Speaker 1: Hi, everybody, Welcome to the Right Side with Doug Billings.
Speaker 1: Thanks for joining us. I appreciate you being out there. Wow,
Speaker 1: tariffs man. You never see so many liberals out on
Speaker 1: the ledge of intellectual immaturity in my life. I mean
Speaker 1: they are. It's absolute kookville the way these people are
Speaker 1: reacting to the tariffs. And I'm grateful to you because
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Speaker 1: truth and today the truth about tariffs. Uh. Coming to you,
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Speaker 1: Every single day. So you've heard all of the whining.
Speaker 1: I'm sure right. Tariffs are reckless, Tariffs are going to
Speaker 1: tank the economy, Tariffs are anti consumer. Trump doesn't know
Speaker 1: what he's doing. He's going to start a trade war.
Speaker 1: It's the same old playbook scare tactics and globalist garbage.
Speaker 1: They want you to be afraid, ladies and gentlemen, because
Speaker 1: when you're afraid, they believe liberals believe that you become
Speaker 1: more apt to depend upon big government. But here's the reality.
Speaker 1: Trump's tariffs are a masterstroke. They're about putting America first,
Speaker 1: about bringing jobs back, and they're about forcing the world,
Speaker 1: quite frankly, to play by our rules. That's what it's
Speaker 1: all about. The Hello, Deacon Jody, what's going on? How
Speaker 1: are you? Thanks? It's good to see you out there
Speaker 1: in in YouTube land. Thank you, Deacon Jody for being
Speaker 1: out there. I think that what we're gonna do is
Speaker 1: take a look today at the tariffs. The reason why
Speaker 1: many of you on the right side know some of this,
Speaker 1: but you might not and probably not have heard this
Speaker 1: in these kinds of words and in this language. It's
Speaker 1: a very simple idea. It's not complicated, and the radical
Speaker 1: left because of Trump derangement syndrome, because of intellectual immaturity,
Speaker 1: and because of blind partisanship, doesn't see it the way
Speaker 1: that we see it. But I want you to know
Speaker 1: that right now, the right Side with Doug Billings is
Speaker 1: upon you. Are you ready, ladies and gentlemen. I think
Speaker 1: it's time to get everybody.
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Speaker 1: Ladies and gentlemen. We are winning. We're winning, winning, winning.
Speaker 1: Welcome to the right side with Doug Billings. We are
Speaker 1: not liberal snowflakes who mild away in the face of transity, adversity,
Speaker 1: and challenge. We are a covenant nation under God and
Speaker 1: his divine Providence is not dead and it's not gone.
Speaker 1: It is living within each and every one of you,
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Speaker 1: back down, we never give up. We march forward. All right,
Speaker 1: there it is, ladies and gentlemen. Okay, So today tariffs,
Speaker 1: we're going to walk the radical liberal mob off the ledge,
Speaker 1: because that's what I do. If anything, I'm here to help,
Speaker 1: ladies and gentlemen. I'm here to help the liberals come
Speaker 1: into the room of reality, to see the truth, to
Speaker 1: understand the truth. And this is a topic that is
Speaker 1: not that difficult to understand. It's not that difficult to
Speaker 1: see why President Trump is invoking the tariffs against a
Speaker 1: world that has been non reciprocal in their approach to
Speaker 1: how they deal with us. And so America is no
Speaker 1: longer the proverbial doormat, if you will. So the truth
Speaker 1: really about these tariffs is that they are not at
Speaker 1: all the evil, destructive economic force that the radical left
Speaker 1: is telling you that they are. So tariffs hurt American consumers.
Speaker 1: This is what the radical left wants you to believe.
Speaker 1: You've heard it from the to balking heads on CNN.
Speaker 1: You've heard it from the Ivory Tower economists that say, oh,
Speaker 1: tariffs are going to raise our prices. The little guy
Speaker 1: is going to have to pay more when he goes
Speaker 1: to the store and buy a toaster. All that's what
Speaker 1: they want. They want to scare you fear. It's the
Speaker 1: driving motivator behind all of their policies, platforms, and politics.
Speaker 1: Look at what we experienced during the Biden years every
Speaker 1: one of their policies, chaos, crime, and crisis. That's what
Speaker 1: they want, and it begs the question why, because they
Speaker 1: want you to become dependent upon big government, therefore and
Speaker 1: thereby becoming dependent upon them and their liberal agenda. Everything
Speaker 1: they say is scary, but it's also bs. When Trump
Speaker 1: slapped tariffs, let's take a little trip back in time
Speaker 1: and remember this. When he slapped tariffs on steel and
Speaker 1: aluminum back in twenty eighteen, there was a twenty five
Speaker 1: percent tariff on steel and ten percent on aluminum. You
Speaker 1: remember your grocery bill skyrocketing back then. I'll tell you
Speaker 1: you don't, because it didn't. Did Walmart shut down? No?
