFCCC expired in 1997, only a one year notification is necessary. So, the US could have withdrawn from both the UNFCCC and the Paris Agreement after only one year instead of three.

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  15. “Anti-Semites” are to blame
    for the Jews’ bad reputation.
    https://archive.ph/C1wAF
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ronen_Steinke

    en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Category:German_terms_borrowed_from_Yiddish
    en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Category:German_terms_derived_from_Yiddish

    “They look white to me.” (“Mister” Taylor)
    “Huwhite” or Jewhite, is the question here.

    https://odysee.com/@redicetv:1/WW-Ep334-What-ReDacted-Left-Out-Of-The-Hitler-Escaping-To-Argentina-Story:c

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CwWKgdwb0MY

    Henrik, do the math again: has it really only been 70 years since 1945? The emaciated dead Hitler dummy from the Führerbunker is said to have been some unknown person of similar appearance.

    Btw, Frau Natali looks (at least 20 percent) Hewasian/Amerindian to me, despite her Italian maiden name. These kind of dark eyes are definitely not of European origin. (Filipina? Mexican? Cuban? Puerto Rican?) https://i.ibb.co/39cqY75B/toodark.jpg

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    • Trump 1.0 said that he would defund sanctuary cities and states and never followed through.

      Trump 2.0 will definitely defund public-school districts that do not follow the jewish victimhood narrative though. You can bet your bottom fiat dollar on that.

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  17. This idiocy of giving away our key industries began with Eisenhower, giving away our watch and precision instruments industries, then Nixon our electronics. We lost a lot in the allied industry that supports manufacturing, design and research.

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  18. Match each countries tariffs with tariffs for their goods, and keep unions under control to avoid excessive production costs. That should ensure factories stay onshore.
    When you complain about more expensive items from China, remember their government made US goods more expensive for the Chinese, via 67% tariffs.

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  19. ‘Jensen Huang, Nvidia’s chief executive, said that tariffs would likely have a short-term affect on the business and added that the company is looking to set up production in the United States.’ Nyt

    Having the very effect that was intended, returning industries to the US.

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