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… A little admin message, first. I have forever done away with monthly membership. For those of you on them, existing monthly memberships are good for as long as you want to keep them, but Quarterly or Annual is much better for price, and you only get hit once or 4 times per year instead of 12. Switching membership is easy.

It’s April 2025, and Donald Trump dropped a tariff bomb on the world—announced April 2nd—that’s got everyone from ivory-tower economists to libertarian crybabies clutching their pearls. The globe’s reeling, markets are twitching, and the Talking Heads are spewing their sanctimonious hot takes like it’s your job to swallow their sweat.

Fuck that. Let’s talk real shit—straight from an obscene badass in Pattaya who’s seen enough to know better. I’m not here to coddle you; I’m here to kick your ass and make you feel stupid.

This tariff saga? It’s not some academic circle-jerk or a libertarian morality play—it’s a goddamn wake-up call. Trump’s reciprocal tariffs are flipping the script on decades of asymmetric trade bullshit where the U.S. bent over and took it while everyone else—UK, India, China, Canada, you name it—slapped tariffs and barriers on our goods like we’re their personal ATM. Academia whines about “global trade harmony,” libertarians clutch their Ayn Rand books and sob about “taxation is theft,” and the media pretends they’re doing you a favor by parroting it all.

Here’s a radical idea: maybe listen to the industrialists—the guys with their boots in the dirt, running massive businesses across borders, not theorizing from cushy offices or X threads. I’ve been a libertarian-leaning firebrand for decades, but I’m not blind. This isn’t about taxes; it’s about leveling the fucking field. Hey, listen to actual bankers, too. NY, London, Singapore, Hong Kong. Real bankers, the guys watching trades settle and money move.

Think about it like this: a country’s just a giant corporation with citizens as its customers. Suposse I’ve got a condo complex—hundreds of residents, prime real estate. Some vendor rolls up and says, “Hey, let me set up shop in your parking lot, sell to your people.” I say, “Cool, but I’m taking 15% off the top.” That’s a tariff, dipshit—not a tax. Scale that up. Every nation’s got its own turf, its own people. You wanna hawk your wares to my citizens? Pay the toll. Canada’s been gouging American dairy and cars with 200-300% tariffs while we’ve let their shit flood in tariff-free. China and India? Same game—cheap labor, non-tariff barriers out the ass, and we just smile and say, “Please, sir, may I have another?” Trump’s saying, “Enough.” Reciprocal tariffs match their game—15%, 25%, 50%, whatever they’re charging us. Brilliant. Efficient. Fair.

Now, the left—those sanctimonious pricks who’ve screamed “raise corporate taxes!” for years—suddenly get it when tariffs hike the price of their imported iPhones. “Oh no, consumers pay!” they wail. No shit, Sherlock. I’ve been yelling this from the rooftops: you can’t tax a business without it bleeding into prices. Corporate taxes? Passed to you. Tariffs? Same deal—except they’re not taxes, they’re a cost of doing business across borders. Libertarians miss this too, conflating tariffs with income or sales taxes and whining about “immorality.” Newsflash, morons: income tax punishes your work, sales tax hits your wallet, but tariffs? They’re the gate fee for foreign players to access our market. You don’t like it? Cry me a river—I’m too busy winning to care.

Here’s the kicker: this could fund the state better than the parasitic tax industry bleeding us dry. Individual income tax? A multi-billion-dollar racket—reams of regulations, deductions, loopholes, and an army of leeches (sorry, “tax experts”) getting fat off it. I’d love to see those bastards starve, their grandkids begging for scraps. Corporate taxes? Still a mess, with lawyers and accountants gaming it. Tariffs? One point of entry, one check to cut. Goods roll in from India or China—declare the value, pay the rate, done. Grossly efficient. If we’re stuck funding the “common good,” this beats the hell out of the IRS circus.

And the real magic? It’s a sledgehammer to decades of idiocy that made American goods uncompetitive. Picture this: some investor sets up a factory in China—cheap labor offsets shipping costs, and when it hits the U.S., no tariffs. They undercut American-made stuff every time. Now Trump slaps on 25%, 35%, whatever matches their barriers. Suddenly, I can drop a few million, build here, hire my countrymen, and compete. American-made, badass quality, no ocean haul. How fucking stupid was it to let foreign goods waltz in cheaper than ours despite the boat ride? Trump’s not inventing the wheel—he’s just making it spin right again. Want zero tariffs all around? Fine, let’s negotiate. Until then, this is war, and I’m rooting for the home team.

So spare me the hand-wringing. This isn’t about “taxing you more”—it’s about making the game fair. Libertarians, stuff your dogma where the sun don’t shine. Economists, get out of your spreadsheets and into the real world. I’m out here in Pattaya, living large, watching Trump rewrite the rules, and I’m loving every second. Call me what you want—I’m the guy who sees the board, plays the pieces, and comes out on top. Deal with it.

Now for members who support me. It’s a personal story about yet another Thai woman. Smashing. And whoa.