Speaker 1: Now price is ticked up a bit one percent on
Speaker 1: some items, not everything, but one percent on some things.
Speaker 1: That was according to the Tax Foundation. But the sky
Speaker 1: ladies and gentlemen did not fall upon us. Why is that, because,
Speaker 1: as it turns out, American companies are brilliant and they
Speaker 1: can adapt. They found new suppliers, they ramped up their
Speaker 1: own domestic production, and guess what happened then, my friends,
Speaker 1: jobs came back. Steel jobs alone back in those days
Speaker 1: jumped by thousands. And these are real jobs, folks. These
Speaker 1: are not the head fry cook jobs at McDonald's. We're
Speaker 1: talking real, substantial, make a living jobs. The left ignores
Speaker 1: this because it goes against their sob story. And here's
Speaker 1: the kicker. The tariffs didn't just protect jobs. They sent
Speaker 1: a message around the world. China, Canada, the European Union.
Speaker 1: They all screamed bloody murder when it was going on
Speaker 1: and when it first happened, but you know what they did,
Speaker 1: They came to the table. Take Canada for example. You
Speaker 1: remember one of the poster men for the wussification of men,
Speaker 1: Justin Trudeau, the whussification of men across the planet. He's
Speaker 1: one of their poster boys. Or really he threw a
Speaker 1: fit over the steel tariffs back in twenty nineteen. He
Speaker 1: was but you know what else he did. He was
Speaker 1: soon at the table negotiating what's called the USMCA, which
Speaker 1: replaced NAFTA. That deal right there cut trade deficits and
Speaker 1: boosted American manufacturing more so than in any other time
Speaker 1: in modern history. Liberals will tell you another one of
Speaker 1: their mantras is tariffs isolate us, Doug. They're going to
Speaker 1: isolate us. We don't want to be alone. We won't
Speaker 1: we want to play with the of the world. Wrong.
Speaker 1: They don't isolate us, ladies and gentlemen. They simply make
Speaker 1: us the shot caller. We are able to call the
Speaker 1: shots when you've got the biggest economy in the world,
Speaker 1: Ladies and gentlemen, twenty eight trillion dollars gross domestic product
Speaker 1: that's of twenty twenty five, and you flex that kind
Speaker 1: of muscle. Other nations don't walk away from you. They
Speaker 1: make deals with you. Okay, So now here's another liberal
Speaker 1: whopper that's out there. Tariffs are gonna kill free trade.
Speaker 1: I can't even get through that without laughing. Free trade. Please.
Speaker 1: What we had before Trump came along was a one
Speaker 1: way street, them walking all over US China dump cheap
Speaker 1: stuff junk in our country. Mexico was siphoning our jobs.
Speaker 1: America was paying for it all. The US trade deficit
Speaker 1: hit eight hundred and fifty nine billion dollars in twenty
Speaker 1: twenty two, and that was before Trump's policies started to bite.
Speaker 1: His tariffs Now, remember think ten to twenty five percent
Speaker 1: on Chinese goods, forced to rethink in China. By twenty twenty,
Speaker 1: China's exports to United States dropped sixteen percent, and we
Speaker 1: started making stuff here in America again. Free trade is great,
Speaker 1: don't get me wrong. Free trade is awesome when it's
Speaker 1: fair trade. But when you're bleeding jobs to countries that
Speaker 1: cheat by subsidizing their own industries stealing our technology, tariffs
Speaker 1: are a wake up call, and Trump got that right. Anyone, folks,
Speaker 1: anyone within an a shred of intellectual maturity, gets this.
Speaker 1: They understand it. The left doesn't, or if they they do,
Speaker 1: they purposely misguide you just to further their own partisan agenda.
Speaker 1: And don't let them. Don't let them fool you with
Speaker 1: this other, this global harmony, Doug. We've got to get along.
Speaker 1: We have to get along with the rest of the people.
