The Insanity Is Metastesizing
The Insanity is Metastasizing
Junious Ricardo Stanton
Every day we are increasingly witnessing indications
this nation’s misleadership is totally insane. The president of the United States
can’t seem to make up his mind from day to day. One day he floats universal tariffs
threatening allies and competitors alike, claiming they are ripping the US off that
the US trade deficits are their fault, the next day he postpones or reduces
them. Now he is threatening sanctions which are really forms of economic warfare,
intimidation and coercion against nations he disagrees with in order to whip
them into doing what he wants them to do. For example, demanding Vladimir Putin
stop crushing Ukraine in that nation’s US/NATO backed proxy war against Russia!
Trump was the one who said he would
end the Ukraine mess once he was inaugurated and bring peace to Gaza within
days of becoming president. We all knew Donald Trump was a narcissist with a
huge ego who fancied himself as the world’s best and greatest deal maker. He is
an internationally recognized businessman who brought an entrepreneurial
approach to the rough and tumble, highly divisive US partisan politics.
However, after serving one term and
failing in his stated objectives such as winning trade wars with China, Mexico,
Canada and the EU and supposedly draining the D.C. Deep State swamp, Trump
foolishly eschews learning from his mistakes and mishaps and unfortunately for
us, is doing the exact same things again with the exact same results. Yet
nevertheless he pushes the pedal to the metal and chaos and uncertainty are the
consequences.
This time the stakes are much higher.
His bluster, bravado, bombast and threats could launch a global war which in
turn could trigger a nuclear holocaust. His response to Israeli genocide and
ethnic cleansing in Gaza and wars against its neighbors was to not only double
down on it, but to suggest the US could turn Gaza into a seaside resort! Then
he joined Israel in its unprovoked illegal and immoral attack on Iran. He
bragged the US completed the mission obliterating Iran’s nuclear facilities
when in fact the US failed while Iran devasted Israel and symbolically attacked
a US military base to demonstrate its capabilities. To make things more Bizarro
World and Twilight Zone like, Iran warned the US it was going to attack the
base beforehand through a third-party Qatar and the US warned Iran what its
response to the attack would be which also happened to be Qatar! You can’t make this stuff up.
On the domestic front, several
weeks ago the US Attorney General and head of the FBI announced they had the
files on Jeffrey Epstein and his honey-trap extortion sex trafficking of underaged
children and were set to release them. Then all of a sudden, they reneged.
Their reversal stirred a hornet’s nest among the MAGAites and all hell broke
out. Trump in return bad mouthed the MAGAites which only infuriated them more
and raised more questions and scrutiny. This
fiasco makes Trump look silly, it gives the impression he is hiding something
which he is; the scope and circumference of the Epstein operation and the
number of high-profile people like Bill Clinton, Prince Andrew and assorted others
who were involved in it.
With all this occurring in the
first six months of his administration, if we extrapolate this pattern into the
rest of his term, we are in for a hell of a ride. The insanity is
metastasizing.
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The Gaslighting and Lies Contiune
The Gaslighting and Lies Continue
Junious Ricardo Stanton
This month
we have been subjected to a mountain of lies, disinformation, flip flopping and
insults to our intelligence by the powers who shouldn’t be. On June 13th the
renegade nation of Israel launched unprovoked attacks on Iran and the United
States joined them is this blatant violation of international law, morality and
common sense. The attack was based upon unsubstantiated claims that Iran was
months within fulfilling its nuclear weapons ambitions and they needed to be
stopped. No evidence of this was ever manufactured or presented just Netanyahu’s
word.
This is an
old canard mouthed by Benjamin Netanyahu for thirty years, his personal Chicken
Little claim much like the claims and lies of the American Neocons stating
Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction, Asad gassed his own people and Gadhafi
posed a security threat to the region. Thin about this, we’ve been subjected to
this non-stop for thirty years. We’ve heard it whether Netanyahu was in power,
or out of power, his relentless lies, “Iran is making nuclear weapons, Iran possess
an existential threat to Israel, the Ayatollahs dress funny and they smell bad”
etc. There has been no letup, no one checked his lies then and no one checked
his most recent lies.
Netanyahu
is such a blatant liar with so much confidence he could influence the US to do
his bidding, he didn’t even do what Bu$h the lesser did in his run up to the
invasion of Iraq. While Netanyahu has made presentations to the UN before like
Colin Powell did what he kept doing was use a fear mongering campaign to imply
Iran posed an immediate threat to Israel’s safety. This is how confident the
rabid Zionists were that they could launch an unprovoked attack against Iran with
impunity and there would be no blowback because Uncle Sam had their back.
This did
not turn out well for Israel because Iran hit back, hard and Israel was not
prepared for such a retaliation. Israel suffered major damage to its
infrastructure, its war making capabilities and its intelligence headquarters. Plus,
US intervention did not deter Iranian responses. In fact Iran demonstrated it
could if it wanted to, directly attack US military bases. Iran warned Qatar it
was going to attack US facilities ahead of time so they could warn the US, then
the US could adequately prepare, thus lessening the damage.
This was pure Kabuki theater. But
it demonstrated Iran’s resolve, it showed Israel is a paper tiger and the US
isn’t as mighty and lethal as they project themselves to be because their
attack on Iranian facilities failed. It did not I repeat did not achieve their
objective which was to neutralize Iran’s nuclear program. Trump in his usual
bombast claimed complete success, which was a lie and now the world knows the
US failed to knock out Iran’s facilities and Iran kicked the Zionists’ behind
to the point they had to run to Trump to beg him to call for a cease fire!
Next Trump continued his on again
off, on again tariff and trade wars and Congress passed his misnomered One Beautiful
Big Bill Act which really is a boondoggle give away to his billionaire buddies,
special interests and the military, but does relatively little for the lower classes.
