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According to Donald Trump, the most beautiful word in the dictionary — a word he says is even “more beautiful than love” — is “tariff.” And he’s wasting no time putting that word to use, vowing to place new and additional tariffs on Canada, Mexico, and China. The president-elect’s plan is to put a 25% tariff on products from Mexico and Canada and a 35% tariff on all Chinese imports. “I know there’s mixed feelings about tariffs,” Sara Gonzales of “Sara Gonzales Unfiltered” comments. “There was a point in time where I understood the argument of ‘Well, it’s a free market.’” “Well, it’s really not, because the way that China has manipulated the system, the way that they have basically slaves, engaging in slave labor, and everything is so much cheaper, and all of that,” she continues, adding, “The free market has gotten very skewed.” Another major argument against tariffs is that “they raise prices across the board” — but even CNBC is disputing that supposed “fact.” “If politics were a video game, and the president were a character you could play, tariffs would be your most powerful economic move,” Jon Fortt said in a segment on “The Squawk Box.” “But what’s a tariff? Basically tax any business has to pay to bring goods into a country.” “The USA is uniquely a reasonably big country with a huge consumer class by global standards, so most every sizable company in the world needs to sell here. The argument against tariffs is that they just tax the U.S. consumer,” he continued. “What tariffs can also do is encourage companies to avoid the extra charge by making things here in the U.S., or they can level the playing field for U.S. manufacturers who are getting crushed by cheap imports.” “So you can’t just swallow these headlines that claim tariffs are just attacks on U.S. consumers. If tariffs always dramatically raise prices for consumers, why didn’t that happen in 2018 and 2019? The truth is that the U.S. has been so focused on making it easy to import goods from other countries, that we’ve made it reflexive for other countries to tariff U.S. products while we let overseas goods flood in, and tariffs can’t stop that,” he added. Gonzales is shocked that CNBC let Fortt defend Trump’s tariffs. “Wow,” she comments. “The far-right CNBC repeating these far-right-wing extremist talking points that tariffs are not necessarily the end of the world.” Want more from Sara Gonzales?To enjoy more of Sara's no-holds-barred take to news and culture, subscribe to BlazeTV — the largest multi-platform network of voices who love America, defend the Constitution, and live the American dream.

Hollywood actress Sharon Stone joined the chorus of elite voices who blamed American ignorance for the results of the election and said women were now under renewed threat. Stone made the comments during a panel discussion at the Torino Film Festival in Italy after being asked about the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women. 'Americans who don’t travel, who 80% don’t have a passport, who are uneducated, are in their extraordinary naïveté.' "We have to stop and think about who we choose for government. And if, in fact, we are actually choosing our government or if the government is choosing itself," Stone said. "You know, Italy has seen fascism. Italy has seen these things. You guys, you understand what happens. You have seen this before," she added. "My country is in its adolescence. Adolescence is very arrogant. Adolescence thinks it knows everything. Adolescence is naive and ignorant and arrogant. And we are in our ignorant, arrogant adolescence." Stone had been vocal about her support for the failed presidential campaign of Vice President Kamala Harris. "We haven't seen this before, in our country. So, Americans who don’t travel, who 80% don’t have a passport, who are uneducated, are in their extraordinary naïveté. What I can say is that the only way that we can help with these issues is to help each other," the actress continued. She went on to tell men they needed to protect women from bad men. "We must say that good men must help good men, and those good men must be very aware that a lot of their friends are not good men. And you can't continue to pretend that your friends are good men when they’re not good men," she said. "And you must be very clear minded and understand that your friends who are not good men are dangerous, violent men," Stone concluded. "And you have to keep them away from your daughters, your wives and your girlfriends, because this is the time when we can no longer look away, when bad men are bad."The actress made headlines in 2021 when she spoke out against cancel culture and called it the "stupidest thing I have ever seen happen." Like Blaze News? Bypass the censors, sign up for our newsletters, and get stories like this direct to your inbox. Sign up here!

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