The Truth About Tariffs

truth and today the truth about tariffs. Uh. Coming to you, ladies and gentlemen from smack dab in the middle of the fruited plain as I always do. Thank you very much again, Doug Billings dot us. Don't forget the most important thing I can tell you is to share this program and head over to Doug Billings dot us and prayerfully consider supporting the show. Set up that five dollars a month recurring donation so that we can continue to

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It's the same old playbook scare tactics and globalist garbage. They want you to be afraid, ladies and gentlemen, because when you're afraid, they believe liberals believe that you become more apt to depend upon big government. But here's the reality. Trump's tariffs are a masterstroke. They're about putting America first, about bringing jobs back, and they're about forcing the world, quite frankly, to play by our rules. That's what it's all about. The Hello, Deacon Jody, what's going on? How

are you? Thanks? It's good to see you out there in in YouTube land. Thank you, Deacon Jody for being out there. I think that what we're gonna do is take a look today at the tariffs. The reason why many of you on the right side know some of this, but you might not and probably not have heard this in these kinds of words and in this language. It's

a very simple idea. It's not complicated, and the radical left because of Trump derangement syndrome, because of intellectual immaturity, and because of blind partisanship, doesn't see it the way that we see it. But I want you to know that right now, the right Side with Doug Billings is upon you. Are you ready, ladies and gentlemen. I think it's time to get everybody.

Doug Gollings. God bless you, and God bless America, and thank you.

there it is, ladies and gentlemen. Okay, So today tariffs, we're going to walk the radical liberal mob off the ledge, because that's what I do. If anything, I'm here to help, ladies and gentlemen. I'm here to help the liberals come into the room of reality, to see the truth, to understand the truth. And this is a topic that is

not that difficult to understand. It's not that difficult to see why President Trump is invoking the tariffs against a world that has been non reciprocal in their approach to how they deal with us. And so America is no longer the proverbial doormat, if you will. So the truth really about these tariffs is that they are not at all the evil, destructive economic force that the radical left is telling you that they are. So tariffs hurt American consumers.

This is what the radical left wants you to believe. You've heard it from the to balking heads on CNN. You've heard it from the Ivory Tower economists that say, oh, tariffs are going to raise our prices. The little guy is going to have to pay more when he goes to the store and buy a toaster. All that's what they want. They want to scare you fear. It's the driving motivator behind all of their policies, platforms, and politics. Look at what we experienced during the Biden years every

one of their policies, chaos, crime, and crisis. That's what they want, and it begs the question why, because they want you to become dependent upon big government, therefore and thereby becoming dependent upon them and their liberal agenda. Everything they say is scary, but it's also bs. When Trump slapped tariffs, let's take a little trip back in time and remember this. When he slapped tariffs on steel and aluminum back in twenty eighteen, there was a twenty five

percent tariff on steel and ten percent on aluminum. You remember your grocery bill skyrocketing back then. I'll tell you you don't, because it didn't. Did Walmart shut down? No? Now price is ticked up a bit one percent on some items, not everything, but one percent on some things. That was according to the Tax Foundation. But the sky ladies and gentlemen did not fall upon us. Why is that, because, as it turns out, American companies are brilliant and they

can adapt. They found new suppliers, they ramped up their own domestic production, and guess what happened then, my friends, jobs came back. Steel jobs alone back in those days jumped by thousands. And these are real jobs, folks. These are not the head fry cook jobs at McDonald's. We're talking real, substantial, make a living jobs. The left ignores this because it goes against their sob story. And here's the kicker. The tariffs didn't just protect jobs. They sent

a message around the world. China, Canada, the European Union. They all screamed bloody murder when it was going on and when it first happened, but you know what they did, They came to the table. Take Canada for example. You remember one of the poster men for the wussification of men, Justin Trudeau, the whussification of men across the planet. He's one of their poster boys. Or really he threw a fit over the steel tariffs back in twenty nineteen. He

was but you know what else he did. He was soon at the table negotiating what's called the USMCA, which replaced NAFTA. That deal right there cut trade deficits and boosted American manufacturing more so than in any other time in modern history. Liberals will tell you another one of their mantras is tariffs isolate us, Doug. They're going to isolate us. We don't want to be alone. We won't we want to play with the of the world. Wrong. They don't isolate us, ladies and gentlemen. They simply make

us the shot caller. We are able to call the shots when you've got the biggest economy in the world, Ladies and gentlemen, twenty eight trillion dollars gross domestic product that's of twenty twenty five, and you flex that kind of muscle. Other nations don't walk away from you. They make deals with you. Okay, So now here's another liberal whopper that's out there. Tariffs are gonna kill free trade. I can't even get through that without laughing. Free trade. Please.

