In this bittersweet finale, Annette Bybee reflects on her journey with ‘Annette on America,’ sharing insights from three and a half years of broadcasting. As she bids farewell to the Denver airwaves, Annette looks back at memorable interviews, her transition from a podcast about singles to political discourse, and the many lessons learned along the way. This episode encapsulates her decision to step away from radio to pursue new creative endeavors while continuing her mission to discuss freedom, politics, and the American experience. Annette also delves into a thorough discussion on tariffs and international trade, scrutinizing President Trump’s economic
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Welcome to Annette on America, hosted by Annette Bybee, God-fearing, freedom-loving mother, college professor, lawyer, talking to you about all things freedom, all things America.
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Welcome to Annette on America. This is Annette Bybee, single mom to three teenage girls, lawyer, college professor for now. And this is the 183rd weekly episode of Annette on America and the final episode, at least in this iteration. I have decided to shift gears and stop doing radio and start doing some other stuff. Um, this is the 183rd episode and I’ve been doing it weekly. So you do the math. It’s about three and a half years or around there. And, um, it’s been a great ride. I’ve really appreciated this opportunity. Um, this show airs live in Denver, the Denver area. And then I put it onto a podcast podcast. providers, but it’s mostly geared towards Denver. And as any of my longtime listeners know, I have moved to Southern Utah and I’ve been here for about 10 months now. So starting to feel a little disconnected to Denver, which I’m actually surprised that I went this long before I decided to switch gears. But it’s just been so great and I’ve always enjoyed doing this. And so it’s been a hard decision, but I continue to feel pulled in the direction to do something different. And if there’s anything I’ve learned is that when something pulls at you again and again, You really need to listen to that thing. And so here I am wrapping up this show this week. And I want to thank Crawford Broadcasting for giving me this opportunity. You know, it’s funny because this whole thing started with me writing a book with a friend of mine back, I want to say 2019. We wrote a book on dating after divorce. And someone said, hey, you know, you should really advertise that by doing a podcast. And I was like, a whatty? I didn’t know what a podcast really was. And so I did some research. And found out what it was. And he and I decided to do that. So we started a singles podcast where we just talked about the book. That’s the way it started. And then it turned into a regular weekly show where we had single guests on in the Denver area. It was actually… Pretty cool, because what we would do is we would just sit around my kitchen table and record on my phone. Surprisingly, the sound quality was pretty good. I was… Yeah, that was stunning to me, because we didn’t have microphones or a mixer or anything, just… my phone sitting in the middle of the table. And we talked for, I think, 51 episodes. I don’t know how I didn’t make it to 52 for an even year. But we did this podcast for almost a year, covered so many topics, and it was great. I really enjoyed it. But by the end of that year, I was just tired of talking about being single. And so I prayed about it. And I said, hey, Heavenly Father, I want to talk about something besides being single. And I’ve always loved talk radio, and I’ve always loved politics. Well, love-hate relationship with politics. And so I got the green light to shift gears and talk about politics. So… I started a political podcast, Annette, on life, liberty and happiness. And then I just decided that I wanted to try and get on the radio somehow. And so it was one of those weird crossroads in life, you know, where I was been raising kids and working part time and and decided I wanted to pursue a broadcasting dream that I’ve had. And so a friend of mine told me, hey, just go and apply to different radio stations in the area, see what they’re hiring for. And he helped me with my resume. So shout out to Kevin for helping me with that. He made took my resume out of the last century, brought it into this one. And I saw that there was a job opening over at AM 560. And it was something that I wasn’t really qualified for, but I thought it’ll get my foot in the door and I can maybe get on the air once in a while. And so I sent over my resume and I got an interview pretty quickly. And so first I went and talked to the station manager in person and he was a great guy. I love that guy. And then um he said well let’s do a a zoom interview with some of the higher ups so we did and it was funny because i don’t know if you’ve ever done a zoom interview where you’re talking to like it was either three or four people at once and so you can see their reactions on the screen in real time right we’re a job interview where you’re sitting in a group and You have to look from person to person so you can’t always see what everybody’s thinking at the same time if it’s a group interview. But on Zoom, you can see them all at the same time. And so when we were talking about the job and they asked me a question, I don’t even remember what the question was or what my answer was, but I could see on their faces that they were like, eh, not so much. It’s like, oh, okay. I’m not getting that job. And then one of the individuals just asked me to talk about my life since high school. You know, I’m 56, so it’s a long time, but I gave him about a 10 minute