April 30, 2025: 100 days in Sodom,

April 13, 2025:

April 9, 2025: Age of Ignorance,

April 3, 2025: Tariff the Penguins, Consider the Source, Idiot in Chief

 

Well, the fool has gone and done it. Yesterday our Caesar Disgustus demonstrated his breathtaking ignorance imposed tariffs upon the world, that is except for Russia and North Korea.

With unabashed and seemingly guileless ignorance, our erstwhile Caesar stood before a podium in the White House Rose Garden and before the cameras and the world shit himself to his socks.

Unaware that he was soiling himself and holding up a board which purported to show the tariffs imposed by the world's nations, the Orange Turd told the nation and the world with a straight face that we were being 'ripped off'. Citing astronomical tariff rates charged by nations around the world he presented his plan to retaliate by 'graciously' hiking U.S. Tariffs to roughly half that imposed by others.

Watching this unfold on television in real time and, coming as it did from the purported 'president' of the United States, I thought to myself “holy shit, I didn't realize that we were being charged so much.

Then I thought “remember your school lessons, son”; consider the source.

Consider the source. When, I asked myself, has this bastard ever told the truth? The answer is at once: never. I began to look suspiciously upon the presentation and then concluded it was all bullshit. In the first place we wouldn't be paying the tariffs. In the second place there was just something about the numbers that didn't make sense.

It transpires that instead of just looking up what is currently being levied by the European Union, or China, or Japan, or Vietnam, Disgustus had his staff do the calculating. Led by Harvard's very own Peter Navarro and other lights, they came up with a formula that took the total trade with a particular country and calculated the percentage of that trade that represented a 'deficit'. It went something like this. The trade with a country is say 10 billion dollars. We buy 3 billion more from them than they buy from us. Therefore, according to these geniuses, the tariff imposed upon the U.S. Is 30%.

No it isn't. The tariff, the real tariff is somewhere between 1 and 3 percent on average depending upon the country. What the White House staff calculated is not tariffs but the percentage of our trade deficit as compared with the total trade with a particular nation. Clearly, no one in the White House, nor in the Commerce Department, is capable of calculating such things, much less simply looking up the tariff schedules. And, more frighteningly, no one in this maladministration knows what the hell a tariff is, least of all the idiot in chief.

Hell, they made such a pig's breakfast of it, that they imposed tariffs on Diego Garcia, a U.S military base in the Indian Ocean, and two islands off Antarctica, Heard and McDonald Island, occupied by only penguins. Yes, the damn fool imposed tariffs on unsuspecting penguins.

He was going to staff his 'government' with “only the best, only the brightest”. In tRUMPspeak, where truth always lies at a bearing of 180 degrees from the direction he's pointing, this promise becomes frightening. Always believing he is the smartest man in the room, Disgustus has staffed his administration with people even more ignorant and stupid than himself. And, since he is the most ignorant and stupid man to ever soil the Oval Office, this is a terrifying prospect indeed.

What we have here is a dysfunctional and terminally incompetent maladministration in which the sycophants surrounding the Emperor must present him with data supporting his foregone conclusions, lest he shoot the messenger. To that end they present him with 'facts', “alternative facts” in the parlance of Kellyanne Conway, that correspond and support his woeful ignorance. That a staff could produce such garbage and, most disconcerting, that our Caesar would accept them as legitimate clearly indicates that this regime has long since become unhinged from reality. Dementia Don, never intelligent, does not have the mental acuity to evaluate the information he is being fed; and woe to the bearer of inconvenient truths.

And so, he stands before the world beshit, wholly unaware of how ridiculous the rest of the world looks upon him and the awful stench that surrounds him.

Impeach and Imprison.

April 1, 2025: Tariff the Earth, April Fool's Joke, A Pig's Breakfast

 

Our shitting 'president' threatens to play a nasty joke upon the nation and the world on this April Fool's day. Tomorrow, it has been determined, he will announce a tariff regimen upon the entire world.

I'm reminded of the old “Dutch Boy” advertisement in which the Hollander is pouring an entire can of paint over the globe covering it in a viscus mess. Sherwin Williams evidently bought out Dutch Boy for it now uses the artwork sans the caption “cover the earth” but Caesar Disgustus, who is old enough to remember the depiction, has no doubt been inspired by it.

The problem is that tariffs are, like all public policy initiatives, crude instruments.

Tariffs are best applied upon specific industries and are used to protect and nurture home grown enterprises. They can only be imposed if such industries are capable of meeting domestic demand, otherwise tariffs simply become a sales tax imposed on imported goods raising the cost of such goods.

And, since we have allowed the 'suits' to export our manufacturing, nearly everything on the shelves is now imported, such an action, by the most ignorant of current world leaders, will set off an inflationary spiral the likes of which this country has not seen since the 1970's.

Nevertheless, Donald tRUMP, convinced for decades that tariffs were the magic bullet, the act that could solve everything, “the most beautiful word in the English Language”, is hell bent upon the levy.

He campaigned on the issue. He nailed his trousers to its mast and will soon find it impossible to climb down without exposing his fat, ugly backsides. As is his wont, our Caesar Disgustus promised today to make a pig's breakfast of our national prosperity. We shall see what tomorrow brings.

Impeach and Imprison.