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Wednesday, April 16th, 2025
China Tariffs Are a National Security Necessity
By Rob Maness Rob Maness is a retired Air Force Colonel, a former wing and squadron commander, veteran of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars, a survivor of the 9/11 Pentagon Attack, Graduate of the U.S. Navy War College and Harvard Kennedy School, a former U.S. Senate Candidate, Chairman of GatorPAC, CEO and Owner of Iron Liberty Group LLC, and Host of the Rob Maness Show on WorldViewTube
April 16, 2025
There are plenty of economic justifications for placing tariffs on China. But bringing American manufacturing home and rebalancing global trade isn’t just about dollars and cents; it’s about keeping our country safe, our troops ready, and our enemies in check.
As a retired Air Force colonel who’s seen the world’s dangers up close, I’m telling you: we can’t keep outsourcing our strength to a rival power like China. Here’s the unfiltered truth on why tariffs matter for our national security.
China has got us by the throat when it comes to manufacturing military equipment. They’re pumping out everything from the rare earth minerals in our missiles to the chips in our drones, and we’re just handing them the keys to our arsenal.
In 2024, the United States imported $438 billion in goods from China, and they produce around 90 percent of the world’s rare earths. You think that’s an accident? Hell no. That’s a chokehold, and in a fight – whether it’s a Cold War-style standoff or a hot war in the South China Sea – they can squeeze tight. Imagine trying to keep our F-35s in the air or our Navy’s destroyers running without those materials. We’d be grounded faster than a C-130 in a sandstorm.
That’s not even to mention semiconductors. Those little chips are the lifeblood of modern warfare – critical for guidance systems, comms, you name it. China has a big slice of that pie, and we saw in 2021 how a chip shortage nearly ground this country to a halt. Ford couldn’t even get enough F-150s out the door. Now imagine how quickly every fighter jet, tank, or missile system could be rendered useless.
In a conflict, China could instantly turn off the tap of dozens of materials critical to our military readiness. Our drones go dark, our missiles miss, and our boys and girls in uniform are left swinging in the wind. That’s not just a supply chain hiccup; that’s a national security disaster.
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Wednesday, April 9th, 2025
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Wednesday, April 9th, 2025
This new book by Senator Tom Cotton, ‘The Seven Things You Can’t Say About China’ is a chilling wake up call to the danger China presents to the world. It gives the historical ascent of China from the time of Mao to the power house they are today. While we enthusiastically buy the “cheaper China products” we need to remember the Chinese Communist Party is using our money to build their military in order to defeat us ! Nancy
Seven Things You Can’t Say About China Hardcover –
February 18, 2025 Author – Senator Tom Cotton
#1 New York Times Bestseller
Senator Tom Cotton offers an unflinching look at the deadly threat of Communist China and reveals the truth about America’s most dangerous enemy. “
“As a member of the Senate Intelligence Committee, I’m often asked if the threat from China is as bad as it seems. My answer is no—it’s worse than you can imagine.”
Seven Things You Can’t Say About China is Tom Cotton’s provocative exposé about the gravest threat to American freedom. The media, Hollywood, academia, Wall Street, and most politicians can’t—or won’t—speak the truth about China. But Senator Cotton will, because America needs to know.
In this hard-hitting book, he reveals what others refuse to say, including:
- The inside story—drawn from his intelligence and national-security experience and knowledge—on how deeply the Chinese Communist Party has infiltrated America.
- How China persecutes Christians and commits genocide against religious and ethnic minorities.
- The alarming rise of China’s armed forces and nuclear arsenal, which will soon rival our own.
- The danger our children face from China’s influence on Hollywood, the NBA, TikTok, and so much more.
- How China lied, stole, and cheated its way to wealth while devastating America’s workers and businesses.
Seven Things You Can’t Say About China sounds the alarm about Communist China’s carefully crafted plans to defeat America in the coming decade—and what we must do to fight back.
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Saturday, April 5th, 2025
The Reckoning Begins: Trump’s Tariffs and the Return of Power
They called it a trade war. Trump called it leverage. Now the clueless class is about to learn what economic warfare really looks like.
By Sara Carter Staff April 5, 2025
We were cruising at 32,000 feet when the conversation caught my ear. Two men in their 60s, wearing golf shirts and sneakers—no laptops, no earbuds—just confidently exchanging opinions somewhere over Georgia, halfway through their Bloody Marys.
“I don’t get it,” one said. “Trump’s going to slap tariffs on everything again? That’s just going to drive up prices.”