rundown. And as I was telling them my story, I could see their faces change. And they went from kind of perplexed and not impressed to interested and engaged. And So I didn’t know what to make of that, but I thought, I’m not getting the job. But it was fun talking about my life since high school. I’m a talker. I’m a blabber. That’s why I’m doing this. I like to talk. And so anyway, like a week goes by. And the station manager calls me and I’ll never forget because I’m driving down the road, leaving, I think the chiropractor. I can remember the road and I can remember the call. And because he had left a message when I was in my appointment and I get out and I listened to this voicemail and he says, hey, you know, we didn’t really like you for the job. But I thought, shocker. He said, but we would really like you to have a radio show. We liked what you had to say. That works. That’s about three and a half years ago. And the show started out very podcasty because that’s what I was used to doing. And the station manager said, you know, you’re doing a good job, but why don’t you try and make it a little more radio oriented? And so it’s switched, over time it’s evolved from being podcasty to more radio, to still some podcast in there because I love podcasts, I love that medium. It’s a lot of fun, I love interviewing people and having long conversations about things. So I love that, but I also love talk radio. I grew up, well, I was probably 18 when I started listening to Rush and I listened to him until he died. I wasn’t as huge of a fan at the end because I thought he was really too much into Trump. But I learned a lot from listening to Rush and then later Glenn Beck. I still listen to him on the regular, as they say. But I could see my show evolving over time, and I still feel like I have a lot to learn. I think probably the biggest learning experience for me was when I was in the studio recording live, and I had a producer in the booth, right? And so trying to talk to the producer as I’m doing it live, because there’s no do-overs when you’re live, right? You just have to keep going with it. One of my favorite memories, well, I don’t know if it’s favorite, but one of my, no, I’ll go with my favorite first. Probably my favorite memory was when I had the candidate, the libertarian gubernatorial candidate for Colorado come in, and he was a hoot. I mean, he was a great guy. I had him on later when I wasn’t live anymore, but in the studio, sitting there with our headphones on, and I made some comment that was kind of offhand, and he just thought it was hilarious, and he pushed back from the desk and was just laughing so hard. I’ll never forget that either. I think… in the studio live really is a great way to do it. It’s a lot more nerve wracking because you don’t know what’s gonna go wrong. There were times when the signal stopped working, something happened and we were no longer broadcasting live. And then there was another time when I had another guest in, Joe the cop, Good looking guy. I’m going to confess now. Had a little crush on him back in the day. And sitting next to him and talking about the stories that we were talking about and trying to be just objective and not thinking about this. This is a hottie cop sitting next to me. Yeah, I don’t think he listens to the show anymore. But if he does, hey, Joe, I thought you were a hottie. And now I live in another state now. Yeah. So whatever. What else? There are so many great memories over the years of doing this. I had a lot of fabulous guests and I didn’t know I was going to do this walk down memory lane. I never really know 100% what I’m going to say when I come on, which is one of the things that I like about radio and podcasting is just to not be too scripted, but to just kind of go where… sometimes the spirit, and sometimes just where the material takes me. But another interesting… I had another candidate on at one point, and I asked her… if she was gonna stop doing, one of the things that I couldn’t stand about Polis when I was in Colorado was that he would do these press conferences and he would speak in English and then he would speak in Spanish. And that always bothered me because we’re not in Mexico. And to me, it felt like he was pandering and showing off that he could speak Spanish. And that always annoyed me, especially during COVID. You know, we were all trapped at home. Well, some of us didn’t stay at home, if you know what I mean. But it was kind of like a double slap in the face to listen to his press conferences where he called people out for not wearing masks in public and then would do it in Spanish. And so I had another gubernatorial candidate on and I kind of joked with her and I said, I hope you’re not going to do your press conferences in Spanish. And she’s like, and I don’t remember what she said, but… I later got a call on my way home from the studio from her campaign manager. Oh, please don’t air that part. Oh, well, we don’t really like that part. It’s live radio. OK, you get what you get and you don’t get upset. Obviously, she didn’t win. Polis, you know, Colorado’s more blue than red, which is sad. One of the reasons why I moved, because that that state’s not going in a good direction politically. Which is a bummer. I do miss Colorado. It was very green, very beautiful, a lot of great people, a lot of good conservative activity going on there. But it’s just overwhelmed by the Democrats. And I don’t think that state’s going to come back, sadly. And I just couldn’t raise my kids well. in a state anymore where I had to do battle with middle school administrators over the pride flag stuff in the yearbook. If you’ve listened to me for a while, you know that that’s one of the things that