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But the tariffs are on hold, you may have started the sky is falling a little to soon, It might show up later. But now is not later

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Thank you for noticing that. I have pinned your comment, and added my response to the article:

The sky has been falling for a while by now. :)

The timing of when it will land is pending.

Of course, the "trade war" can only be a diversion or even a "stupidity test":

https://rayhorvaththesource.substack.com/p/the-stupidity-index-is-alive-on-substack

Or is this to test if people figure out what's going on? Better: Is it an attempt to make people realize the globalist threat finally?

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I am new here, still tiring to find my way around

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You are in the right place! Nobody has to agree with me; I only provide aspects that nobody else does most of the time, so my readers have more variable to consider, when they are making their own decisions!

Imagine how exhausted I, as a one-person source, feel many times! :)

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I'm trying to figure out what this tariff thing is about. Will they cause a "trade war"? We are already in WW III. So, tariff is a tax on goods from another country, yes? Who will pay the tariff? From what I've seen in life, whenever a tax or fee is imposed, the user (buyer) pays the fee, because the company doesn't want to eat it. I guess this is supposed to put domestic producers on a level playing field-- cheaper foreign junk becomes as expensive as local junk, so hopefully you buy the local junk. Does this benefit the consumer? No way in hell. It might benefit the local producer. So far, it seems to just be a game for Trump to play. He tells foreign companies some thing(s) he wants, so the company (country) gives it to him or he slams a tariff on them. The foreigners might retaliate against a tariff by imposing one on American imported goods. Did anybody win anything? Not the buyers in either country. Some jokers say tariffs can replace income taxes. That would be terrific. The next joker says there won't be enough tariffs to replace the income tax. Will government roll back income taxes to just enough to make up the difference? Fat chance, methinks. Will they apply the tariff proceeds to the national debt? Nice thought, but don't hold your breath. Most likely tariffs will become extra money for the enslavement (government) to spend. The wealthy, lazy jerks in Congress would love that. Tariffs will be another way to worry and confuse us. Is that the plan? So, will there be tariffs or not? I don't see any purpose other than it will be another way to screw the taxpayer. Bend over and you will like it.

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As I am describing it in the article, all politicians in all participating countries are serving the globalist plan of controlled demolition of all these countries. Nobody is "retaliating" for anything: this is an orchestrated show so that politicians can blame another country's politicians for all the bad things to come...

Theoretically, only the manufacturer pays through transporting company of the product to the mercantilist government, but its loss is transferred to the consumer in elevated prices, which also generates money for state governments in the form of sales taxes. The price hikes speed up inflation, which will eventually lead to the demise of the currency (and obviously, the people will be offered the CBDC after they suffered enough to beg for it).

Congress is a bunch of sock puppets.

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PCR has noticed but not mentioned it being a nice tactic to bring on the chaos and fiat collapse.

https://www.paulcraigroberts.org/2025/02/02/us-to-impose-tariffs-on-canada-mexico-and-china-on-feb-1-and-tyranny-on-america/

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PCR also looks like an agent to me...

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A witless insider from the past

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On a comical note... our Canadian news station is telling people that the best way to cope...don't think or worry all day until a set time , like 6:30 then worry straight for 15 minutes then go back to what you were doing and make sure to stay social , get out there and keep busy! 😆

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🇨🇦🤡 🌎

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No kidding. :)

No more antisocial distancing?

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I've been waiting to hear someone else's take on this... I was thinking that it was just going to be a bluff at first. Then my question was , who is going to profit from this?... up in Canada, I witnessed several people panic buying materials for their house builds way ahead of time. Others are trying to organize boycott of all American food products. Certainly a test to see how people prepare and react to such a thing. And now they lay the bed for civil unrest between the nations. The atmosphere up here for many is high stress, and we know that that is also perfect breading ground for illness.

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Thank you for your report from "Beautiful British Columbia"! My wife is from Vancouver! :)

I'll never forget the stress under which my wife and I were shopping during the muzzle mandates; we never wore one (even before getting informed about the details, I had known enough that if there was a "killer virus" (of course, no such things exist, but it took me a couple of months to figure it out) and the death toll would be 98%, I would prefer to die as a human being instead of living in fear. Thankfully for all potential participants, nobody accosted us. :) At the same time, I encountered only about six people without a muzzle in about 18 months... Now, that WAS stressful...

My next post will be about what I've missed all these years...

Sadly, everyone else did...

After the CBDC, there is no need for money, but money is being used for destroying whatever has been left of The West...

Dunno what you witnessed. There will always be Black Friday buyers who will risk to be trodden to death or tread on someone else. Could it be another psyop in Canada?