The other nodded, with the certainty of someone who’d never been challenged. “It’s the same thing all over—tax the American consumer and pretend it’s tough on China.”
They didn’t whisper. They weren’t unsure. They were loud, certain, and completely wrong.
I didn’t say a word. But I wanted to. Not because I crave debate—but because I’m tired of watching this country get gaslit by a class of people who stopped thinking critically the minute CNN started thinking for them.
This is where The Reckoning begins.
Not in the headlines. Not in Washington. But at 32,000 feet, in a casual conversation that revealed just how badly the American people have been lied to.
Because tariffs aren’t taxes.
They’re tools.
They’re leverage.
They’re how you say no to a global system built to exploit us—and yes, to the American worker we nearly lost.
Tariffs: The Tool the Left Pretends Not to Understand
Here’s the truth no one at the cocktail parties wants to say out loud: tariffs are not taxes on Americans. That’s a lie told by people who either don’t understand economics—or don’t care who’s getting steamrolled, as long as their stock portfolio stays padded.
A tariff is a penalty. It’s a strategic toll on products that come into this country under unfair terms. It’s how we say, “You want access to our markets? Then play fair. Otherwise, pay up.”
Think of it like this: If someone’s dumping cheap steel into your town and undercutting every local business, what do you do? You don’t say “Let the free market sort it out” while your factories shut down and your neighbors lose their jobs. You block the dump truck. You protect your own. You draw a line.
That’s what President Trump is doing. And it’s working.
They Called It a Trade War—But It Was a Wake-Up Call
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Thursday, April 3rd, 2025
Jesse Watters: Media Says America Cannot Afford Tariffs – We Cannot Afford Not To Have Tariffs
DONALD TRUMP: “My fellow Americans, this is Liberation Day. We’ve been waiting for a long time. April 2, 2025 will forever be remembered as the day American industry was reborn, the day America’s destiny was reclaimed, and the day that we began to make America wealthy again.”
JESSE WATTERS: Today, Donald Trump fundamentally changed the country as we know it. This is the biggest shift in economic policy since World War II when we liberated Europe and Asia. 47 says we are now liberating ourselves from globalization.
DONALD TRUMP: “Our country has been looted, pillaged, raped, and plundered by nations near and far, both friend and foe alike. American steelworkers, autoworkers, farmers, and skilled craftsmen—we have a lot of them here with us today—they are really suffering gravely. They watched in anguish as foreign leaders have stolen our jobs, foreign cheaters have ransacked our factories, and foreign scavengers have torn apart our once beautiful American dream. This is one of the most important days, in my opinion, in American history. It’s our declaration of economic independence.”
JESSE WATTERS: After we saved Europe from Hitler and Asia from the emperor, we created a free-trade system to help the Allies’ economies recover, and they would help us contain communism. Life was great for American families—wives did not have to work if they didn’t want to, you could own a nice home and have a big family and afford college on a decent salary, and your kids could have a better life than you. The United States finally won the Cold War, gave birth to globalization, and then other countries—even our allies—took advantage of us, took advantage of a system we designed to save and protect them.
China, a country we basically created, became an absolute menace, and American multinationals conspired to shift jobs and factories overseas and decimated the middle class. If you are one of those workers the last 40 years, free trade basically destroyed your life. Look at this chart—the top 50% of income earners, especially the top 10 percent, accumulated a massive amount of wealth, but the other half of the country, the bottom 50% of earners, have been suffocating at the bottom. The American dream has been dying, and politicians said there is nothing they can do about it.
BARACK OBAMA: “Some of those jobs of the past are just not going to come back. That he’s going to bring all of these jobs back—how exactly are you going to do that? What are you going to do? There’s no answer to it. He just says I’m going to negotiate a better deal—how? How exactly are you going to negotiate that? What magic wand do you have? And usually, the answer is he doesn’t have an answer. But they are going to have to retrain for the jobs of the future, not the jobs of the past.”
JESSE WATTERS: Mr. Hope and Change is like, “Sorry, I’m one of the most powerful men in the world, but there’s nothing I can do.” Washington has done nothing for 40 years except open the borders, let industry leave, and spend, spend, spend. Could it be that there was a magic wand this whole time? Obama just didn’t know how to use it?
DONALD TRUMP: “So he said, ‘What can we do?’ So easy—I drop a 25% tax on China, and, you know, I said to somebody that it’s really the messenger—the messenger is important. I could have one man say, ‘We are going to tax you 25%,’ and I could say another, ‘Listen, you [bleep], I’m going to tax you 25%.’”