really bothered me. My middle school student came home and she was in the seventh grade then and I was looking through her yearbook that we overpaid for. Yearbooks are ridiculous, aren’t they? But there was a two page spread in the middle Of all the different various pride flags. I didn’t know there were so many. There were like 10. And they explained them in detail what they mean. And it’s like, how does that have a part in middle school education? And when I would go to the school, because I used to be in the schools and I would go in there to do things either to sub or to, you know, be… attend a daughter’s event and everywhere you go almost every classroom had the ally stickers and rainbow flags and that just it was just too much you know and then i would go over to the high school where my daughter was and go into the the room and she was a special needs kid and go into a special needs room and see the gay flag the pride flag up on the wall it doesn’t have any place in the schools So I just, that was one of the reasons. And when I had the opportunity to move out to Southern Utah, I looked at that and I said, I don’t think I’m going to have that problem over there. And lo and behold, I haven’t. It’s been kind of funny. When we first moved out here and I walked into those schools, it was BYU everywhere. I could see if you were not a member of the church, you’d probably be not thrilled about it, but works for me. Anyway, it’s been great and I’ve learned so much and I’ve had a lot of great guests. I feel like there were some shows that were better than others, like Life, right? But some of my favorite guests were ones that we talked about prepping together. We talked about how China owns Hollywood. I had Dinesh D’Souza on a few times. He’s probably my biggest guest. There were just a lot of great moments and a lot of content that I feel proud of. And so if you have any curiosity to see any of the previous or listen to any of the previous 182 episodes, you can find them all at AnnetteTalks.com. YouTube, Rumble, Spotify, blah, blah, blah. And I’m not going away from podcasting. I’m just stopping this radio show and I’ve decided that I’m going to take a break for a little while because I’ve been super duper busy. I’ve also been teaching for BYU-Idaho online for the last 10 years, and this is my last week of that, too. So I’m ending a few chapters. It’s one of those, I don’t know why things happen the way they do, and I’m guessing I’ll have some more clarity and information on that in the coming months. But it just felt like it was time to end both of those things. And Part of the reason is that my youngest child is going to be starting high school next year. So I have about four years to make sure that she has everything she needs to start her life after high school. And my other two, you know, I have a year left. I’m my oldest. I try really hard with her. I don’t know if it’s going to make much of a difference. And then my second child, she’s going to be a junior. So things are starting to wrap up pretty quickly with these three teenage girls. It’s gone by a lot faster than I thought it would. And so I feel like, especially as a single mom, I need to spend more time focusing on them and less time grading papers. Because the last 14 weeks have just been paper grading every night. And I feel like I’m done. But anyway, as far as broadcasting goes… If you want to continue to follow me, I’m going to be doing some experimenting with Facebook Reels. I refuse to get on TikTok, like I mentioned last week, but Facebook Reels are very similar. You can do very short up to a little bit longer, but it’s video. and you can do all sorts of cool stuff right there on your phone i discovered that this week i should have known before but my daughter kind of said oh yeah you could do it right here and she showed me like you can lay tracks on your phone no idea um also um youtube shorts same thing um i’m also going to do some facebook live some youtube live And I may end up just doing a YouTube show on my YouTube channel. I have a YouTube channel. So if you want to keep following me, I suggest you subscribe to my YouTube channel. Just go YouTube Annette Talks. Also, if you want to follow me on Facebook, you can find me there, Annette Bybee and Rumble. And you’ll check out my annettetalks.com website. I’ll be posting stuff there as well. I’m not exactly sure where this is all going to land. But I’m going to do some experimentation. And when I come back and do all these other things, probably going to be talking a little bit more about Southern Utah and national stuff, but probably not so much about Colorado, except for when big stories come up. Because, like I said, I’m just feeling a little disconnected since I’m not there anymore. So it seems more important and makes more sense for me to talk about where I’m living. And I also… feel like we’re, I really feel like we’re heading into the second coming and I could be completely wrong, but, um, if I’m not, I would rather err on the side of being wrong and being prepared then. not being wrong and not being prepared. So what I’m saying is I feel like it’s going to be in the next, my guess still is April 6th, 2028. It’s just fun. Like really, it’s not like I’m putting money on that. It’s just fun to have a date and on a calendar and then watch what happens, right? If it’s sooner than that, I’m thrilled. If it’s later than that, fine. But I would like to focus some of my material on helping people prepare spiritually, mentally, physically for the second coming, because it’s better to be prepared and then not have it happen yet than to not be prepared, like the parable of the ten virgins. And that was talked about a lot at my