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April 4, 2025 - Health Ranger - Mike Adams
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Trump's tariffs are designed to stop other nations from STRANGLING the U.S. economy
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Welcome to the Health Ranger Report with Mike Adams, the Health Ranger.
There's an interesting angle on this story about Trump's tariffs that I find really curious.
It's that no left-wing media, no corporate media in America, ever reports the tariffs that the other countries place on U.S.
manufacturers. They're acting like Trump is just, like he's the only one erecting tariffs, as if these other countries are all into free trade.
You know, mean old Trump.
Here he is.
He's erecting tariffs for no reason, like out of the blue, spontaneous tariffs, just punishing everybody else and disrupting the world and for no reason.
And of course that's nonsense.
Trump is actually responding to the tariffs that the other countries have placed on U.S. goods.
You know, all these countries, China has massive tariffs on U.S. goods, really on average, about 67% tariffs on U.S. goods.
EU countries, massive tariffs.
You know, Korea, Vietnam, all the Asian countries, massive tariffs.
These tariffs are punishing U.S. manufacturers and U.S. exporters.
And for all these decades that these have been in place, and of course they've changed over time, but the United States has just stood back and has just been the international whipping boy.
It's like, yeah, just abuse us, charge us, whatever.
And we'll do nothing about it.
Well, that's the way it was under Joe Biden, for sure, and Obama.
But Trump is saying enough is enough.
We're not going to be abused anymore in unfair international trade.
And I agree with Trump's decision on the tariffs.
If a country out there is charging America 60% tariffs, well, Trump is putting 30% tariffs on them.
He's not even matching the 60%.
He's just doing half of it, which is a discount, actually.
It's favorable to those countries.
Like, Trump is being nice.
If he were being mean, he would double their tariffs.
You know, if they charged 60%, he'd put 120%.
Like, that would be mean Trump.
But no, he's doing half that.
He's nice Trump.
But he's also, he's not gullible Trump.
He's saying, you're not going to be able to just stomp all over America anymore.
You want to do trade with America?
You either reduce your tariffs on American goods to zero, or we're gonna half-match your tariffs.
That seems totally reasonable to me.
I don't know why anybody has a problem with this, if you're an American.
There should be no problem with this.
This is a pro-America decision, and yet I've seen economists I mean, even Senator Rand Paul, he's wrong on this.
He's, oh, tariffs are taxes.
All taxes are bad.
Not exactly.
Tariffs are not taxes.
Tariffs are not taxes.
Tariffs are tariffs.
It's a different category.
Taxes are typically placed on income or purchases.
You know, income taxes are placed on income.
Sales taxes are placed on purchases at retail.
Tariffs Are fees placed on imported goods that nobody in the U.S. has purchased yet?
So no, they're not taxes.
They're punishment.
They're pain for the exporters from other nations.
That's what they are.
They are a form of inflicted pain.
Economic pain.
Which has a purpose.
It's a strategic purpose.
It's like, if somebody's trying to strangle you, let's say.
I mean, we get into some self-defense training here.
Somebody's trying to strangle you.
And you can, if you have the presence of mind, you can reach up and you can dig your thumb into this pain point between their thumb and their first finger and then peel their hand off while inflicting a tremendous amount of pain.
And by doing so, you can also turn their wrist upside down and start twisting it to the point where you either break the wrist or the person complies and normally they will go down to their knees.
Okay? So what is that maneuver?
That's inflicting pain to get them to stop strangling you.
That's exactly what Trump's tariffs are.
Trump is inflicting pain to get these other countries to stop strangling the U.S. economy.
Because that's what they're doing.
They have a stranglehold on U.S. manufacturers and U.S. exporters.
And do you want to just sit there and be strangled all day long?
No. We deserve the right to be able to breathe.
There should be fair trade internationally, which means that if a country wants no tariffs on their goods, well, they have to have no tariffs on our goods.
It's got to be reciprocal.
That's all that Trump is saying, that we're going to reciprocate.
You put stupid tariffs on us, we're going to put half-stupid tariffs on you.
I mean, that's the deal.
Makes perfect sense.
So, Senator Rand Paul is wrong in this case.
Now, he's right on about 99.9% of everything, and he is, in my book, he's a great hero, and so is his father, of course, Ron Paul.
But he's wrong on this one.
I don't know why.
I mean, maybe economics is not his focus.
He's a doctor.
I don't know.
He's wrong on this point.
And he actually voted to halt Trump's tariffs on Canada.
Well, we need to inflict Some reciprocal pain on Canada in order to bring the tariffs down to zero both ways.
That's how you do it.
Now, the market reacted by getting clobbered.
You know, all these stocks are selling off for all these large companies, which I think is hilarious because if anybody invests in the stock market at this point is just playing a Ponzi scheme.
I don't own any stocks whatsoever.
I mean, I'm stacking gold and silver and some crypto, you know.
I mean, I use a vaulting service that I trust, you know, metalswithmike.com, if you want to know who it is.
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So, I'm stacking gold and silver.
I don't own any stocks, okay?
Because I know we're in a massive stock market bubble.