JESSE WATTERS: Trump has been talking about winning trade wars since the ‘90s. He raised tariffs in his first term, and we had the highest wage growth in 50 years—a manufacturing renaissance, a hot stock market, oh, and no inflation. This term, he’s going even bigger.
DONALD TRUMP: “China, 67 percent—that’s tariffs charged to the USA, including currency manipulation and trade barriers… We are going to be charging a discounted reciprocal tariff of 34%. We charge them less—so how can anybody be upset? They will be because we’ve never charged anybody anything, but now we are going to charge… European Union—they are very tough traders—39 percent, we are going to charge them 20%. I don’t blame the people for doing it—I think they are very smart. I blame the people that sat right in that Oval Office.”
JESSE WATTERS: Americans have been demanding fair trade for years—so if other countries tax our products, we are going to tax theirs. But Trump is giving everybody a little bit of a discount—10% tariff across the board and then just a cut under what they charge us. That’s a negotiation tactic—get other countries to drop their tariffs to where we have them, and then it’s equal. That’s called trade. But we are going to fight harder against foreign cars—Trump announcing a 25% tariff on all autos from other countries, and the workers love it.AUTO WORKER: “I’ve watched plant after plant after plant in Detroit and in the metro Detroit area close. There are now plants sitting idle, there are now plants that are underutilized, and Donald Trump’s policies are going to bring product back into those underutilized plants. There’s going to be new investments, there’s going to be new plants built, and the UAW members—about 20 of them with me—they are sitting right over here. We support Donald Trump’s policies on tariffs 100%.”
JESSE WATTERS: If you care about the forgotten men and women of this country, about restoring the American dream, Trump says you have to be all in on the trade war. But since he’s the general of the war, Democrats who claim they represent workers are against it.
CHUCK SCHUMER: “Donald Trump is preparing to take a sledgehammer to the American economy by preparing a tsunami of tariffs on all sorts of goods Americans purchase every day. A tsunami of tariffs—let’s be clear, Donald Trump’s tariffs are a tax hike on American families.”
JESSE WATTERS: Wall Street money put Schumer in the Senate, so he’s just a puppet. They drove up prices to forty-year highs, he’s been raising taxes for decades. The man who was complacent in hijacking 100,000 American factories and losing 5 million jobs overseas can shut up, with all due respect. He destroyed American industry—that’s why we call it the Rust Belt, it’s why Trump was elected twice—to stop Schumer’s gang from carving the country up.
The media says Americans cannot afford tariffs—we cannot afford not to have tariffs. We created a monster in China—they dump cheap products here, they steal our secrets, they poison us with drugs, and they killed 1 million Americans with a virus. Trade policy should align with foreign policy. The pandemic proved this country isn’t even self-sufficient—we have to start making our medicine here, and if we want to build ships and icebreakers, they have to be built with American steel, not cheap subsidized steel dumped here from China.
If we are going to win the AI arms race, we can’t rely on Taiwan for semiconductors—we have to make the chips here. If we don’t protect our economy, we can’t protect our national security, and we can’t protect American lives.
DONALD TRUMP: “The United States can no longer produce enough antibiotics to treat our sick. We import virtually all of our computers, phones, televisions, and electronics—we used to dominate the field, and now we import it all from different countries. A single shipyard in China produces more ships—chips—every year than all of the American shipyards combined. Think of that—it was a business we used to dominate, we used to dominate it totally. Chronic trade deficits are no longer merely an economic problem—they are a national emergency.”
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Friday, March 14th, 2025
Trump Administration Celebrates a Whopping 50 Wins in 50 Days!
March 10, 2025 By Paula Bolyard
It’s been an epic 50 days, with President Trump and his administration notching win after win after win. And the president shows no signs of stopping. The White House sent out a press release on Monday celebrating the things Trump has accomplished for the American people, including securing the border, bringing back American hostages, reinstating with back pay soldiers who had been discharged for refusing the COVID-19 vaccine, and making it the policy of the United States that there are only two genders. He’s even giving us our plastic straws back!
Here is the complete list. I’m sure it will brighten your Monday!
1. President Trump secured the border in unprecedented fashion.
- Illegal border crossings have declined to the lowest level ever recorded — down 94% from last February and down 96% from the all-time high of the Biden Administration. In one sector, illegal border crossings are down 99% over 2023.
- Fox News correspondent Bill Melugin: “If Fox were to send me down there right now, I would have trouble finding a single migrant on camera.”