church’s last general conference. I think there were five talks that referenced it. That’s a record. Nine talks that talked about the second coming. Again, another record. So I feel like we’re being urged to prepare. Whether that means the second coming is soon, I don’t know. But I would rather bet that it is. Anyway, now that I’ve spent 20 minutes reminiscing and letting you know where I’m at, let’s talk tariffs. Because this has been going on for a while, but I finally found a big article that is up to date and explores this whole tariff thing. I have to tell you up front, I’m not a big fan of tariffs. I’m a fan of free trade. So I’m a little concerned to see what’s going to happen. But… Let’s dive into tariffs and then don’t leave. If you get bored with tariffs, don’t leave because I’m going to talk about the left and the crazy rallies that have been going on. All right. So here we go. It’s time for tariff talk. All right. Trump’s shock and awe tariff strategy. Let’s start with a Thomas Jefferson quote. I think all the world would gain by setting commerce at perfect liberty. That’s kind of how I feel. Free trade. Now I’m going to go off on this tangent a little bit. If there were zero tariffs everywhere, nobody had a tariff anywhere, everyone could just produce what they produce the best and send it to people that need it. And then I think it would be all wonderful. OK, that would be the best. Let’s talk about reality now. Do you recall that one of President Donald Trump’s day one executive orders was restoring names that honor American greatness? This included reinstating the name Mount McKinley to the highest peak in North America, Alaska’s Denali. In 2015, 40 years after the state of Alaska had restored the mountain’s native name, the Department of the Interior did the same. Though nobody in Alaska wanted the name restored to McKinley, why did Trump include this among his first actions? Well… Trump admires McKinley because of his Tariff Act of 1890, intended to protect domestic markets and workers by leveraging an average duty increase on imports from 38% to almost 50%. McKinley would later revise his stance and advocate for more tariff-free international trade, which is not inconsistent with what Trump ultimately seeks. a level playing field. Thus, Trump has ordered tariffs on imported goods from every country that imposes tariffs and or other trade barriers on U.S. exports and some that don’t. If you are fortunate enough to have accumulated some investments or retirement assets, you lucky dogs, the prospect of tariffs has taken a heavy toll on equity values for the moment. As of the close yesterday, the Dow was down 11.51% year-to-date. For comparison, it was up 18% in 2024. The S&P was down 14.94% year-to-date, and the Nasdaq Composite was down 19.08% year-to-date. Meanwhile, the 10-year Treasury yields were back above 4%. Investor pro tip, don’t get swept up in the short-term market hysterics because, yes, I just saw a story. Obviously, this was written last night. And what’s the story today? Wall Street sees record rally after Trump announces 90-day pause on most tariffs and raises China rate to 125%. So up, down, up, down. Don’t go crazy about these ups and downs. All right, let’s keep going. So today, expect major equity market recoveries because after firing a loud shot across the bow of those subjected to last night’s global implementation of his tariffs, Trump has proven once again that the strategic art of the deal often depends on being unpredictable. The art of organized chaos. For weeks, Trump stood firm on his tariffs and levies, which he characterized as a beautiful thing to behold. He declared, we have massive financial deficits with China, the European Union, and many others. The only way this problem can be cured is with tariffs, which are now bringing tens of billions of dollars into the U.S. They are already in effect and a beautiful thing to behold. The surplus with these countries has grown during the presidency of sleepy Joe Biden. we are going to reverse it and reverse it quickly someday people will realize that tariffs for the united states of america are a very beautiful thing tariffs biggest trump’s biggest tariff target say that three times fast is of course red china our largest trading partner after mexico and canada china’s communist leaders promised to fight to the end against the tariffs slapped that tariffs slapped an additional 34% tax on all U.S. imports last Friday. In turn, Trump implemented 100% plus tariffs on China and the latter then matched the tariff increase. Remember, if you will, that five years ago, China dropped the most devastating economic bomb ever detonated on the planet, the QICOM virus pandemic. So its reckless resolve should not be underestimated. At the same time, the National Economic Council Director and Treasury Secretary both report that more than 50 nations have reached out to the White House to negotiate, and I suspect the number is substantially higher. In other words, Trump’s tariffs are having the desired effect, except with China. Now Trump has dramatically altered his 12 hour old tariffs declaring, based on the lack of respect that China has shown to the world markets, I am hereby raising the tariff charge to China by the United States of America to 125% effective immediately. At some point, hopefully in the near future, China will realize that the days of ripping off the USA and other countries is no longer sustainable or acceptable. Moreover, he declared, conversely, and based on the fact that more than 75 countries have called representatives of the United States, including the Departments of Commerce, Treasury and the USTR, to negotiate a solution to the subjects being discussed