Queeg Never Had Lackeys

Hassett: "The only thing is that we're gonna see a lot of whining from left-wing critics of the president about the fourth quarter, because our estimate is the shutdown cost more than we expected at the beginning ... we think the economic effect might be to cut economic growth… pic.twitter.com/a16xq4XXFu

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) November 23, 2025

But the Administration is not going to tell people how they feel.

WELKER: Inflation has gone up. It's at 3% now up from 2% in April when the tariffs were imposed--

BESSENT: No, no no no. So, inflation hasn't gone up. The one thing we're not gonna do is do what the Biden administration did and tell the American people they don't know how they… pic.twitter.com/pJR6UCOlEj

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) November 23, 2025

And that tariffs are inflationary:

WELKER: If tariffs help consumers, why is the administration rolling them back?

BESSENT: You know how much you weigh. You get on the scale every morning. Inflation is a composite number and we look at everything. We try to push down the things we can control. pic.twitter.com/7p33t65pr6

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) November 23, 2025

Except that tariffs milct foreign countries (which are apparently all socialist governments who control the means of production):

Trump: Despite the massive amount of money being made by the United States of America, Hundreds of Billions of Dollars, as a direct result of Tariffs being charged to other countries, the full benefit of the Tariffs has not yet been calculated in that many of the buyers of goods… pic.twitter.com/o5h9DOs1Tp

— Acyn (@Acyn) November 24, 2025

Trump: Despite the massive amount of money being made by the United States of America, Hundreds of Billions of Dollars, as a direct result of Tariffs being charged to other countries, the full benefit of the Tariffs has not yet been calculated in that many of the buyers of goods and products, in order to avoid paying the Tariffs in the short term, "STOCK UP" by purchasing far more inventory than they can use in order to avoid Tariff payments in the short term.

That heavy inventory purchase is now, however, wearing thin, and soon Tariffs will be paid on everything they apply to, without avoidance, and the amounts payable to the USA will SKYROCKET, over and above the already historic levels of dollars received. These payments will be RECORD SETTING, and put our Nation on a new and unprecedented course.

Who are “they” in that scenario? Who are the ones stockpiling goods in order to avoid paying tariffs? Foreign producers? Stockpiling where? Who is making this “heavy inventory purchase” except domestic retailers? And if they are somehow trying to avoid tariffs (a perfectly reasonable thing to do) because it will raise costs, doesn’t that mean Americans are paying the tariffs, not foreign countries (which, again, somehow all own the means of production)?

Or is it in the strawberries that Trump has them, which he has proven with geometric logic?