LET IT DIE: Trump’s Tariff War Isn’t Just Economic Strategy—It’s an Exorcism | Part ONE
Donald Trump has never simply played to win.
He plays to expose.
Art of the Deal, anyone?
I know enough about tariffs to recognize that both “sides” of the argument can make logical, coherent cases. This is largely why at some point many many months ago I started moving into an angle in my writing that explored narratives and what the public is gleaning and is supposed to glean from information deployments by both supposed good guys and bad guys. Today I explore that angle with the tariff question, something on which I’ve offered an introductory salvo on February 4 when Canada and Mexico were in the crosshairs of Trump’s process.
And yes, that process can sometimes seem strange.
We saw his penchant for exposure with the Gaza story, and for some untold reason, there are still people—including on the conservative “side”—that don’t get it. Did you see what happened in the way of Middle Eastern-nation sovereignty when he floated the idea of simply “having” Gaza a couple months back? Countries were scrambling to come up with their own plans, for their own region, which sounds an awful like like national sovereignty to me.
That Trump quirk got them off the couch and interested in their own affairs. His media deployments are often not what he wants in the end–but it is necessary in the short term to gain what he actually does, especially in light of how he knows the antagonistic media will react.
Here’s a take from one “Burning Bright” today:
Always let the enemy hang himself.
This is Art of War 101, and as long as we don’t take this very real war strategy into account, we will continue to look like kittens trying to follow a tennis match with each new day’s “news” flying back and forth. I’ve been following this for quite some time, the spiritual dimension of this financial hell we are in:
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There’s a lot of context in those four articles that can help you understand what Trump is doing, which seems to me to always be a longer game than many Americans are wanting to wait for.
When will we learn this very real and very frequently visited pattern? It’s like scouting for the next game–but that takes time, and certainly more of it than what we see in a Facebook post or in a sound clip from one of our favorite TV characters. And I’ll say this as an adjacent point: If you don’t support Trump, squabbling over each new flight of the tennis ball or over some perceived (and grossly misplaced) incompetence on his part isn’t the way to go. If you want to put the alarm out there against Trump, do it by pointing to the fact that he is always right and seemingly has information at his disposal he shouldn’t have.
The magic acts he pulls with a mere narrative deployment here and another there is what should concern you—as they admittedly concern me even while I enjoy the “winning” and covering the unique angle of information war in this digital space. In short, he seems to have too much power and ability to move a populace with a single move of his thumb. But I leave that allowance (and Good Samaritan hint at a better argument against him) alone for the remainder of this piece. One can address only so many points in one article….
Tariffs, 1913–and Two Chinas?
The latest with Trump’s tariffs aren’t just negotiations. They’re narrative disruptions, giant spotlights on an ocean of complexity and corruption, the kind that make you squint like it’s dawning on you what miles and miles of monsters and mountains are actually below the surface.
–Because when Trump steps up to the podium and tells you that income tax was a con job pushed by foreign interests, he’s not exaggerating.
He’s telling you the truth.
Here he is back in October, before the election, with Joe Rogan:
While talking about tariffs, Trump was asked by Rogan, “Did you just float out the idea of getting rid of income taxes and replacing it with tariffs?”
“Well, OK.”
…Rogan asked, “Were you serious about that?”
“Yeah, sure. Why not?…Because…our country was the richest in the, relatively, in the 1880s and 1890s. A president who was assassinated named McKinley—he was the tariff king. He spoke beautifully of tariffs.”
“And then around in the early 1900s, they switched over stupidly to frankly an income tax. And you know why? Because countries were putting a lot of pressure on America: ‘We don’t want to pay tariffs, please don’t.’ You know they, believe me, they control our politicians,” Trump said.
He had this to say about 1913 yesterday:
And he had this to say about 1913 last week at the Liberation Day White House event:
“Then in 1913, for reasons unknown to Mankind, they established the income tax.”
Here’s one more:
1913. It is important. And so too apparently, is the story of the Titanic–1912.
He said politicians–we–are controlled. That’s the word he used. Not convinced. Not persuaded. Not diplomatically maneuvered.
Controlled.
Okay, but controlled by whom?
