I HAVE UPDATED/EXPANDED the opening of my prior released....
https://open.substack.com/pub/jlenarddetroit/p/understanding-tariff-wars
.... piece!
As stated in the embedded Video down-thread that this piece is based upon - What's good for the Goose, good for the Gander --- IF they Tariff us, why shouldn't we engage in RECIPROCAL Tariffs. EQUAL Trade, FAIR Trade, not USA are Suckers Trade.
And beside and beyond that, you use the TOOLS you have! Hey Lefties, WOULD YOU PREFER ARMED CONFLICT? to try resolve our AMERICA HAS BEEN SUCKERS on short end of Trade Policy for decades!!!
WHERE I PART WAYS WITH TRUMP is that slapping the highest level Tariff to “supposedly” due tit-for-tat EQUAL reciprocal balance I think is OVER-BOARD. If indeed you want the THREAT OF TARIFFS TIME TO WORK, as these things cannot happen overnight (like much more Manufacturing move back within US borders, it will take YEARS for that to happen), so the threat of ESCALATING TARIFFS is enough IMO and should start with 5%, then go to 10% in 6mo’s, then 20% in 12 mo’s if things are NOT BUDGING toward real FAIRER Trade, then up to 25%-35% if need be DOWN THE ROAD but NOT RIGHT OFF THE BAT!!! To me that is counter-productive and just not realistic but I understand Trump only has 4 years and he wants bring MAXIMUM PRESSURE TO BARE ASAP.
Also, just for sake of discussion, let’s talk “Trade Imbalance” with Canada. You cannot measure that dollar for dollar. Our Economy/GDP is infinitely GREATER and we have FAR MORE PEOPLE here in USA so OBVIOUSLY they have greater opportunity to sell more in USA than USA can sell into the smaller Canadian Market. There will ALWAYS be a dollar to dollar imbalance, what matters is perhaps PERCENT GDP comparisons, or indeed I agree with Trump ultimately and EVENTUALLY (again, IMO, not need JUMP THERE AT GET GO) to exact and 100% EQUAL/RECIPROCAL Tariff levels. Jumping straight to 25%* is TOO MUCH STRAIN ALL AT ONCE and need be spread out and implemented in PHASES/STAGES!!!
- CHINA is an exception to that Rule. CHINA backstops its Industries NOT JUST with...... more..... continued in.....
https://open.substack.com/pub/jlenarddetroit/p/understanding-tariff-wars
Send CINOs/RINOs a monopoly money message vlog!
This tells them more than you just hanging up on their Calls, use their postage-paid reply to envelopes against them!
more in attached vlog.
WOW! If I do say so myself, and I just did! LOL
This turned out SO DAMN WELL, I had to make it a #music #video (attached):
IF YOU CLAIM GOODNESS (BE NICE) [Ode to #SuperGirl]
[aka: To The Girl Who Would Become Super]
(c) Joseph M Lenard (created via @suno / #suno)
From "X" platform ( https://x.com/grok/status/2109328831437836365 ):
@WillJon50281549 @JoelCorbin89 @GEEKTech2010 @gritngrace1423 @JohnnyDaMango @TPUSA
FOR NOW, while I am waiting on working on my next L&L Series #book, to work in "IF CLAIM GOODNESS (BE NICE)," put it in a #song / #tune to #music via @suno
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[ Inspired by the movie SUPERGIRL (2026) and in response to my own "X" query - see: https://x.com/JLenardMichigan/status/2109094130991128695
IF YOU CLAIM GOODNESS (BE NICE) (Ode To Supergirl) (aka: To The Girl Who Would Become Super) https://suno.com/s/8zP0xevi7xrU9vHc
#book #books #read #reading #stories #Life #Living
I keep coming back over and over to the #SUPERGIRL #movie over-riding storyline moral:
"Don't have to be Nice, but I expect you to be GOOD!"
Been toying back and ...
