For decades, a chorus of voices from across the political spectrum and the mainstream media has warned about the dangers of America’s reliance on foreign nations, particularly China, for critical goods, including medicine and other pharmaceuticals.
It isn't about logic, reason, or achieving anything economically. It is 100% about finding any and all ways to be critical of Trump and undermine anything he attempts to do. That is the only goal.
Mainstream media has been dead to me for over10 years due to bias and opinion reporting instead of factual news reporting. I will not waste my time watching liberal owned talking heads who cover for traitors as they blow smoke up your ass.
The globalist model was a UN agenda and now that it’s played out they’re switching to their multi-regional model they’ve discussed since the 1960’s. This is just all part of the agreed upon business cycle of War, Boom, Bust, War, Boom, Bust. Wash, rinse, repeat. With every cycle, more and more $ and power is filtered back up to the top 0.0001%, which has been working overtime to claw back what the lost with the advent of the Industrial Revolution.
You can easily go read about the think tank writings about the multi-polar model over the past 50-60 years. It’s well documented. Play out the globalist model and then return to regionalism.
A good review but it is not helpful to show media hypocrisy. Paraphrasing Gary Saul Morson of Northwestern University and a lifelong student of Russia, "Lenin told a colleague there is no such thing as hypocrisy. If we say something today it is to advance the Party. If we say the opposite next week, it is for the same reason. We should all look at political words and behavior through this lens." Source: Leninthink, Gary Saul Morson, The New Criterion, 10/2019.
The media sources you quote, and their editors and their owners are "all" Democrats. Your initial quotes from Trump years 2017-2020 were designed to scare voters about national security during his administration. The 2025 quotes from these same sources are designed to scare voters about tariff induced inflation during Trump's second administration. From my Morson educated perspective these media voices are not exhibiting hypocrisy. Their purpose at any point in time is to advance the Democratic Party. In this they are being completely consistent.
Sharyl please accept my apology. You did not use the word hypocrisy, that came from a comment. You properly used "amnesia". I might term your quotes from 2017-2020 "commission" (against Trump) regarding national security; and from 2025 "omission" (or amnesia as you put it regarding national security) with "commission" (against Trump) regarding inflation.
My comment on hypocrisy still holds and I hear it from journalists and commentators in outrage against both Republicans and Democrats. Can hypocrisy be used to characterize a commission followed by omission?
Time is on the President’s common sense strategy. As countries negotiate new tariff deals the opposition will lose their minds. Meanwhile the stock market jitters have eased, even though this stock market is highly volatile which has nothing to do with the tariffs and everything to do with an overvalued stock market, corporate bankruptcies on the rise and layoffs like the recent UPS layoff of 20,000 employees.
When the MSM criticizes what the President is doing it is like they are on China’s side. The President has it right. The entire world wants access to the largest consumer market in the world because Americans buy more crap they don’t need than any other country in the world! Without access to our market factories in China are already closing, workers are protesting and it is getting very tough for them. The difference is that the CCP does not care how much their people suffer, so while the MSM wants the President to cave he will not. As the entire world negotiates new trade deals China will be isolated and forced to make a deal.
The 20,000 UPS layoffs were due to UPS terminating their non-moneymaking decision to work with Amazon and not from their day to day flow of moving goods
Common to each of the stories Sharyl cited is an approach that is standard across MSM outlets: they omit context. If one values context within the journalistic enterprise, you could work out its benefits:
- give people a sense of what is happening, the possible reasons why, and what may result
- insight into the rationale behind decisions, actions, and occurences (so we can work across differences)
- citizens who are more informed can, theoretically, make better decisisions
When reporters don't provide that context, we can try to work out why that is, too:
- to punish disfavored candidates' reputations and shift public perception
- because they don't recognize that context (which reflects mediocre journalism)
- the expression of tribalist affiliations
I think what we see in these tariff stories is informed by a combination of the three: an accounting of what they believe will happen, driven by to some extent by a moral impulse to punish, but also informed by an us vs. them approach where articles like these can be seen as exercises in point scoring.
Great analysis. I like the examples of the imbalanced treatment of Trumps moves. His critics know, though, that most people are too focused on short term gain and virtually blind to long term pain. But that’s what got us in this mess in the first place. We should have done something long ago.
See "Why the Tariff War is Going to Cost Millions of US Jobs, the End of Small Businesses and a Downgrade in the Livelihood in the Biggest Wealth Transfer Since the Lockdowns: Part ll of 'Make Whose America Great Again?' Series" by Cynthia Chung on substack.
Your work is always impeccable which makes me wonder about paragraph 4 where you write "Yet, as former President Donald Trump has worked to address the problems in a way that no other president has done...". "former" President?? What am I missing in the context?
The problem is that you have to have some sort of manufacturing base in place before you slap on protectionist tariffs. The United States does not precisely because our capitalists shipped it all overseas so they wouldn't have to pay American workers as much.
The Port of Los Angeles says their imports were down 60% just last week. There will be a lot of empty store shelves by Memorial Day, and there will be tremendous pressure on Trump to roll back a lot of those tariffs.
That pressure will probably work. Give it six months. If I'm mistaken I will be happy to admit it.
It isn't about logic, reason, or achieving anything economically. It is 100% about finding any and all ways to be critical of Trump and undermine anything he attempts to do. That is the only goal.
Great job at exposing their hypocrisy, Sharyl!
