Biden’s tariffs are a misguided move to try to rebuild America’s shattered industrial base. From Patrick Lawrence at unz.com:
I love the photograph The New York Times ran atop Jim Tankersley’s May 18 story analyzing the inadvisable raft of tariffs on Chinese imports President Biden authorized four days earlier. There is the old coot signing the paperwork at a desk in the Rose Garden as a crowd of seven looks on admiringly. Polo shirts, sneakers, a baseball cap. Six of these seven are people of color; four are women.
Perfect, just perfect. Study the picture. These dutiful onlookers are not officeholders or administration officials. They are union leaders from what were once powerful labor organizations: steelworkers, autoworkers, machinists, communications workers, the AFL–CIO. These seven represent, in short, the very people who will get hit hardest as the executive order Biden just sent to Katherine Tai, his special trade representative, takes effect.
That’s Joe, isn’t it? The Man from Scranton has made his career gathering about him for the photo ops those toward whom he is indifferent and, often enough, those he is about to screw without a second thought (or even a first in Joe’s case).
Remember that famous occasion five years ago next month, when Biden finished addressing the Poor People’s Campaign in Washington about his plans to end poverty and then went to wealthy investors at the Carlyle Hotel in Manhattan to say that, if elected, “Nothing would fundamentally change”? If he has by and large kept his word these past three years, something did change, something big, when, 10 days ago, he ordered a very wide range of import taxes on Chinese-made imports.
Will the U.S. make itself a manufacturing economy once again, bringing lost industrial production back from the dead? This is the stated aim of the new tariff regime, but no, what is done is done, in my view. Will America, in consequence of higher costs that are now inevitable, be a more expensive place to live for those to whom costs matter most? Yes, this will change, over time probably by a lot.
Didn’t the CPUSA/CCP get rid of Trump for the same?
Joe “Slovo” Biden probably couldn’t put 2 and 2 together to equal five for the UNI Party but he will deliver the “prize” to the globalists by any means necessary.
A post in Chinese social media WeChat yesterday. Below is the excerpt:
Trump Found Guilty, Don’t Bother to Try to Go to the US
This is not clickbait; I sincerely advise those still contemplating about illegally going to the US through the southern border to consider the following: if Biden is re-elected, he will continue to make America just like the country you are trying to escape from; if Trump wins, he will deport the illegals. Going to the US today is like walking into a trap!
(h/t-Moshang & XVF)