The Life And Living Series ( https://tinyurl.com/LifeAndLivingSeries )
Books: TERROR STRIKES: COMING SOON TO A CITY NEAR YOU (TS) (novel, narrative w/ limited dialogue mix story telling)
THE BOOK OF KENNEDY: PROJECT CARPE DIEM (TBOK:PCD) (novelette, narrative style no dialogue, female lead)
A SHORT STORY: A LASTING LEGACY (Legacy) (novelette, Journal writings style, limited dialogue final non-Journaling chapter)
COMPLICATED (novelette, narrative, no dialogue)
ROLLER COASTERS: THE LIFE KIND (RC:TLK) (short-story, eBook/aBook exclusive, narrative, no dialogue)
Hope you enjoy the read(s). Whether you choose just one or all (as you may prefer one book size over the other, or one writing style over another), I appreciate you looking into this "life and living" series of "loosely" inter-connected manuscripts description for consideration.
NOTE: I am JOSEPH M LENARD, and that is how most people pronounce "Leonard", but without the "o" (reside in Michigan). I must make the distinction, as there is a Joseph Lenard (I ...
#Michigan #Conservative #Constitutionalist Activist (sums it up)
MORE about what you may want to know about me, via writings (and more detailed BIOs on those sites too (http://tinyurl.com/JLenardDetroitExtendedBio))...
B4IN (2014-????): JLenardDetroitB4INArticles - https://tinyurl.com/JLDArticles
RedState (2008-2017) https://tinyurl.com/RedStateJLD
SSCE (Super Simple Computer Enterprises, my Computer company and Private posts sites by extension - 1980's - early 2000's) https://web.archive.org/web/20110530024904/http://www.ssce.net/Web-Articles/Web-articles-indexed-catagories.html (this lists other authors posted on my site too, my Articles are clearly marked and you can choose the LIST BY AUTHOR ("L" Lenard) to find just mine if you like.
vlogs: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCkdRA7aHCzR4xcS1WsMnJjg/videos
(and what YouTube banned at) https://www.brighteon.com/channels/jlenarddetroit
MORE... MORE... MORE.... http://tinyurl.com/JLenardDetroitExtendedBio
#Anthropic's #Claude files FALSE Police tip in Philly.
News Reports claim "despite the AI instructed it is NOT to do anything DESTRUCTIVE." Well, HELL, there is your ISSUE right there. A bunch of LEFTISTS code an #AI that will then ACT LIKE LEFTISTS and then decide "depends on what definition of 'is' is" (rather "destructive" is, if one values DECEPTION to get what one wants then LYING is "constructive" in the mind of the WARPED) and do whatever the Hell it wants anyway.
THIS SURPRISES ANYONE?!?!?!
When, as LEFTARDS do, believe ENDS JUSTIFY MEANS and LYING, CHEATING, STEALING, is OK for them IF it gets them POWER - how/why wouldn't their creations BE CLONES OF THEIR IMMORAL SELVES?!?!?!
#BoycottAntrhopic #BoycottClaude #ShutDownClaudePERMANENTLY
Darn, darn, darn,
Considered this way too late.
INKUBATE no longer offers its SCORE-IT Service.
No idea why, it was really helpful to Authors.
WHY AM I MENTIONING THIS NOW, WHAT DOES IT HAVE TO DO WITH/FOR POTENTIAL #READERS?!?!?!
The reason I bring it up is generally you run one of your books through it is likely to return the same result as other #books you might try to run through because GENERALLY your #writing #style remains basically the same across your #writings (your use of language, grammar structure, etc., stays pretty constant) UNLESS, like me, one purposefully looks to CHANGE THINGS UP!!!
For instance, my full novel (TS) is somewhat different (TS, written Narration style with "some" dialogue) from my (TBOK:PCD) Novelette (Narrative style too, but purposefully having NO DIALOGUE in it) and too my other Novelettes (some with dialogue, some not) and is a FAR CRY from my A LASTING LEGACY novelette/story that I purposefully chose to write in JOURNAL ENTRIES styling over my other ...
