Subject: What flummoxes me the most
I've openly said - I hate that he picked a fight with Canada of all people.

I've openly said - I hate that there was no strategy or chess game, it was just a full on let's-just-go-after everyone.

I've openly said - I support trade reforms, but I wish we'd have picked 'targets' if you will, on a one by one basis. On a two by two basis. Not everyone.

And I'm not here to argue the plusses or minuses of tariffs.

And when there's "we're taking Greenland" "51st state Canada" - Christ, what do you expect but for people to get angry and more dug in.

So call me a partisan or a Trumper all you like, but I'm the one who voted Biden in 2020 in between my Trump votes. I'm the one who has called it like I see it many, many times even if it was against my orthodoxy or party or philosophy. Topics range Iraq to Obamacare.

What flummoxes me?

Countries getting all mad at RECIPROCAL tariffs. "You're doing to us what we have always done to you. I'm gonna tell Mommy!!!!!" and in some instances the American tariffs are HALF of what others charge.


And I'm reminded why I go MAGA even when I hate so much of it (making America great again by Schvucking Americans out of food and health care for starters....no not my cup of tea. Telling innocent foreign tourists and smart legal foreign residents that we're gonna get into their pants so dont bother spending your money here.....again I call them like I see them)

But even me, a loudmouth....doesn't have the Chutzpah to say "you have to pay a $5.00 toll to drive by my home on the way to your home neighbor. BUT you can't even charge me $2.50 or you're a bad friend". -- like wow I can't even begin to make that argument.

But oh well.

It's too late anyways.

Us in the 90's were called 'racist' 'protectionist' by NeoConRepublicans who shouted "Free Trade!" and loved cheap labor. We were called that by Liberals who have always wanted to give America away piece by piece.

Now, both sides have a problem. Despite their dumb phuck SP 500 and their dumb phuck statistics and links on how wealthy everyone is, they are presiding over a country that long ago lost certain anchors in life and one of those was a true middle class lifestyle not via the public dole, but from the ability to say "I can read, write, conduct myself ok, I'm willing to work 40 hours lifting shit or building shit"---and that meant he can support a Wife and kids and god forbid the kids were raised by two married parents. Not a mulletted- tattoo'd jag off and the bimbo he got pregnant who now *need* the public dole. He and his Wife could work, save, take the yearly trip to myrtle beach or Yellowstone or whatever, maybe hit Chi-Chi's on special occasions, and put the kid thru state college.

The Wall Street Journal Republicans, and the AmericaHasToMuch Liberals got together and destroyed it.

Now, we have two problems:

1.)Trump has NO strategy at all. I'll be 100 bucks that his team is MORE concerned and MORE well versed on blaming each other if this goes wrong, VERSUS a coherent plan set up via thinking and wargaming. As someone who TWICE has sold a humble small business, TWICE to entities with 100x my net worth -- I can say with authority - I've done the chess move thing and this crew does NOT.


2.)It is too late. You people gave not only your industries away. You not only made your consumption based economy and Americanism being "we can afford to buy cheap shit"......but you SHOWED players like China how to grow. You literally SHOWED them your tech and corporate blueprints. So you lost your independence in many ways.

MLK, Gandhi, Hamilton -- just a few evil "Nationalists" who felt it was better, commerce wise to give your own side advantage. But I guess Bush and Clinton and the editors of the NYT and WSJ were smarter than those idiot shitheads.


Anyhow, just thought I'd take 5 minutes off from enjoying the punishment I see all around for the Western World.

"I can do it to you, but you can't even do half of it back to me"

Yeah, I'll grasp 2+2= 4,000 before I grasp that.

Hey XI, Modi, Keim, Emanuel, Vladdy - these idiots in America are NOT a country. Their politics does NOT stop at water's edge - heck it intensifies. You can divide them, and use those divisions to play them off each other, and defeat them from within. Just promise me you'll rape their constitution and rule of law, and if you do that, ok, I'll give you trade and industry. In some cases your population is smarter, more articulate, and with better traditional values than these idiots in America. Tis why they are getting poorer and more shot up and deader, while you are getting smarter and richer -both in your country, and what used to be their country too. Today if I engage in commerce, buy a meal, discuss business or loans, or need health care - I actually *need* your people, not the other way around. Keep crushing these jagoffs with their own culture and own divisions. JUST like has been done to you all this time. Don't let it happen this time.