Meanwhile, inflation creeps in like a slow gas leak, choking the life out of the people who were supposed to be protected. The industries that were promised salvation don’t innovate, don’t improve, don’t get stronger—they just get dependent. Because that’s what tariffs do. They don’t protect; they cripple. They breed businesses that don’t need to compete, because they have the government shielding them from reality. They build industries that are propped up by force instead of value. That’s not capitalism. That’s economic cancer.
And the worst part? The whole thing fails. Every single time. The government will talk about economic nationalism, about rebuilding the workforce, about bringing jobs back home. But what actually happens? The consumer gets squeezed. The markets shrink. The jobs don’t come back. The companies that relied on global trade don’t suddenly start hiring American workers out of patriotism—they start cutting costs, laying off, outsourcing anyway because government mandates can’t stop market forces.
So what do you get? You get less trade, fewer jobs, more taxes, and weaker businesses. And for what? To give some politician a talking point? To let some bureaucrat stand at a podium and declare that he’s “standing up for the American worker” while the American worker stands in line at a food bank?
This is the reality of a trade war. It is not strength. It is not strategy. It is economic self-mutilation, performed by men who do not understand the simplest principle of human prosperity: that wealth is created through free exchange, through competition, through innovation—not through walls, not through government dictates, not through economic isolation.
And here’s the final joke, the last, cruel punchline to this whole comedy of errors: the world moves on. The companies that used to do business with America find someone else. The nations that used to buy American products stop waiting. And when the tariff war is over, when the damage is finally done and the politicians quietly reverse course, those markets are gone forever. The world doesn’t wait for fools. The world doesn’t care about your nationalist delusions or your protectionist fantasies. The world moves forward, and America—great, powerful, self-sabotaging America—is left behind, wondering how it lost a war it started against itself.
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S. Tominaga AKA CSW
Mar 20, 2025
https://x.com/CsTominaga/status/1902635061008330882?t=aF7E5S8cw-ITCFU6PBMZaw&s=19
https://t.me/S_Tominaga/2710
And the worst part? The whole thing fails. Every single time. The government will talk about economic nationalism, about rebuilding the workforce, about bringing jobs back home. But what actually happens? The consumer gets squeezed. The markets shrink. The jobs don’t come back. The companies that relied on global trade don’t suddenly start hiring American workers out of patriotism—they start cutting costs, laying off, outsourcing anyway because government mandates can’t stop market forces.
So what do you get? You get less trade, fewer jobs, more taxes, and weaker businesses. And for what? To give some politician a talking point? To let some bureaucrat stand at a podium and declare that he’s “standing up for the American worker” while the American worker stands in line at a food bank?
This is the reality of a trade war. It is not strength. It is not strategy. It is economic self-mutilation, performed by men who do not understand the simplest principle of human prosperity: that wealth is created through free exchange, through competition, through innovation—not through walls, not through government dictates, not through economic isolation.
And here’s the final joke, the last, cruel punchline to this whole comedy of errors: the world moves on. The companies that used to do business with America find someone else. The nations that used to buy American products stop waiting. And when the tariff war is over, when the damage is finally done and the politicians quietly reverse course, those markets are gone forever. The world doesn’t wait for fools. The world doesn’t care about your nationalist delusions or your protectionist fantasies. The world moves forward, and America—great, powerful, self-sabotaging America—is left behind, wondering how it lost a war it started against itself.
2/2
S. Tominaga AKA CSW
Mar 20, 2025
https://x.com/CsTominaga/status/1902635061008330882?t=aF7E5S8cw-ITCFU6PBMZaw&s=19
https://t.me/S_Tominaga/2710
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