Don’t Get Sucked Into The “Fear Porn” Media Frenzy!

One Day Into the “Tariff Reset,” and the Media Declared Trump’s Tariffs a Failure!

By Richard Allen – April 14, 2025

I’m a firm believer in the old saying: “Art Imitates Life.”  Or, more precisely, “Art Reflects Life.”  Theatrical productions (including movies) often reveal they do understand how the game of life – from a human perspective – is played.  One such movie that I’ve quoted several times in Blogs over the past four years is:  “It’s A Wonderful Life,” starring Jimmy Stewart, Donna Reid and Lionel Barrymore. Let’s start with a brief recap of the movie plot. George Bailey is a good man, who longs to travel the world building things, but sadly finds himself stuck in Bedford Falls, running his father’s shabby building and loan. While George has to fight to keep the “Bailey Building and Loan” afloat, his faith and honesty are eventually rewarded. Over many years of sacrifice, he not only keeps the business afloat, but is able to transform his community, building “Bailey Park,” a wonderful subdivision of very nice, yet affordable homes for poor working class families.

At one point in the movie, George’s nemesis – Old Man Potter, a rich and miserly old man, clamoring to control everyone in Bedford Falls, is warned by one of the bean counters working for him that: George Bailey has beaten you with his “Bailey Building and Loan,” and if the Old Man was not careful, “someday he would be asking George Bailey for a job.” Potter, acknowledging his failure to crush the “Bailey Building and Loan,” changes tactics and invites George to meet with him, hoping to make a deal with George for money and position. In exchange, George would have to allow Old Man Potter to finally shut down the one business in town he doesn’t control, the “Bailey Building and Loan!”  After entering Potter’s office, George accepts a fine cigar and Potter asks him to sit down. Here’s how the dialogue goes:

GEORGE: “Well, I. . . I suppose I’ll find out sooner or later, but just what exactly did you want to see me about?”

POTTER: “George, now that’s just what I like so much about you.  George, I’m an old man, and most people hate me. But I don’t like them either, so that makes it all even. You know just as well as I do, that I run practically everything in this town but the Bailey Building and Loan. You Know, also that for a number of years I’ve been trying to get control of it . . . or kill it. But I haven’t been able to do it. You have been stopping me. In fact, you have beaten me, George, and as anyone in this county can tell you, that takes some doing. Take during the depression for instance - You and I were the only ones that kept our heads. You saved the Building and Loan, and I saved all the rest.”

GEORGE: “Yes. Well, most people say you stole all the rest.”

POTTER:  “The envious ones say that, George, the suckers.” [https://assets.scriptslug.com/live/pdf/scripts/its-a-wonderful-life-1946.pdf?v=1729114932]

In this one conversation between George Bailey and Old Man Potter, Potter admitted that during a “run on the bank” years ago during the Depression, George Bailey was able to keep his head – and Not Panic!  As a result, George was able to save the “Bailey Building and Loan.” Likewise, Old Man Potter was able to save everything else. This is the subject of this week’s Blog – Keeping our head and Not Panicking during President Trump’s Global Economic Reset!  On April 2, 2025 President Donald J. Trump levied “Reciprocal Tariffs on many of America’s biggest trading partners. Within 24 hours of Trump’s actions, the Deep State Controlled Media started a steady drum beat of “doom and gloom.” “Trump has launched a Global Trade War,” and “He’s going to Crash the American Economy.”  In fact, the Stock Market in the U.S. has suffered serious losses over the past several days of trading, finally giving the “hapless Democrats” something substantive to complain about.  And it’s not only the Radical Marxist-Democrats who are whining, it’s the “squishy-no-backbone-RINO-Republicans” who are also screaming: “The Sky Is Falling!”