Speaker 1: The rest of the country is on this planet. Really,
Speaker 1: these are the same people who are molotov cocktailing Tesla
Speaker 1: dealerships across the country. These are the same people who
Speaker 1: cheered on Administrator Biden and Vice Pretender Harris when they
Speaker 1: ended the Keystone Xcel pipeline and handed energy dominance back
Speaker 1: over to Opak. Trump's tariffs, my friends, are not about
Speaker 1: starting fights. They're about winning. Anyone who denies this, anyone
Speaker 1: who's against this is either again intellectually immature, a blind partisan,
Speaker 1: or simply anti American. That's the only those are the
Speaker 1: only three options that are out there. Otherwise you're on board,
Speaker 1: you get it, you understand it. Pro America. We want
Speaker 1: to win, and when America wins, the rest of the
Speaker 1: world wins. Ladies and gentlemen, look at the numbers. US
Speaker 1: manufacturing added four hundred thousand jobs from twenty seventeen to
Speaker 1: twenty nineteen pre COVID thanks to President Trump's tariff policies. Now,
Speaker 1: liberals will cherry pick the downsides higher cost on some
Speaker 1: imports one percent, right, but ignore they always ignore the upside,
Speaker 1: which is this, American workers are clocking in to work.
Speaker 1: Factories are humming again and coming back to the United States.
Speaker 1: Communities are thriving. That's not a loss, folks. That's called
Speaker 1: a comeback. So why are tariff's a good idea? It's
Speaker 1: a simple answer. They put America first in a world
Speaker 1: that's been taking advantage of us for decades. I'll break
Speaker 1: it down for you. Make sure you share this with
Speaker 1: your liberal friend. They need our help. Number One, jobs,
Speaker 1: When you tariff foreign steel for washing machines like Trump
Speaker 1: did with South Korea in twenty eighteen, you make it
Speaker 1: cheaper to buy American products. Whirlpool and it added two
Speaker 1: hundred jobs in Ohio at a factory just because of
Speaker 1: the tariffs. Number two is leverage. We've got it. Tariffs
Speaker 1: are a negotiating hammer. I used to do this for
Speaker 1: a living when I was in Corporate America. I negotiated
Speaker 1: collective bargaining agreements against unions on behalf of corporations. And
Speaker 1: we use things like this for leverage. China has been
Speaker 1: ripping us off to the tune of three hundred billion
Speaker 1: dollars in ip theft ladies and gentlemen. That is absolutely
Speaker 1: crazy that we don't do anything about that. Trump's twenty
Speaker 1: five percent tariff on their goods in twenty nineteen, What
Speaker 1: did that do well. That got Xijing ping up at
Speaker 1: night sleepless to rethink his tariff strategy against the United States.
Speaker 1: They started buying more United States soy more United States pork.
Speaker 1: Fifty billion dollars were signed by China by twenty twenty,
Speaker 1: precisely because of the tariffs put in place by President Trump.
Speaker 1: Now I'm in Kansas right there, fifty billion dollars an
Speaker 1: agricultural deal signed. That's winning for Kansas. That's winning for
Speaker 1: farmers everywhere. And the third so we've got jobs leveraged.
Speaker 1: And now the third one is national security. You think
Speaker 1: it's smart, ladies and gentlemen, you think it's smart to
Speaker 1: rely on China for steel or computer chips or rare
Speaker 1: earth materials minerals. I don't tariffs force us to rebuild
Speaker 1: what we've lost. I mean again, look at aluminum. It's
Speaker 1: an easy example. Our production was dying down to seventy
Speaker 1: thousand tons by twenty seventeen, seventy thousand tons a year
Speaker 1: by twenty seventeen. Trump comes along and acts some tariffs
Speaker 1: and it kicked back up to one point one million
Speaker 1: tons by twenty twenty. That's not just economics, my friends,
Speaker 1: that is strength liberals call it protectionism, really protectionism. I
Speaker 1: call it survival. We've got to do this, and they
Speaker 1: always bring up the global market. So let's talk about
Speaker 1: the global market. Liberals will tell you that tariffs shrink
Speaker 1: our influence. Wrong again, they make us the king maker,
Speaker 1: ladies and gentlemen. When Trump hit the European Union with tariffs,
Speaker 1: they didn't boycott us. They bought more more American products,
Speaker 1: up to three hundred percent more from twenty sixteen to
Speaker 1: twenty twenty. Why is that? Because we're the market everybody wants.
Speaker 1: We have twenty trillion dollars in consumer spending power. Friends,
Speaker 1: Tariffs will tell other countries you want in, you want
Speaker 1: to play with us, all right, you got to play fair,
Speaker 1: that's all. That's all this is, And tariffs do that.
Speaker 1: Japan they cut tariffs on US beef after Trump threatened
Speaker 1: auto tariffs on them, and exports doubled by twenty twenty one.
