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Humble Servant News on X Business Opinion: The Tariff Skeptic

The tariff haters strut around like they’ve cracked America’s economic code, but they’re the dimwitted masterminds of its downfall—ignorant, smug, and downright traitorous. They whimper about tariffs hiking prices for avocados and earbuds, sipping their soy lattes, while America’s industrial soul gets torched on their watch. They’re not skeptics—they’re gutless accomplices, and the trade deficits with China and the EU, plus the IP theft hemorrhage, prove they’ve sold us out for pennies.

Let’s shred their garbage with facts. The U.S. trade deficit hit $948 billion in 2024—a suppurating wound bleeding jobs and innovation—while these government drones and corporate puppets bleat "free trade" like lobotomized cultists. China’s trade deficit with us? A crushing $375 billion in 2023, barely dented in 2024—$1.1 trillion in imports dwarfing our measly $367 billion in exports. The EU’s just as ruthless: a $235.6 billion goods deficit in 2024, up 12.9% from 2023, with their $605.8 billion in exports mocking our $370.2 billion. Manufacturing jobs? Gutted from 17 million in 1994 to 12 million by 2016, thanks to NAFTA and China’s WTO entry—calamities these fools either cheered or ignored. Output rises, but it’s a mirage—automation and offshoring fatten foreign wallets while the heartland decays.

Now, IP theft—the silent job killer. China pilfers $600 billion annually in American intellectual property, per the FBI, gutting our edge in tech, pharma, and manufacturing. That’s not just a number—it’s 2.1 million U.S. jobs vaporized yearly, per the U.S. Trade Representative, as stolen designs fuel China’s knockoff factories and kill our startups. The tariff skeptics let it happen, too spineless to fight back. Innovation? A cruel farce. U.S. global R&D share slid from 37% in 2000 to 31% by 2020, while China’s shot from 5% to 23%. The EU’s no saint—Germany’s $157 billion export flood in 2023 swamps us with cars and tech, built on decades of pilfered know-how. These clowns twiddle their thumbs as our job-creating ideas get looted.

The disadvantage? A humiliating gut punch. China’s 25% tariffs on our cars sneer at our 2.5% open door. The EU slaps 10% on autos, 25% on other goods, while we play the doe-eyed chump. Canada and Mexico exploit USMCA loopholes, dumping junk, and the skeptics never ask: has this worked before? History bellows yes—Smoot-Hawley flopped, but postwar tariff smarts built an empire. These cowards can’t spell "smarts." China’s $375 billion surplus, the EU’s $235.6 billion heist, and $600 billion in IP theft are their scorecard—they’ve let us get mauled.

Their depth? A puddle of drool. They parrot stats—GDP down 0.2%, 223,000 jobs lost—dodging the bloodbath. Trump’s 2018 steel tariffs lifted production 7% by 2020, saved jobs, with a puny 2.4% price bump, per the ITC. Compare that to $1.7 trillion in GDP lost to offshoring since 2000, or 2.1 million jobs axed yearly by China’s IP theft. Their policies prop up China’s sweatshops and the EU’s smug economies while ours crumbles—GDP growth at a pathetic 2%, half the postwar peak, as trade deficits and stolen IP bury us.

These tariff haters aren’t clueless—they’re saboteurs. They’ve traded our industrial might for cheap gadgets, our ingenuity for China’s 2.1-million-job-killing theft, and our future for EU handouts—all while smirking like savants. The $375 billion China deficit, $235.6 billion EU rip-off, and $600 billion IP drain are their handiwork: a nation gutted by their idiocy. Stop indulging these frauds—they’re not skeptics, they’re gravediggers, and America’s the corpse.