The valuations aren't justified.
You know, it's total nonsense, right?
So the stock market starts to crater because of the tariffs.
Why? Well, because people are going to buy less stuff because everything's going to go up in price for some period of time.
And that's true.
That is absolutely true.
There's going to be some economic pain in the short term.
But this is necessary to stop us from being strangled.
You know, you're going to have to engage the attacker, right?
You're going to have to kick them in the balls.
You're going to have to, like, twist their wrist.
You're going to have to gouge them in the eyes or something.
Like, you're going to have to inflict some pain to get them to lay off.
The question is, how long is this?
Well, these tariffs, how long will they last?
And as I said previously, my prediction is that for most countries, they're going to fold very quickly.
They're going to say, you know, we better drop our tariffs or we're toast.
Because, you know, the U.S.
is the largest consumption hub in the world per capita.
American people buy more stuff than anybody else, basically, which is obvious at any yard sale.
It's like, where'd you get all this stuff?
You know, like Walmart.
Okay. Hey.
So, most countries are going to surrender within days or maybe a couple of weeks.
China is a different animal altogether.
My prediction is China will first attempt retaliatory policies.
So, you're going to see China do all kinds of things with treasuries and with rare earth minerals.
Also, China just began running simulated attacks on Taiwan, sending a message saying, hey, stop messing with China.
Although I think that message had more to do with Trump threatening Iran.
Frankly, I think China is sending a message to Trump that says, if you bomb Iran, we will invade Taiwan.
That's the message.
And there's nothing the U.S. can do to stop that because All the assets of the U.S. Navy and the Air Force are over in Diego Garcia or the Indian Ocean or the Arabian Ocean or the Mediterranean.
I mean, they're far from China.
In other words, they're on the opposite side of the world.
Mostly. So China's sending a message, and I'm not sure that Trump is getting that message.
I'm not sure that he's listening very much.
But nevertheless, China has high tariffs on U.S. goods.
And so Trump has no choice but to put large tariffs on Chinese goods.
Well, there's a lot of stuff made in China that we import, you know, telecommunications equipment, clothing, toys, shoes, you know, freaking everything, car parts, you name it.
All that stuff's going to go up 50% or more starting right now.
And I'm even thinking like on my ranch, you know, I have tractors and equipment and a lot of that stuff.
The filter elements and so on, yeah, that's all made in China too, you know?
So I guess I'll be paying through the nose for that.
Good thing I stocked up in advance and bought extra parts, which is what I always do, so I don't really need to buy anything for a while.
By the time I do need to buy something, probably this trade war will be over, I'm hoping.
But China's gonna inflict some reciprocal pain, let's say.
China's gonna fight back.
And like re-strangle the United States.
And this is going to come down to some very clever maneuvering by Trump, because everything's at play here.
Military, food, energy, minerals, currencies, you name it.
I mean, China just dropped its own currency.
Manipulated it, of course, into being a cheaper currency internationally.
In order to help Chinese manufacturers export more effectively, more competitively around the world.
So that's a currency manipulation by China.
Well, the U.S.
is fully aware that China is engaged in currency manipulation.
But that's just one of the tools that China can use in order to essentially rip off the West or rip off the rest of the world and to sell their cheap at really, really low prices in dollars or in euros or in yen or British pounds or whatever.
So, yeah, China's playing games.
They're a big country.
They're smart.
They have a lot of resources.
They can afford to play games.
But in the end, the U.S.
is, I believe, China's largest export market in terms of any one country.
Now, surely they export a lot to the EU, but in terms of one country, the U.S. is the largest buyer of Chinese-made goods.
So sooner or later, China is going to have to deal as their own domestic manufacturers feel the pain and really complain to the party leaders there in Beijing.
You know, at some point, the economic pain becomes a political problem domestically, and that's where this is headed.
And as long as Trump sticks to his guns on this and is committed to making it through the pain, because there's going to be a lot of U.S. businesses that complain, there's going to be, you know, all kinds of inflations, going to be consumers complaining, going to be, you know, pundits complaining, right?
As long as Trump sticks to his guns on this and sees this through, he can win this.
He can win the game of economic chicken with China.
Which would be called Kung Pao Chinese Chicken.
The pao being the punch, or Trump Pao Chinese Chicken, yeah?
So that's what Trump is doing.
Your favorite lunch special.
Trump Pao Chinese Chicken!
With extra hot sauce, you know?
So that's what Trump is doing, and we're gonna see if it works or not.
In the meantime, Get ready to pay through the nose!
Everything's gonna get really expensive out of China, so...
So you will probably buy less stuff made in China.
Is my guess.
I know I will!
I mean, I did actually hurry up and buy some stuff before this went into effect.
So, you know, stuff made in China that isn't made anywhere else.
But maybe this will open up some options where more stuff is made in America.
You know?
That's the whole point!
We want to make more stuff in America, have more industry, more jobs, etc.
in America, and Trump is trying to make American manufacturing more competitive.
So get ready.
The question is, who's going to eat the lunch of Trump-pow Chinese chicken?
We're going to find out.
Thanks for listening.
Mike Adams here.
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