What we had before Trump came along was a one way street, them walking all over US China dump cheap stuff junk in our country. Mexico was siphoning our jobs. America was paying for it all. The US trade deficit hit eight hundred and fifty nine billion dollars in twenty twenty two, and that was before Trump's policies started to bite. His tariffs Now, remember think ten to twenty five percent

on Chinese goods, forced to rethink in China. By twenty twenty, China's exports to United States dropped sixteen percent, and we started making stuff here in America again. Free trade is great, don't get me wrong. Free trade is awesome when it's fair trade. But when you're bleeding jobs to countries that cheat by subsidizing their own industries stealing our technology, tariffs

are a wake up call, and Trump got that right. Anyone, folks, anyone within an a shred of intellectual maturity, gets this. They understand it. The left doesn't, or if they they do, they purposely misguide you just to further their own partisan agenda. And don't let them. Don't let them fool you with this other, this global harmony, Doug. We've got to get along. We have to get along with the rest of the people.

The rest of the country is on this planet. Really, these are the same people who are molotov cocktailing Tesla dealerships across the country. These are the same people who cheered on Administrator Biden and Vice Pretender Harris when they ended the Keystone Xcel pipeline and handed energy dominance back over to Opak. Trump's tariffs, my friends, are not about

starting fights. They're about winning. Anyone who denies this, anyone who's against this is either again intellectually immature, a blind partisan, or simply anti American. That's the only those are the only three options that are out there. Otherwise you're on board, you get it, you understand it. Pro America. We want to win, and when America wins, the rest of the world wins. Ladies and gentlemen, look at the numbers. US manufacturing added four hundred thousand jobs from twenty seventeen to

twenty nineteen pre COVID thanks to President Trump's tariff policies. Now, liberals will cherry pick the downsides higher cost on some imports one percent, right, but ignore they always ignore the upside, which is this, American workers are clocking in to work. Factories are humming again and coming back to the United States. Communities are thriving. That's not a loss, folks. That's called a comeback. So why are tariff's a good idea? It's a simple answer. They put America first in a world

that's been taking advantage of us for decades. I'll break it down for you. Make sure you share this with your liberal friend. They need our help. Number One, jobs, When you tariff foreign steel for washing machines like Trump did with South Korea in twenty eighteen, you make it cheaper to buy American products. Whirlpool and it added two hundred jobs in Ohio at a factory just because of the tariffs. Number two is leverage. We've got it. Tariffs are a negotiating hammer. I used to do this for

a living when I was in Corporate America. I negotiated collective bargaining agreements against unions on behalf of corporations. And we use things like this for leverage. China has been ripping us off to the tune of three hundred billion dollars in ip theft ladies and gentlemen. That is absolutely crazy that we don't do anything about that. Trump's twenty five percent tariff on their goods in twenty nineteen, What

did that do well. That got Xijing ping up at night sleepless to rethink his tariff strategy against the United States. They started buying more United States soy more United States pork. Fifty billion dollars were signed by China by twenty twenty, precisely because of the tariffs put in place by President Trump. Now I'm in Kansas right there, fifty billion dollars an agricultural deal signed. That's winning for Kansas. That's winning for

farmers everywhere. And the third so we've got jobs leveraged. And now the third one is national security. You think it's smart, ladies and gentlemen, you think it's smart to rely on China for steel or computer chips or rare earth materials minerals. I don't tariffs force us to rebuild what we've lost. I mean again, look at aluminum. It's an easy example. Our production was dying down to seventy thousand tons by twenty seventeen, seventy thousand tons a year