Like George Bailey, we need to keep our heads, and Not Panic!  President Trump has earned our trust. He’s kept virtually every promise he made during his first term (2017-2021), and has started his second term in office doing exactly what he said he would do!   He’s a businessman and has some of the best and brightest people in his cabinet – especially his economic team!  So let me remind all of my readers of three facts that are of extreme importance:

1. Trump has NOT started a Trade War!  To say he has, is totally false. Trump did not start a Trade War – there already was a global trade war raging against the U.S., but sadly, our own American leaders had chosen “not to participate,” but passively accept the unfair trading rules of “The New World Order.” This allowed the world’s major trading partners to engage in unfair trading practices, warring against the U.S., its markets and exports. Donald Trump campaigned on a promise that: “Since other trading partners are already at war with America, it’s high time we Fight Back!" So, for conservative pundits” railing that “Tariffs Don’t Work,” I only need to remind you that prior to progressive President Woodrow Wilson, who instituted the Federal Income Tax in 1916, revenue only came into the Treasury by way of Tariffs. There has been a Trade War going on for most of our modern era, with America being the “Piggy Bank” to the world.  The result has been the “offshoring of millions of manufacturing” and other “high tech jobs.” American middle class workers have absorbed the brunt of the fatalities in this war already. Autos, Steel, Textiles, Raw Materials, Computer Chips, Electronics and Pharmaceuticals – just to name a few industries – have all been negatively affected.  All the while, fat-cat politicians from both parties have grown rich from Corporate donations, in may cases – from foreign countries!

   
   

2. Every prediction they’ve made about Trump and his actions for the past decade – have been 100% Wrong!  I can’t think of one prediction that came to pass, made by the “Doomsday Deep-State-Controlled-Media” in Trump’s first term, Not One!  Be aware, it’s not just that they don’t have a good record in predicting, they have been 100% wrong.  Need I remind everyone, they predicted that Trump would “tank the economy” – and that Energy prices could never be lowered.  Even our previous president, Barack Obama carped: “What’s he going to do?  Wave a magic wand?” Well apparently – Trump did have a Magic Wand!  Or more precisely, Trump had the will to lower energy prices, and he did it.  And that’s the real problem with both the Deep State RINO’s and Democratic-Marxist Presidents:  It’s not that they CAN’T do anything right to benefit America or her people.  No, it’s THAT THEY WON’T DO ANYTHING THAT MIGHT HELP AMERICA!  They are sold out to “The New World Order!”  Remember, these same corrupt politicians and talking heads in the media claimed just four to six months ago, that “we need legislation to fix the border.”  Trump proved that to be a lie within his first month in office. Their policies and positions are ALL WRONG – because at their core, they HATE AMERICA!  They are loyal only to Corrupt Money filtered to them from the “Globalist-New-World-Order!”

   
   

3. The last time our corrupt Political Class and Legacy Media ran a scare campaign at this level, was when Covid Vaccinations were almost mandated! While the Media has perfected the art of “Fear Porn” over the past five decades (since Ronald Reagan), their shrill responses have reached a new level when directed at Donald J. Trump. Sure, they’ve called every Republican since Reagan, Hitler. And every Republican is going to “start World War III” and destroy the economy, giving tax breaks to the rich. But with Trump, they need to exert the full force of Government behind the propaganda, censorship and deception. Remember, the stock market runs on the “perceptions and confidence of the investor!”  These talking heads in politics and the media are doing their best to tank the Stock Market and the American Economy. The last thing they can afford is for Donald Trump to once again “Fix the Messes” they have created.  Even worse, if Trump lowers gas prices, spurs the economy toward real growth and puts people back to work – these are the worst outcomes they could imagine!  These Corrupt Men and Women are Not afraid that Trump’s Tariffs will fail, they are terrified that they will work!  Not only will people realize the “cheat” that has been perpetrated on taxpaying citizens, but Globalists will fail to gain political power in the Mid-Terms in 2026.  And they will lose the presidency to Trump’s likely successor, J.D. Vance!

I say all this to calm us, and ask all of us to be patient. Just like George Bailey calmed the nerves of the shareholders in the Bailey Building and Loan, keeping it from going under, our current George Bailey – Donald J. Trump – hopes to reset the Global Economy away from America being the “piggy bank” for “The New World Order.” Trump does not need our money, but he is looking to wrest control of our country and economy away from the Global Elites whose only desire is to “subjugate us.” My prayer is that God would grant us a reprieve from the madness that the past 80 Post World War II years have resulted in: Needless Wars, Deficit Spending, Socialism, Hatred and a drastic Move Away from God!  Let me pray not only for a reprieve, but a “Revival of Faith, Family, Church and Righteousness!”  To quote Old Man Potter, Let’s Keep Our Heads and Not Panic.  God is in control!

Soli Deo Gloria!