relative to trade, trade barriers, tariffs, currency manipulation and non-monetary tariffs. and that these countries have not, at my strong suggestion, retaliated in any way, shape, or form against the United States, I have authorized a 90-day pause and a substantially lowered reciprocal tariff during this period of 10%, also effective immediately. Thank you for your attention to this matter. This is a wild ride, but frankly, while his vacillations drive his leftist adversaries bonkers and are distressing to more than just a few of his otherwise strong conservative supporters, I find Trump’s dynamic leadership invigorating, if not just refreshing. Clearly, as the Wall Street Journal editors note, Trump owns the economy now. He can’t point at the Biden-Harris regime for the consequences of his actions. But the Wall Street Journal editors still don’t seem to get Trump’s modus operandi, insisting trade wars are easy to start, but they can be hard to stop once the retaliation gets rolling. Mr. Trump started this war, and he owns whatever happens next to prices, jobs, and economic growth. The notion that Trump started this war is being parroted far and wide by the mainstream media and it is grossly misleading. The fact is we have been in a global trade war for 60 years and getting our butts kicked. Trump is the first US president in decades with the guts to fire back. However, in doing so, Trump is betting the near term future of the GOP on his emergency tariff plan, which is going to have near term implications on the livelihoods of all Americans. There are big pros and cons, and there has been no shortage of opinions regarding his so-called reciprocal tariffs. For the record, the tariffs are only in part reciprocal and many are calculated on a host of other factors that appear to be non sequiturs. Indicative of the range of tariff opinions, commentator David Harsanyai protested, Treasury Secretary Scott Besant cautioned last month that Americans will likely experience a detox period after President Trump implements his wide-ranging tariffs. What are we detoxing from exactly? From an abundance of affordable goods and the world’s highest living standards? from economic growth, from leading the world in nearly every possible innovation and quantifiable economic measure, from being an evolving manufacturing powerhouse, from enjoying an unprecedented per capita GDP or the low economic unemployment rates. The Trump administration suffers from Munchausen syndrome by tariff, prescribing toxic cures for mythical ailments to gain attention. Don’t hold any punches there. National Review’s Rich Lowry chastised Trump for dubiously claiming tariff authority under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act of 1977 in order to claim power to impose tariffs that would otherwise have to pass Congress. According to Lowry, this is an abuse of language and logic. in the service of bad policy that hardly interacts with the alleged threat to national security. In some, it’s best, especially when making consequential determinations, to adhere to the true meaning of words, even the much abused emergency. Likewise, N.R. Senior Political Analyst, that’s National Republic, Jim Garotti argues Peter Navarro, Kevin Hassat, Scott Besant, and Howard Lutnick all went out to the Sunday shows to make the case for sweeping new tariffs. We also got additional comments on social media from Elon Musk and Senator Mike Lee. All of them made the case for the president’s decision. The only catch is that most of their arguments contradicted each other. All right, so I’ve got to take a break. I will come back and finish this discussion on tariffs.
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Annette Bybee back here with Annette on America, and we were talking tariffs. And we were talking about how a bunch of people from Trump’s camp went out and made pitches on the Sunday shows for tariffs, but they were making arguments that contradicted each other. And the tensions have resulted in disputes among key advisers, with Navarro asserting that Musk was just a car assembler who wants the cheap foreign parts. In response, Musk said Navarro is truly a moron and dumber than a sack of bricks. Musk also broke with Trump, saying he wants a zero tariff situation between the United States and Europe. Even Senator John Kennedy cautions in his southern drawl, a little whiskey under the right circumstances can be refreshing. Too much whiskey under the wrong circumstances and you end up drunk as a goat. We just don’t know right now, but we’ll know within the next six months. If it works, let’s take a dozen. If it doesn’t work, the president will have to recalibrate. I have no idea how close that is, Senator Kennedy. For those who better understand Trump’s global negotiating strategy, we know this is a multi-dimensional chess match, not the checkers game that too many pundits and media talking heads would have you believe. See, this is why I have a hard time with this, because I’m not a chess player. I’m more of a checkers. King me, king me. Conservator commentator Eric Erickson warned yesterday, China has begun dumping U.S. Treasury bonds, which has the effect of making the bond yield go up, thereby negating some of Besant’s ability to deal with the national debt and interest payments. I am not sure what Eric was expecting from China, but these are just the first moves in what Trump at all know will be a lengthy and complex battle. At the moment, China has some economic leverage to fire back accumulated since the Clinton years, but the Chai comms also have economic and political vulnerabilities that will not easily absorb further economic slowdown. I put much more weight on seasoned analysts