China certainly appears to play its role—but what does “China” even mean? We forget that communist infiltration is at play everywhere–that the globalist deep state has its tentacles exactly there, across the globe. But too, that also means there is a counter element in every nation, a sovereign counter element, just as there is in the United States.
Their retaliatory tariffs aren’t just economic moves—they’re narrative ones. President Xi Jinping needs to posture for his people who don’t know what war is taking place behind the scenes, just as Trump does for Americans who don’t know here. The trade war provides a public spectacle, a shield, a way for both leaders to quietly disengage their nations from the corporate viper that has sucked them dry. Is Xi one of the bad guys?
I admittedly don’t know the answer to that. But I do know that there are anomalies and questions that result from an antagonistic media that has always lied to me about everything else.
I do know that there are many a liberal who drank the Kool-Aid of Trump being a racist and the villain and any other number of lies told by that same media.
It is something we have to get better at if we’re going to understand things–considering the number of enemies we actually have and where they sit on the chess board. “Burning Bright,” a self-professed former Boston liberal turned sane and a Trump supporter, has presented a different side of Xi than we are used to. Here is a small piece:
The question is, if these optics are putting both bought and paid Marxist media rags and right-wing doomers on heart monitors, does it hint that there is another angle to take with regards to the Chinese theater, and the Chinese leadership?
Is there more we can glean from looking not just to Xi Jinping’s past, from his rise to power to his seeming war with legacy elements within the Chinese Communist party and even allusions to Presidents Trump in the U.S. and Putin in Russia, and from his present, from his shoring up of the emergent and growing BRICS alliance to his posture toward western globalists?
After all, the very title of this piece, ‘Tigers and Flies,’ is a reference to the name given to the ‘anti-corruption’ campaign that Xi has reportedly been waging from within his own borders since he took office….
I remember the ‘Tigers and Flies’ campaign blowing my mind when I dug into it in 2022, and I still haven’t managed to trace all the threads to their place in what is sure to be a dizzying tapestry. We’ll get back to that particular dig down below.
That said, isn’t it interesting to refer back to ‘State-run’ media like the BBC in the current context of the USAID exposure of the US Media Industrial Complex?
Those of us in this audience have known for ages that the media is bought and paid for, but now, in a surreal actualization of promises made not just by Donald Trump…, the receipts aren’t just being provided, but in full view of the Collective (and increasingly Awakening) American Mind at the advent of a new American Golden Age.
Now … think of everything you thought you knew about Xi Jinping and modern China, and think of which vultures sold the stories to you.
But then, didn’t I imply there were ‘Two Chinas?’
China benefits from all of this too. Not the CCP’s corrupt class, but the people. Fewer iPhone factories with suicide nets. Fewer sweatshops making clothes for Western decadents. Xi’s “Tigers and Flies” campaign, if my information is correct, has already taken out over 10,000 corrupt insiders—generals, judges, party elites.
And of course, from a narrative warfare perspective, you have this ongoing back and forth “he loves me he loves me not” thing going between Trump and Xi:
Is Xi a legitimate villain, or one that only has to pretend to be so right now as the network of narratives coalesce inside the minds of a world propagandized by corrupt media and simply unable to digest difficult truths?
Is Xi more like Putin? Or is he more like, well, Xi as we’ve been taught him?
Does any of this sound familiar?
Trump was impeached, yes–but for asking questions about Ukraine, a story very much making crystal clear sense now six years later. He was arrested for exposing lies. He was hunted for refusing to play the globalist game.
This–all of this–is why tariffs aren’t just policy. They are both prophecy and proof from a future-turned-present that validates what he’s done and said in the past. They mark a return—not just to national strength, but to national clarity—a solidarity of mind that is the groundwork for true, lasting strength, the kind Thomas Jefferson warned us about: “Paper is poverty… it is only the ghost of money, and not money itself.”
He wasn’t being poetic. He was being prophetic. Jefferson knew that once you separate value from virtue—money from meaning—your civilization is on borrowed time.
Follow the Paper
Paper money–of both the literal and figurative kind–isn’t wealth. It’s leverage. It’s control. It’s theater.