Mainstream media has been dead to me for over10 years due to bias and opinion reporting instead of factual news reporting. I will not waste my time watching liberal owned talking heads who cover for traitors as they blow smoke up your ass.
The globalist model was a UN agenda and now that it’s played out they’re switching to their multi-regional model they’ve discussed since the 1960’s. This is just all part of the agreed upon business cycle of War, Boom, Bust, War, Boom, Bust. Wash, rinse, repeat. With every cycle, more and more $ and power is filtered back up to the top 0.0001%, which has been working overtime to claw back what the lost with the advent of the Industrial Revolution.
You can easily go read about the think tank writings about the multi-polar model over the past 50-60 years. It’s well documented. Play out the globalist model and then return to regionalism.
A good review but it is not helpful to show media hypocrisy. Paraphrasing Gary Saul Morson of Northwestern University and a lifelong student of Russia, "Lenin told a colleague there is no such thing as hypocrisy. If we say something today it is to advance the Party. If we say the opposite next week, it is for the same reason. We should all look at political words and behavior through this lens." Source: Leninthink, Gary Saul Morson, The New Criterion, 10/2019.
The media sources you quote, and their editors and their owners are "all" Democrats. Your initial quotes from Trump years 2017-2020 were designed to scare voters about national security during his administration. The 2025 quotes from these same sources are designed to scare voters about tariff induced inflation during Trump's second administration. From my Morson educated perspective these media voices are not exhibiting hypocrisy. Their purpose at any point in time is to advance the Democratic Party. In this they are being completely consistent.
Sharyl please accept my apology. You did not use the word hypocrisy, that came from a comment. You properly used "amnesia". I might term your quotes from 2017-2020 "commission" (against Trump) regarding national security; and from 2025 "omission" (or amnesia as you put it regarding national security) with "commission" (against Trump) regarding inflation.
My comment on hypocrisy still holds and I hear it from journalists and commentators in outrage against both Republicans and Democrats. Can hypocrisy be used to characterize a commission followed by omission?
Time is on the President’s common sense strategy. As countries negotiate new tariff deals the opposition will lose their minds. Meanwhile the stock market jitters have eased, even though this stock market is highly volatile which has nothing to do with the tariffs and everything to do with an overvalued stock market, corporate bankruptcies on the rise and layoffs like the recent UPS layoff of 20,000 employees.
When the MSM criticizes what the President is doing it is like they are on China’s side. The President has it right. The entire world wants access to the largest consumer market in the world because Americans buy more crap they don’t need than any other country in the world! Without access to our market factories in China are already closing, workers are protesting and it is getting very tough for them. The difference is that the CCP does not care how much their people suffer, so while the MSM wants the President to cave he will not. As the entire world negotiates new trade deals China will be isolated and forced to make a deal.
The 20,000 UPS layoffs were due to UPS terminating their non-moneymaking decision to work with Amazon and not from their day to day flow of moving goods
Common to each of the stories Sharyl cited is an approach that is standard across MSM outlets: they omit context. If one values context within the journalistic enterprise, you could work out its benefits:
- give people a sense of what is happening, the possible reasons why, and what may result
- insight into the rationale behind decisions, actions, and occurences (so we can work across differences)
- citizens who are more informed can, theoretically, make better decisisions
When reporters don't provide that context, we can try to work out why that is, too:
- to punish disfavored candidates' reputations and shift public perception
- because they don't recognize that context (which reflects mediocre journalism)
- the expression of tribalist affiliations
I think what we see in these tariff stories is informed by a combination of the three: an accounting of what they believe will happen, driven by to some extent by a moral impulse to punish, but also informed by an us vs. them approach where articles like these can be seen as exercises in point scoring.
Great analysis. I like the examples of the imbalanced treatment of Trumps moves. His critics know, though, that most people are too focused on short term gain and virtually blind to long term pain. But that’s what got us in this mess in the first place. We should have done something long ago.
Great information! I like the way you pulled at all together! Ty!
Hypocrisy is all lefty understands
It’s never the issue at hand they care about it’s whose idea it is
Sorry Sharyl, I don't agree with your hypotheses.
See "Why the Tariff War is Going to Cost Millions of US Jobs, the End of Small Businesses and a Downgrade in the Livelihood in the Biggest Wealth Transfer Since the Lockdowns: Part ll of 'Make Whose America Great Again?' Series" by Cynthia Chung on substack.
go to cynthiachung.substack.com/p/why-the-tariff-war-is-going-to-cost
or
substack.com/home/post/p-163116436
lol
Your work is always impeccable which makes me wonder about paragraph 4 where you write "Yet, as former President Donald Trump has worked to address the problems in a way that no other president has done...". "former" President?? What am I missing in the context?
Well, he is that, too. 😉
Thank you!
EAT SHIT! They were all wrong! How’s that Crow taste??
So on the ball, ma’am! Hypocrisy is best pointed out cold!
The problem is that you have to have some sort of manufacturing base in place before you slap on protectionist tariffs. The United States does not precisely because our capitalists shipped it all overseas so they wouldn't have to pay American workers as much.
The Port of Los Angeles says their imports were down 60% just last week. There will be a lot of empty store shelves by Memorial Day, and there will be tremendous pressure on Trump to roll back a lot of those tariffs.
That pressure will probably work. Give it six months. If I'm mistaken I will be happy to admit it.
It's 5/20, only a handful of days for your prophesy to come true. Panic obscures rational thought.