and regarding China and tariffs. That would be Victor Davis Hanson, senior fellow at the Hoover Institution. In a thorough analysis called Trump’s Just Trade War, Hanson says, Ignore the Wall Street hysteria. The president is trying to end a 50-year injustice directed at the U.S. and to help the most overlooked Americans. He concludes, at some point soon, the less frenzied will look at stock bargains, remember the surging market during 2017 to 2021, conclude that the resistance to symmetrical trade abroad is more media and politically driven than rational, and thus that the future will not end in depression, but more likely prosperity by too long ignored and delayed solutions to unfair trade imbalances, reckless budget deficits, and unsustainable national debt. On its face, an incremental approach to reciprocal tariff penalties looks more reasonable. But predictably, Trump has chosen the shock and awe full frontal assault. No doubt that shock and awe was necessary in order to get the countries to the negotiation table quickly, and none want to be the last to be seated at that table. See, this is just Trump doing deals. This is what Trump does. Tariff shock and awe is a classic example of Trump’s organized chaos strategy. And on that note, I offer a few of my own observations about the current tariff hysterics. First, those of us who supported Trump’s return to office understood that, as I noted in Trump 2.0 attack of the disruptors, one of Trump’s specialties is organized chaos. Most people are deeply threatened by what appears to be disorganized chaos. And evidence that has eroded public support for Trump is now emerging in his RCP job approval average, showing a four point decline since he took office from 51.5% to 47.5% and a rise in his disapproval from 43 to 47%. The administration has done a poor job of rallying broad public support. This is called war, but Trump has not adequately explained the sacrifices necessary for the war effort. He has not rallied Americans and imbued them with an understanding that we all have to do our part to win this war. And in failing to do so, our adversaries, both the Democrats and Chinese, are emboldened. Last weekend, Trump’s message to the nation was, this is an economic revolution and we will win. Hang tough, it won’t be easy, but the end result will be historic. We will make America great again. That should be the unified message from every administration official and Republican across the board. Trump’s approach has given the opposition ammunition for a short-term tactical fight. But in the long run, when he gets to the finish line with his tariff strategy, the trade reset will be good for America and will alter our disastrous course toward complete insolvency. Let’s hope that’s true. Second, there is the tariff tax issue. I have argued a thousand times over the years that the Democrat obsession with taxing corporations is tantamount to a tax on consumers because corporations pass that tax burden on in the form of increased product prices. Trump has lauded all the tariff revenue that our nation could collect as if most of that revenue is not going to roughly equate to price inflation paid by consumers. In effect, the current tariffs, if not renegotiated, will result in a historic tax increase. As Warren Buffett makes clear about who ultimately pays for tariffs, over time, they are taxed on goods. I mean, the truth fairy doesn’t pay them. However, many of the assertions above assume a tariff status quo that as Trump implements tariffs, other nations up their own tariffs and the American consumers are the losers. That is a bad assumption. In the coming weeks, there will be substantial negotiations on tariffs being levied by other nations on US goods. And then those negotiations may, best case scenario, have a cascading effect that substantially levels the economic field, bringing free trade and fair trade into greater parity. A colleague notes that the evidence supporting why foreign nations will come to Trump’s negotiation table and that is reflected in the respective investment indexes of our foreign trade partner. He says. The phrase, a rising tide lifts all boats, is famously attributed to John F. Kennedy. He used the aphorism in 1963 to argue that economic growth benefits everyone, citing it as a defense for projects and policies that aimed to stimulate broad economic development. likely the contrapositive is also true. A falling tide lowers all boats, as can be seen with the stock market’s reaction to tariffs imposed by the Trump administration this week. What can also be seen is that the tide has gone out faster in some places than in others. Fact is, foreign markets were disproportionately affected by fears of economic instability stemming from Trump’s tariffs, particularly in Asia and Europe. That is the direct consequence of Trump’s shock and awe strategy, and those foreign markets are paying attention, and by extension, so are their leaders. This is more than just getting countries to the negotiation table quickly. These countries are finding the water rushing from their safe harbors and their boats foundering in the shallows. Again, a falling tide lowers all boats and their boats may soon be grounded. Finally, one of the greatest threats to the success of Trump’s economic trade plan is not the trade war, but the Democrat Party’s war on Trump. In effect, they are CHICOM leader Xi Jinping’s closest ally. Most Democrats are hoping that Trump’s plan will fail, which will provide them a political windfall. And in the process, our foreign trade adversaries know the demos are on their side. Recall that Trump’s Democrats seeded the 2008 financial crisis to enhance their political fortunes. They implemented