I’ll never forget the student who asked me, “What is a dollar bill even worth? How is it worth the dollar we say it is? It’s just paper if there’s no backing.”
She was absolutely right. It’s all a house of cards.
And the fall is long past due.
Here are some of the recent narrative deployments from across the world:
**Added after publishing:
While the “news” is floating tariff deals with the EU and Vietnam—heck, even India and Zimbabwe are lining up to play ball—the State of Israel continues to take center stage, symbolized by Bibi Netanyahu’s second visit to the White House just yesterday.
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Do we think China is the only nation pressuring our politicians? What about the financing and how those politicians actually get so rich?
Who are behind the communists in China? Who were behind the communists in the Bolshevik Revolution? Who is behind communism in general?
Look deeper.
America’s economic policy has been hijacked not just by the obvious–communist tyrants or woke capitalists–but by a hidden priesthood of financial manipulators—many of whom sit quietly behind a foreign lobby, raking in billions and billions through foreign aid, weapons deals, and dual-citizenship handshakes.
Somebody is footing that bill.
Jefferson intuitively grasped one of the basic principles of free-market economics: In a free, open competitive market, people choose good stuff (food, machines, tools, etc.) over bad stuff, and so goods of superior quality and value push inferior products into oblivion. The only reason Americans today have such an inferior currency is political. Government legislation denies us the freedom to choose what to accept as money. Jefferson wrote, “I now deny [the federal government’s] power of making paper money or anything else a legal tender.” What a terrible price we have paid and will pay for legal-tender laws forcing us to accept mere paper as money.
It’s been done for centuries upon centuries. The overlords are families, bloodlines. They don’t just want our money. They want our silence. They want our soul. And they have their puppets everywhere making sure that happens while appearing to be our friends.
Tariffs? Those make too much noise. Much more noise than the quieter “income tax.” Tariffs put the burden back on foreign powers and off of us, the people just trying to live a peaceful life and raise our families. Tariffs break the cycle of American debt servitude and expose who’s really benefiting from the so-called “free trade” system.
Here’s a hint you already know: It’s not you and I.
So who exactly is footing this bill?
The answer to that one is most certainly you and I. You and I, the American tax-paying workers, are the financier of global stability, global power, global wealth. We’ve been taxed into oblivion so that foreign governments can get a discount, so a select few can rise to unfathomable wealth and power.
Jefferson warned, “I sincerely believe … that banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies; and that the principle of spending money to be paid by posterity in the name of funding is but swindling futurity on a large scale.” Today we see bankers getting richer and politicians more powerful by bankrupting our country.
Do we not remember Christ himself warning about this very evil over and over again in Scripture?
What happens if Trump reorients that system, that empire? If tariffs indeed replace the income tax? If the Treasury resumes its Constitutional function—according to the true Constitution?
Foreign influence collapses. Foreign grip loosens. Foreign enslavement and its chains are shattered.
Trump’s tariff war isn’t just economic strategy—it’s an exorcism. A casting out of the financial demons who’ve enslaved generations of Americans under the illusion of prosperity. This is the historical context of why Christ went through the Temple with a whip. It was a very directed evil being committed that has been whitewashed under the generality of “sin.”
Christ was pissed off about a very specific thing—and that very same thing is alive and well today.
Paper money. Credit scores. Ballooning interest payments–all created and sustained by the same deep state cabal that lobbies both sides of the aisle, sends billions to our supposed allies, and silences anyone who dares to question why. This is not about antisemitism or any other variety of racism or xenophobia. This is about sovereignty—and this tariff narrative deployment is not at all unlike any direction Trump has ever galvanized.
Of course there will be a few twists and turns, sparks and sputters, on the way there.
Heck everything has moved all over the place in just the short time since I began drafting this article yesterday.
Continue to Part Two here.
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May everyone named directly or referenced indirectly ask forgiveness and do penance for their sins against America and God. I fight this information war in the spirit of justice and love for the innocent, but I have been reminded of the need for mercy and prayers for our enemies. I am a sinner in need of redemption as well after all, for my sins are many. In the words of Jesus Christ himself, Lord forgive us all, for we know not what we do.
