The country is 100% behind the president on fixing a global system of tariffs that has disadvantaged the country. But, business is a confidence game and confidence depends on trust.
President @realDonaldTrump has elevated the tariff issue to the most important geopolitical issue in the world, and he has gotten everyone’s attention. So far, so good.
And yes, other nations have taken advantage of the U.S. by protecting their home industries at the expense of millions of our jobs and economic growth in our country.
But, by placing massive and disproportionate tariffs on our friends and our enemies alike and thereby launching a global economic war against the whole world at once, we are in the process of destroying confidence in our country as a trading partner, as a place to do business, and as a market to invest capital.
The president has an opportunity to call a 90-day time out, negotiate and resolve unfair asymmetric tariff deals, and induce trillions of dollars of new investment in our country.
If, on the other hand, on April 9th we launch economic nuclear war on every country in the world, business investment will grind to a halt, consumers will close their wallets and pocket books, and we will severely damage our reputation with the rest of the world that will take years and potentially decades to rehabilitate.
What CEO and what board of directors will be comfortable making large,
long-term, economic commitments in our country in the middle of an economic nuclear war?
I don’t know of one who will do so.
When markets crash, new investment stops, consumers stop spending money, and businesses have no choice but to curtail investment and fire workers.
And it is not just the big companies that will suffer. Small and medium size businesses and entrepreneurs will experience much greater pain. Almost no business can pass through an overnight massive increase in costs to their customers. And that’s true even if they have no debt, and, unfortunately, there is a massive amount of leverage in the system.
Business is a confidence game. The president is losing the confidence of business leaders around the globe. The consequences for our country and the millions of our citizens who have supported the president — in particular low-income consumers who are already under a huge amount of economic stress — are going to be severely negative. This is not what we voted for.
The President has an opportunity on Monday to call a time out and have the time to execute on fixing an unfair tariff system.
Alternatively, we are heading for a self-induced, economic nuclear winter, and we should start hunkering down.
May cooler heads prevail.
@jaredturner@DOGE This is right here. Until you go after the Pentagon for significant cuts, @DOGE means nothing. It's like stopping carbon admissions when a country like India exists.
.@joerogan: When did the U.S. government get started with internet censorship?
@mikebenzcyber: "It started in 2014 with the Ukraine coup and the counter-coup. In 2014, we had about 25 years of successful free-speech diplomacy, and then we successfully overthrew the government of Ukraine. Our Assistant Secretary of State, Victoria Nuland, handed out cookies and water bottles to violent street protestors as they surrounded the parliament building and ran the democratically elected government out of office.
But then the eastern side of Ukraine completely broke away, and they didn't respect this new U.S.-installed government. Crimea voted in a referendum to join the Russian Federation, which set in motion events that would end the concept of free speech diplomacy... NATO formally declared that it was no longer just about tanks, but it was about controlling tweets, and then Brexit happened in June 2016.
The very next month, NATO added hybrid warfare to its formal charter, basically authorizing the military, diplomatic sphere, and intelligence world to take control of social media. Then, five months later, Trump won the election while being called a Russian asset, so all that infrastructure was redirected home to the U.S."
@joerogan: "Jesus!" 🤯🤯🤯