policies that created a crisis of confidence in our economy and thereby paved a path for Barack Obama’s election. Demos are expert at undermining confidence and they are laying the groundwork for another economic crisis of confidence right now. If Trump’s tariff strategy is even moderately successful, his domestic political opponents will be exposed as the fools they are. So that’s a really long way of saying Trump’s doing, he’s got a plan and it should work. And the Democrats are hoping that it won’t, which tells you everything you need to know about Democrats. But let’s see what happens with this shock and awe. Already again today, we had the record, the Wall Street rallying, because Trump paused the tariffs. So we just talked about the fact that the Democrats are freaking out and throwing hissy fits. It’s interesting when you go on social media, and I spend a lot of time on Facebook, And you see all these huge rallies going on, but the interest, a couple of things about those rallies, and I’m gonna get into it here, but a couple of things that I’ve noticed just from going on Facebook is that, first of all, most of them have no clue what they’re rallying against, what they’re protesting. They have no clue. Secondly, there are a lot of freaks with rainbow colored hair and lots of pronouns. Let’s just put it that way. And there’s a lot of astroturf because Trump’s been doing things like stopping USAID. There’s millions, if not billions, being lost in this money laundering going towards some people who have deep pockets. They don’t like it. And so they’re paying people to get out there and rally. All right, so let’s take a look at some of these protests. If you happen to be downtown Saturday afternoon, you likely saw, quote unquote, democracy in action. It wasn’t a pretty sight. All across the country at more than 1,200 protests organized by Democrat activists. See, that’s not grassroots. You saw the angry, aging, Trump deranged representatives of an out of power political party who’s standing with the American people has never been lower. And you saw them protesting what exactly? Hands off, they cried. But when asked specifically about what this violation entailed, they weren’t terribly specific. Only that Donald Trump and Elon Musk were the gropers. And I talked last week about why these folks hate Elon Musk even more than Trump. So go listen to my last week’s episode, 182, if you haven’t. Hands off our national debt, which is now approaching an unfathomable $37 trillion. Hands off a federal government that has become increasingly bloated and unaccountable to the American people. Hands off those poor, misunderstood MS-13 and Tren de Aragua rapists and murderers from whom Joe Biden invited into our country and whom Donald Trump is trying to return from whence they came. They’re taking everything they can get their hands on, the organizers said beforehand. Our healthcare, our data, our jobs, our services, and daring the world to stop them. This is a crisis, and the time to act is now. Their health care? It is interesting that these agitators think the time to act is now rather than, oh, say, four years ago. Remember, these are the same people who uttered not a peep when, as left-leaning journos Jonathan Allen and Amy Parnas now confess… Biden’s aides were leading him around with fluorescent tape on the floor at private residences, setting up his teleprompter even for throwaway remarks to small groups and calling in the makeup artist to make him look less corpse-like for one-to-one meetings with foreign dignitaries. Isn’t it funny how we all knew He was going downhill fast. But these journalists who knew it also would say nothing. And they let him go into that dumpster fire of a debate that was just sickening. I can remember watching that thing and just feeling sick to my stomach. that this display of weakness was there for the whole world to see. We are lucky that we weren’t attacked after that happened. I mean, just sickening in that that man was put up there and propped up like that by his wife and by all those around him. It was just, it was disgusting. It’s hard to decide what was the scarier and more outrageous prospect, that a clearly dementing commander in chief was in charge of our nation’s finances and its nuclear arsenal, or that some anonymous and unelected staffers were calling the shots instead. Saturday, though, the more family-friendly signs calling for locking up Trump and deporting Doge director Elon Musk and disappearing hog man Donald Trump’s border czar for the apparent crime of enforcing our nation’s immigration laws. We will not be silenced, railed an indignant union boss, Everett B. Kelly, president of the American Federation of Government Employees, which should tell you everything right there. We will not bow down. We’ll stand up and say, hands off our union. We’ll stand up and say, hands off our contract. We’ll stand up and say, hands off our democracy. Hands off our freedom. Okay, there shouldn’t even, first of all, there shouldn’t even be a federal employee union. Here we should draw a distinction between the private sector unions whom Trump is bent on helping with his reciprocal tariffs and the bloated and utterly unaccountable public sector unions who sit on both sides of the collective bargaining table and stick the American taxpayer with the bill. some of the demagoguery fell back on the old standards, the usual suspects, such as the GOP’s desire to abolish Social Security. No serious person believes this, of course, but no one ever accused these Trump-deranged Democrats of being serious people. When asked about these tired old calumnies, the White House communications team told the appropriated press, President