by twenty seventeen. Trump comes along and acts some tariffs and it kicked back up to one point one million tons by twenty twenty. That's not just economics, my friends, that is strength liberals call it protectionism, really protectionism. I call it survival. We've got to do this, and they always bring up the global market. So let's talk about the global market. Liberals will tell you that tariffs shrink our influence. Wrong again, they make us the king maker,

ladies and gentlemen. When Trump hit the European Union with tariffs, they didn't boycott us. They bought more more American products, up to three hundred percent more from twenty sixteen to twenty twenty. Why is that? Because we're the market everybody wants. We have twenty trillion dollars in consumer spending power. Friends, Tariffs will tell other countries you want in, you want to play with us, all right, you got to play fair, that's all. That's all this is, And tariffs do that.

Japan they cut tariffs on US beef after Trump threatened auto tariffs on them, and exports doubled by twenty twenty one. For US folks, this isn't losing. This is called dominating in a world where radical liberalism says we shouldn't be dominant, we should be wissified. I e. Tim Walls, Justin Trudeau, the poster men of wussification. You know, it's not losing, it's dominating, and we're back. America is back. That's American exceptionalism.

It's not ego, it's not braggadocious. It's the truth. We have the largest economy. When our economy thrives, every one of these countries benefit. Rising tide lifts all ships. Right. Here's why the left really trips over itself and gets all tied up in knots because they claim that tariffs are gonna start. I wish I could play the Star Wars theme, trade wars. That's what they say. It's trade wars, ladies and gentlemen, and Trump is Darth Vader. Really, where

is the war? Where is it? Because China has blinked, They've cut some of their own tariffs. They're gonna cut more. The European Union they grumbled a bit, but they're right now signing deals. Canada, Mexico. They didn't come and invade US. They joined USMCA after NAFTA was renegotiated or dumped. I should say, folks, tariffs do not burn bridges between company countries. Tariffs don't. They don't burn relationships. What tariffs do is

that they build negotiating tables. Trump knows that other nations need us more than we need them. Our GDP's doubles China per capita, and it triples the European Union's average. We hold all the cards. Tariffs just remind other countries of that. All right, So let me let me take a minute and wrap up, because this is important. The next time you're at your cocktail party and a radical liberal confronts you about tariffs, you're now because of this show,

fully armed with the facts. The liberal critique of President Trump's tariffs at tariffs is a house of cards, and it's built on fear, not facts. Prices don't soar, trade doesn't collapse, We're not at war, and America is not going to lose. What will happen is that jobs are going to come back. The nations who are grumbling are going to negotiate, and we're starting to win again. Tariffs are not perfect. Sure, some rare things and prices will go up, but the trade off is sovereignty. The trade

off is security and a stronger middle class. The left wants us begging at the globalist trough for scraps, and Trump is saying, uh huh no, America, first, please and thank you. So that's why I'm proud to stand on the right side of all of this and be with you. See what I did there, This is what it's all about, having the guts to tell people what we're doing here,

that America is no longer a doormat. You don't hear anybody else talking about this in these terms because here on this program is where you get the unfettered truth, the analysis of the state of play in America today. Tariffs they bring other nations to the table. They put our workers, our farmers, are families first. It puts America first, and that's the Trump way. It also, ironically happens to

be the American way. So next time some blue check collared professor or some liberal kook Democrat member of the elected class cries out about tariffs, you can tell them this, Doug Billings said, check the scorecard, because America is winning. Unless you're anti America and you don't want us to win, you're on board with this. I can't make it. It is not any simple. I mean, it's just so simple to understand. Again, ladies and gentlemen, I'll end where I begin.

The only people who disagree with this are either blind partisans or they're plagued with a chronic case of intellectual immaturity. They're not pro America if they're not on board. They just some of them don't realize this because of their blind partisanship or because they just don't get it intellectually. But this is the truth. It's a good thing that we're doing this. And Trump has never said they're going

to be permanent. We have to get them all to come down and be reciprocal, and that's the end game. And that's what's beginning to happen because they're coming to the table. All right. That's it. Ladies and gentlemen, listen, have a great, great weekend coming up. Don't forget Doug

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