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| So it's Valentine's Day, 2025, and I was at my parents' house with my middle daughter for her birthday. | |
| She's born on Valentine's. | |
| I was about to get in the car, but I was checking some of the feeds on X, and I saw a Patrick Bet David video that I'll post under this. | |
| He's a really smart businessman, really smart guy. | |
| And he was saying, look at how until the 20s, 98% of the U.S. government funding was from tariffs. | |
| Why do we stop that? | |
| This makes no sense. | |
| Why is it taxpayers paying it? | |
| Why do all these other countries mainly fund themselves off tariffs? | |
| Why do we stop? | |
| He says, I don't know, but what Trump's doing is a really smart idea because it's all one-sided. | |
| These other countries have huge tariffs on us, but we don't own them. | |
| Why is it happening? | |
| Well, this has been known for 89 years why it happened, and Trump talked about it in his first administration. | |
| So let me tell everybody here. | |
| Because, you know, Patrick's a great business guy. | |
| I'm big on history, and I want everybody to rediscover this. | |
| It's not some big secret unless you don't know it. | |
| It's the middlemen Trump talked about. | |
| After World War II particularly, the U.S. was the global empire now, and all these politicians said, hey, we're going to make deals with these countries where if they set us up as the managers, as the importers, or even the owners of the factories, and then we get a big chunk of that, we won't charge them 30% if they charge us, or 40% in some cases, usually about 10%. | |
| If we get about half that tariff in the business deal, we'll just cut the tariff out. | |
| So that's what's been going on this whole time. | |
| And then these middlemen, only a few select corporations that set up Communist China, made the deal, you know, with all that, they get all the power and control to leverage out all their competition. | |
| And then you get the Black Rocks and all the centralization. | |
| So this is vertical integration we're talking about. | |
| And I'm glad people are rediscovering this. | |
| And I don't say it mean like, oh, Patrick Ben-David doesn't know why. | |
| I don't know all the business stuff he knows about the technicals. | |
| He's a really smart guy. | |
| It's just that this isn't talking school. | |
| It's not really debated, and people are finally starting to realize this and get it, and it's a big, big deal. | |
| So yeah, what Trump's doing is returning us to the classic American system, and they launched the Great Depression to stop Herbert Hoover from doing this in 929, so we got some big hurdles, but we're facing total collapse if we don't, so Trump is doing what he has to do, and it's the only right move that's left. | |
| God bless you all. |
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