Trump’s position is clear. He will always protect Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid for eligible beneficiaries. Meanwhile, the Democrat stance is giving Social Security, Medicaid, and Medicare benefits to illegal aliens, which will bankrupt these programs and crush American seniors. As for those downtrodden Democrats, what are their solutions? Answer, they have no solutions, only disingenuous and historically amnesiac attacks. As Victor Davis Hanson put it recently, on matters of trade, immigration, and foreign policy, we are witnessing a counter-revolutionary effort to erase the madness of the Biden revolutionary years. then unnamed and largely unknown radicals under the veneer of a waxen effigy president, hijacked the country and imposed upon it the most radical and nihilist agenda in the past century. Remember, we were supposed to be managing the decline, according to Obama. Meanwhile, this increasingly aging Democrat Party continues to thrash about and do self-harm as it polls at depths never before plumbed. A recent CNN poll has the once-proud party’s favorability at 29%, while an NBC News poll has it at 27%. But yes, by all means, let’s lock up Donald Trump. So I think Trump has a messaging problem like I mentioned in the last article. He needs to hold a press conference and explain his tariff strategy and explain what he’s doing. So let’s see, I only have, my last radio show in Denver is winding down. So I only have a few stories that I can share now So let’s make it count. AOC, speaking of these rallies, AOC flies first class to Bernie Sanders fight oligarchy rallies as critics pan lefty poll for battling inequality one mimosa at a time. Socialist AOC was photographed flying first class because of course these people never walk the walk. They just talk the talk. flying first class to a Bernie Sanders event last month with critics saying it shows how she battles inequality one mimosa at a time. An incredulous passenger snapped AOC getting comfy in the roomy first class cabin of JetBlue Flight 511 on March 19th that departed from JFK Airport in Queens for Las Vegas, where she spoke at a Sanders rally titled Fighting Oligarchy. The next day, the equality spouting darling of the far left rallied along with her socialist comrade, millionaire Senator Sanders from Vermont in North Vegas and at Arizona State University in Tempe. Nothing says power to the people like ignoring voters looking to say hello and reclining in first class while tweeting about income inequality. The flyer who took the photo told the Post, claiming that AOC did not respond to friendly comments once she sat down. That’s because you are the great unwashed. Don’t you know that? Come on. She’s a leading light of the Socialist Party. She’s too good for you people. She’s fighting oligarchy in first class, one mimosa at a time. So that was just too rich to pass up. And now I have to fly by these other 10 stories that I don’t have time to get to. because again, I’m wrapping up my final episode here. And as always, I’m going to wrap it up with a story from my favorite news source, Babylon Bee. Trump bangs gong, signaling another increase in China tariffs. The Global Trade Board reached a new level this morning as President Trump banged a giant gong to signal yet another increase in tariffs on goods being imported from China. White House sources said the president had ordered the gong to be present for all announcements related to the tariffs from now on, believing that the sound of striking it was the most surefire way to get China’s attention. did you hear that china trump said after swinging the mallet to bang the gong that’s the sound of american strength folks i could go on hitting the gong all day it’s a beautiful sound it’s the sound of our economy soaring to new heights and it’s also the sound you hear in a lot of those old kung fu movies you remember those bruce lee what a guy he was Administration insiders admitted that while the use of the gong may be construed as insensitive, it had already had a positive effect on negotiations. We got a call from President Xi within moments the first time the gong was hit, said one source. We were skeptical that it would help But it turned out that the president was right. He always seems to know just what card to play, even the slightly racist ones. At publishing time, the White House refused to comment on whether or not it had to pay an inflated price to import the large gong from China. Oh, I love you, Babylon Bee. I love that you’ve been there for me for 183 episodes of Annette on America, which if you’ve missed any of can find at annettetalks.com, iTunes, Stitcher, Spotify, YouTube, Rumble. You can even ask Alexa to play it. She always offers to play it for me every week. Just love that. One minute left in my final episode, and I just want to reiterate, thank you so much for listening. You’ve been a great audience. If you want to keep in touch, you can email me at Annette at AnnetteTalks.com. You can continue to follow me on Facebook. You can find me on Rumble. You can find me on YouTube. You can find me on my website, AnnetteTalks.com. You can probably see me on some reels and some YouTube shorts in the near future. So stay in touch. You’ve been a great audience. I’ve enjoyed interacting with you for these three and a half years. And again, thank you to Crawford Broadcasting for giving me this opportunity to broadcast Annette on America to Denver and to all my podcast listeners. It’s been a wonderful experience. Three and a half years and 183 episodes. I’m wrapping this one up. As always, thank you for listening to Annette on America, where freedom lovers gathered.
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