- CBS immigration reporter Camilo Montoya-Galvez: “Typically, when we go to the U.S./Mexico border, we at least see one group of people who are trying to cross into the U.S. illegally. We did not see a single migrant.”
2. President Trump signed the Laken Riley Act into law.
- The law requires illegal immigrants arrested or charged with theft or violence to be detained — honoring the memory of Laken Riley, a Georgia college student brutally murdered by an illegal immigrant released into the country.
3. President Trump is deporting illegal immigrant killers, rapists, and drug dealers en masse.
- The list of illegal immigrant criminals arrested and set for deportation include convicted killers, child molesters, child pornographers, gang members, terrorists, and drug traffickers.
4. President Trump’s tariffs are leveling the playing field for American workers.
- President Trump restored a 25% tariff on steel imports and elevated the tariff to 25% on aluminum imports to protect these critical American industries from unfair foreign competition – a move praised by the Steel Manufacturers Association, the Aluminum Association, and businesses across the country.
- President Trump unveiled a plan for fair and reciprocal trade, making clear to the world that the United States will no longer tolerate being ripped off.
5. President Trump is taking on the fentanyl crisis.
- President Trump implemented an additional 10% tariff on imports from China in order to stem the flow of illegal aliens and fentanyl.
- President Trump forced Mexico and Canada to address the fentanyl being trafficked into our country.
6. President Trump has secured billions of dollars in new U.S.-based investments.
- Apple announced a historic $500 billion investment that will create 20,000 new U.S.-based jobs.
- TSMC announced an unprecedented $100 billion investment in U.S.-based semiconductor chip manufacturing.
- President Trump announced the largest artificial intelligence infrastructure project in history, securing $500 billion in planned private sector investment — with major CEOs agreeing it would not have been possible without President Trump’s leadership.
- President Trump secured a $20 billion investment by DAMAC Properties to build new U.S.-based data centers.
- CMA CGM announced a $20 billion investment in U.S. shipbuilding and logistics, which will create 10,000 new jobs.
- Eli Lilly and Company announced a $27 billion investment in its U.S.-based manufacturing.
- The Trump Administration announced an $18 billion investment by American liquefied natural gas (LNG) exporter Venture Global into their Plaquemines LNG export facility — made possible by President Trump’s energy policies.
- Wisconsin-based Clarios, a leader in low-voltage energy storage, announced a $6 billion plan to expand its U.S.-based manufacturing.
- Saudi Arabia declared its intention to invest $600 billion in the United States over the next four years.
- Taiwan pledged to boost its investment in the United States.
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Saturday, October 26th, 2024
VIDEO – JOE ROGAN INTERVIEWING DONALD TRUMP Oct 25, 2024
Donald Trump is currently the 2024 Presidential Candidate of the Republican Party. He previously served as America’s 45th president, and is also a businessman and media personality.
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Joe Rogan Experience #2219 – Donald Trump
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Thursday, September 5th, 2024
Trump gave a fantastic detailed economic speech today. Please share with your contacts. Nancy
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Former President Donald Trump is speaking at the Economic Club of New York. September 5, 2024
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Tuesday, June 18th, 2024
Thanks to Cathy Wright for sharing this incredible video, positively frightening ! – Elections Do Have Consequences Nancy P.S. Be sure to pay attention to the educational background that Biden’s economic advisor has.
VIDEO BIDEN’S HEAD ECONOMIC ADVISOR !!!!
Dave Rubin of “The Rubin Report” shares a DM clip of a clip from the documentary “Finding the Money” featuring Biden’s economic advisor Jared Bernstein being unable to explain the basics of government debt.
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Tuesday, June 18th, 2024
Saudi Arabia Chooses Chinese Yuan Over US Dollar: Global Markets React
June 16, 2024
The 50-year Petrodollar era between Saudi Arabia and the United States has ended. The emergence of the Chinese yuan as a challenger to the dollar’s dominance raises interest.
Reports from foreign media and industry sources on the 14th reveal that the Petrodollar agreement between Saudi Arabia and the United States expired on the 9th. This is due to Saudi Arabia’s decision not to renew the agreement.
In 1974, the two countries entered a Petrodollar agreement, using only dollars for oil payments, while the United States assumed responsibility for Saudi Arabia’s security.
Oil-producing countries in the Middle East, which supply oil globally, established the so-called Petrodollar recycling mechanism by reinvesting dollars in U.S. Treasury bonds and financial markets. This process further solidified the Petrodollar system, reinforcing the status of the U.S. dollar as a reserve currency and securing the power to control the global oil market.
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