Speaker 1: For US folks, this isn't losing. This is called dominating
Speaker 1: in a world where radical liberalism says we shouldn't be dominant,
Speaker 1: we should be wissified. I e. Tim Walls, Justin Trudeau,
Speaker 1: the poster men of wussification. You know, it's not losing,
Speaker 1: it's dominating, and we're back. America is back. That's American exceptionalism.
Speaker 1: It's not ego, it's not braggadocious. It's the truth. We
Speaker 1: have the largest economy. When our economy thrives, every one
Speaker 1: of these countries benefit. Rising tide lifts all ships. Right.
Speaker 1: Here's why the left really trips over itself and gets
Speaker 1: all tied up in knots because they claim that tariffs
Speaker 1: are gonna start. I wish I could play the Star
Speaker 1: Wars theme, trade wars. That's what they say. It's trade wars,
Speaker 1: ladies and gentlemen, and Trump is Darth Vader. Really, where
Speaker 1: is the war? Where is it? Because China has blinked,
Speaker 1: They've cut some of their own tariffs. They're gonna cut more.
Speaker 1: The European Union they grumbled a bit, but they're right
Speaker 1: now signing deals. Canada, Mexico. They didn't come and invade US.
Speaker 1: They joined USMCA after NAFTA was renegotiated or dumped. I
Speaker 1: should say, folks, tariffs do not burn bridges between company countries.
Speaker 1: Tariffs don't. They don't burn relationships. What tariffs do is
Speaker 1: that they build negotiating tables. Trump knows that other nations
Speaker 1: need us more than we need them. Our GDP's doubles
Speaker 1: China per capita, and it triples the European Union's average.
Speaker 1: We hold all the cards. Tariffs just remind other countries
Speaker 1: of that. All right, So let me let me take
Speaker 1: a minute and wrap up, because this is important. The
Speaker 1: next time you're at your cocktail party and a radical
Speaker 1: liberal confronts you about tariffs, you're now because of this show,
Speaker 1: fully armed with the facts. The liberal critique of President
Speaker 1: Trump's tariffs at tariffs is a house of cards, and
Speaker 1: it's built on fear, not facts. Prices don't soar, trade
Speaker 1: doesn't collapse, We're not at war, and America is not
Speaker 1: going to lose. What will happen is that jobs are
Speaker 1: going to come back. The nations who are grumbling are
Speaker 1: going to negotiate, and we're starting to win again. Tariffs
Speaker 1: are not perfect. Sure, some rare things and prices will
Speaker 1: go up, but the trade off is sovereignty. The trade
Speaker 1: off is security and a stronger middle class. The left
Speaker 1: wants us begging at the globalist trough for scraps, and
Speaker 1: Trump is saying, uh huh no, America, first, please and
Speaker 1: thank you. So that's why I'm proud to stand on
Speaker 1: the right side of all of this and be with you.
Speaker 1: See what I did there, This is what it's all about,
Speaker 1: having the guts to tell people what we're doing here,
Speaker 1: that America is no longer a doormat. You don't hear
Speaker 1: anybody else talking about this in these terms because here
Speaker 1: on this program is where you get the unfettered truth,
Speaker 1: the analysis of the state of play in America today.
Speaker 1: Tariffs they bring other nations to the table. They put
Speaker 1: our workers, our farmers, are families first. It puts America first,
Speaker 1: and that's the Trump way. It also, ironically happens to
Speaker 1: be the American way. So next time some blue check
Speaker 1: collared professor or some liberal kook Democrat member of the
Speaker 1: elected class cries out about tariffs, you can tell them this,
Speaker 1: Doug Billings said, check the scorecard, because America is winning.
Speaker 1: Unless you're anti America and you don't want us to win,
Speaker 1: you're on board with this. I can't make it. It
Speaker 1: is not any simple. I mean, it's just so simple
Speaker 1: to understand. Again, ladies and gentlemen, I'll end where I begin.
Speaker 1: The only people who disagree with this are either blind
Speaker 1: partisans or they're plagued with a chronic case of intellectual immaturity.
Speaker 1: They're not pro America if they're not on board. They
Speaker 1: just some of them don't realize this because of their
Speaker 1: blind partisanship or because they just don't get it intellectually.
Speaker 1: But this is the truth. It's a good thing that
Speaker 1: we're doing this. And Trump has never said they're going
Speaker 1: to be permanent. We have to get them all to
Speaker 1: come down and be reciprocal, and that's the end game.
Speaker 1: And that's what's beginning to happen because they're coming to
Speaker 1: the table. All right. That's it. Ladies and gentlemen, listen,
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