That Fred Trump would send his son to a military
academy was a personal tragedy; that he should have retrieved him is
a national calamity”.
----from The Quotations of
Chairman Joe
It is painfully obvious that our Caesar Disgustus cannot
run a respectable lemonade stand. He has no management skills and,
clearly, he has no negotiating skills. He has squandered hundreds of
millions of his father's money, lost over a billion dollars in the
late 80's and early 90's and would have been kicked into well
deserved oblivion, if not the penitentiary had it not been for.....?
That, as we used to say, is the sixty-four
thousand dollar question. We know that the billionaire Russian
fertilizer king came to his rescue on a Florida real-estate
investment. We know, as tRUMP's larvae has readily admitted, that
after he bilked the New York Banks out of a billion or so dollars
that these sources of income dried up and the family began to rely
more and more from Russian money. Disgustus, stealing directly from
contractors, bankers, and tax fraud moved into stealing indirectly
through the medium of the Russian oligarchy and organized crime.
Reports of money laundering and racketeering fill the pages of his
chroniclers. An now we have the Art of the Squeal wherein our
intrepid 'billionaire' protests his innocence, despite all the
evidence to the contrary, while squealing like a stuck pig.
The great deal maker has always been a fraud. He knows
nothing about the deal. He is drawn only to what flashes before his
eyes at any given moment. Now we find him in a trade war with China,
raising tariffs to 25 per cent on a huge range of goods and services
thinking this will make the Chinese knuckle under and bend to his
will.
Disgustus, totally ignorant of history, is innocent of
the consequences. Tariff protections only work if the nation raising
these barriers is fostering the very industries producing the
products in question. Raising tariffs then forces the people to buy
domestically produced goods creating employment and keeping the
wealth in the country. We did this with the textile industry,
steel-tool industries, machine industry, farm produces and a whole
range of industrial and agricultural enterprises when the United
States was building its industrial base.
But the 'suits' have been allowed to gut the industrial
base so that almost nothing is being made in this country. As a
consequence, tariffs serve only to raise the cost of living because
Americans cannot turn to domestic suppliers who would otherwise be
producing the same items at a now lower cost.
In addition, Disgustus who understands
nothing—especially finance—fails to understand that China is
America's banker. When we were young, the national debt did not have
the significance that it has now for two principle reasons: It
wasn't as high as it is now and we owed the money to ourselves. Now,
increasingly, we owe the money to foreign nationals and
governments—and the Chinese hold much of that debt. Disgustus
could provoke a response wherein the Chinese simply stop buying
treasury notes driving interest rates through the roof forcing
draconian budget cuts or, worse, dumping the notes they now have.
In any case, the use of trade to force action by foreign
governments has an uncertain record. One is reminded of the
Confederacy employing a strategy of forcing Britain to recognize
Richmond by burning nearly it's entire stock of cotton. The thinking
was that it would create such havoc in the English textile mills that
the imperative of kneeling before 'king cotton' would become
immediately obvious. Instead, the English sought supply elsewhere
and developed the Egyptian and Indian cotton markets.
Disgustus doesn't understand that it isn't the 1950's
anymore. No, the conservatives and their capitalist overlords have
succeeded in outsourcing the American economy and the palliative
offered by this ignoramus and his team will succeed only in further
destabilizing the national economy.
“An Br'er Putin, he jus' laugh and laugh
Impeach and Imprison.
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