The "stupidity index" must be constantly checked, preferably with people who volunteer to be subjected to the experiment:

https://rayhorvaththesource.substack.com/p/the-stupidity-index-is-alive-on-substack

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We live in a tiny community, I never thought that masks would make it here but they did! I never wore one and I quickly got exemption notes for myself and the children, knowing that if they did that they would be around for a long time. I knew that we wouldn't see a case of covid in our area until after the mass vaccination campaign came to our town and sure enough with in two weeks it exploded with positive tests ;)

We must have had a real leathel batch because I've lost count of how many have died or been seriously harmed!

I lived in Vancouver for many years before coming back here :)

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Great article Ray. I think the tariffs and “trade wars” have always been part of the agenda. They were just waiting for the re-entry of Trump onto the political stage to bring this phase of the plan into effect. The brainwashing of the majority of the Canadian population by the MSM is pretty much complete. Canadian people have been so programmed to hate Trump that they are now willing to do anything to fight the “evil Don”. It’s truly hilarious. Buy Canadian they shout now, stop using US based social media LOL, Im never going to America again they say. Shut the oil and power off to the states is shouted from their keyboards into the “American” social media platforms! These same Canadians are absolutely blind to the fact that Herr Trudeau has been destroying Canada economically and socially since 2015! Their ignorance has them hating all the wrong people for all the wrong reasons. They are all a little late to the game lol. This is merely the economic death blow for Canada, it’s always been planned. Trudeau has said he will step down, he suspended parliament while they select a new Liberal party leader… Ultra Globalist and former Bank of Canada and England chief WEF puppet Mark Carney is going to be installed without a doubt. The tariffs are the perfect storm for the freshly minted Carney will declare an “economic emergency” in order to suspend our upcoming election, securing his tenure as the Unelected Prime Minister of Canada until further notice. There is talk here already about the government swooping in with a Universal Basic Income relief package or CERB for people who have lost jobs due to the “economic emergency”. Of course you will have to sign on to the digital identification system… like I said, always been the plan. Canada will cease to exist economically at least within the year sadly. This has been in the works since silver spoon Justin was thrown into the political arena back in 2010. People need to get their eyes open to what is about to happen, better late than never.

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Yes, well said.

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The orchestrated trade will likely to start a chain reaction for the collapse. This move is so daring and impertinent that even I wasn't expecting it...

Trump must answer only one question: Why did he introduce a mercantilist tool to protect domestic production, when there is no domestic production to begin with? (I added the question to the article.)

However, I accurately projected that he was (s)elected because the new, unpopular crap he was going to introduce will meet less resistance because of his religiously fervent and devout acolytes...

The tragicomic part is that even without being brainwashed, one can do only an extremely limited number of things, unless the enablers, or at least the enforcers, can be convinced that they will come up next on the line to the slaughterhouse. Thinking about learning how to say that in Mandarin. :)

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Rising tariffs will result in a deceleration of the American economy as goods become more expensive. Unemployment will rise and wealth will disintegrate.

Tariffs will not replace the regular income tax. They are too volatile. As the economy falters, less will be collected from import tariffs. There will still be a need to borrow money no matter how many pennies DOGE purges from the system.

The world will see a recession of sorts as countries see their exports shrink.

This will occur over the next two years and there is likely to be some form of trade wars which the almighty Trump cannot control unless he gives up the old 1800's idea of tariffs to support an economy.

The value of money is firmly entrenched in the value of the production of a nation. As production falters, the value of money and confidence in it also falters.

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The orchestrated trade will likely to start a chain reaction for the collapse. This move is so daring and impertinent that even I wasn't expecting it...

Trump must answer only one question: Why did he introduce a mercantilist tool to protect domestic production, when there is no domestic production to begin with?

America has been the country of pizza delivery personnel and Gender Studies graduates for a long time... The "economy" is the fraud of the Stock Market...

Theoretically, Trump wants to end income tax, but income tax will not be needed after the CBDC...

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The energy tariffs are also going to cause problems to the eastern half of Canada. If The Turd shuts off those pipelines to America....

Those pipelines go from their starting point in the west, down through America before they come back up into eastern Canada. https://x.com/Toxicanadian11/status/1886291205358563399

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Also, I added your contents to the article.

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Honoured!

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The idea is that "it was not me" can be played against the people, while the game-masters remain the same/ It happened before in Britain, when the Russians were set up as scapegoats, while Britain received about 2% of its energy needs from Russia:

https://rayhorvaththesource.substack.com/p/teacher-who-is-causing-energy-shortages

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Since I repented of being just another killing machine over 40 years ago, my days are counted one by One. Because I am not willing to participate in the mass insanity of killing, stealing and destroying lives,my own fate is a foregone conclusion. They can and have tortured me before and killing the body(s) just moves them on to their next victim. I have very little left to steal now, but I won't miss this world anymore than it will miss me.

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