All this means is we are in a protracted class war and the lower classes are
losing.
After the Israeli-Iran war we were
subjected to the ongoing Epstein fiasco. First the FBI and Justice Department
(sic) announced the Epstein files were on the desk of the US Attorney General
and would be released momentarily. Then Netanyahu visited Trump in Washington for
a closed-door meeting, and voila the Epstein files disappeared. The DOJ and FBI
say there was no client list so just fogetaboutit. No more talk about Epstein
and Maxell being Israeli operatives. Ignore the fact Maxwell is in jail,
sentenced to twenty years for sex trafficking, prostitution and a slew of related charges and Epstein
supposedly died in custody awaiting trial on similar charges or that he has
been under investigation for fraud and money laundering! They’ve all been
memory holed, business as usual.
This unleashed a firestorm within
MAGA, with large segments of Trump’s base calling Bondi, Patel, Bongino and Trump
sell outs. Trump hit back against his MAGA acolytes which made things worse. Elon Musk who is feuding with Trump said out
loud, Trump was on the list and denounced Trump’s team for deep-sixing the
files. This made the MAGAites more furious, Trump was caught in a precarious
position.
Tensions got high and hot, Trump
knew he had to do something to deflect attention away from this issue and
distract his base because this issue was not going away. So, he told AG Bondi to release the MLK assassination
files and “coincidently” out of the blue Director of National Intelligence Tulsi
Gabbard whom Trump overruled about Iran having nuclear weapons revealed Obama
was neck deep in the Russiagate attacks on Trump. Plus, the Republicans shut
down Congress prematurely for the summer so there would/could be no vote to
investigate the Epstein files or the FBI DOJ handling of this debacle! Man,
what if the government worked together this cohesively for the people?!
Trump distracted people from
Epstein by releasing the MLK files and cunningly brought up Barack Obama who is
persona non grata in MAGA circles reputation by blaming him for the attempted
coup against Trump! Well done, brilliant! So, the gaslighing and lies continue.
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The Holiday Respite Is Over, Now What
The Holiday Respite Is Over, Now What?
Junious
Ricardo Stanton
The
Fourth of July Holiday is over, people took off from work, they had
their family gatherings their barbecues, pool parties and
communities, towns and municipalities held their parades, festivities
and parties, so now what? Folks have or they are in the process of
returning home getting back into their normal routines. The supreme
irony is most Americans have no real idea what the holiday supposedly
stands for, or most importantly how the “freedoms and rights”
this country boasts so much about are being whittled away and usurped
by government and corporate collusion on a daily basis!
Freedom
of speech, civil open public debate, freedom of assembly, the right
to petition the government and protest are being snatched away with
each passing day/year. Yet only a few are making a fuss about it.
Censorship, suppression, intimidation and force are being used by the
government and its corporate partners to undermine the so called
democratic ideals and freedoms this nation boasts and brags so much
about. Incivility, hostility, ideological division, racial and ethnic
discord are driving a deepening wedge among the populous.
The American Empire is morphing from the United States into the
divided states and divided consciousness. The fact of the matter is,
this nation was forged in internecine warfare among Europeans, their
genocide against the indigenous inhabitants, the bondage and forced
enslavement of Europeans and Africans and the harsh exploitation of
subsequent immigrants by the ruling class and plutocrats. The
hypocrisy and mendacity of America are overwhelming in scope and
intensity. But the truth is coming to light as the consequences of
the actions and policies of this government and their corporate
associates become recognized by more and more people.
Special interests groups and powerful oligarchs are making a mockery
of what this country says it stands for and few people are willing to
address this situation. Few are willing to put down their hot dogs,
hamburgers and barbecue to even talk about the direction this nation
is heading and the subsequent consequences we will experience if
these patterns continue.
This
holiday offers a brief respite from the daily grind and the stresses
and tension of socially engineered changes we’ve enduring the past
five years. We are living in a period of mass gas lighting, mass
deception and Orwellian doublespeak. For example Donald Trump
supports blatant genocide in Gaza, he participated in unlawful and
unprovoked attacks on Iran a nation that has done the US or its
neighbors no harm in since the Iraq-Iran war decades ago and Trump
helps Israel a renegade settler nation that has consistently waged
war and expropriated land from the surrounding nations. They have
done this from its very inception as a carved out apartheid state in
the misnamed “Middle East”.
But
Trump campaigned as the peace candidate! And the US government says
it is doing this in the name of peace and saying it with a straight
face! Just like they said this was the land of the free and home of
the brave while enslaving Blacks, exterminating and debasing the
indigenous inhabitants.
Look at a map of Israel in 1948 then look at a map of all the
territory this rogue nation has stolen and expropriated since then.
Its neighbors did not approve or acquiesce the taking of their lands,
the taking was done by violence and force, often backed by the US and
its Western allies! Yet the US is an active partner in the theft,
displacement, genocide and disruption of a whole region in support of
its “ally” The US is supporting the Zionist state as it does
there what the Europeans did in this hemisphere and elsewhere to the
indigenous people they encountered. History is repeating itself once
again.
The
holiday weekend is over, it’s back to the regular grind: the
gaslighting, the lies, the doublespeak, the forever wars, the
reckless spending, the ridiculous bombast, the cronyism and grift.
This is our norm now. Where do we go from here?
The
American Empire is in rapid decline, the moral bankruptcy, the
social, ideological and economic divide, the widening wealth gaps,
the animus, nihilism, depression and incivility are all symptoms; a
manifestation of the rot that is metastasizing throughout the nation
eroding what little stability is left.
The
thing is, we don’t have to go out like this, we can still pull up,
we can still decide to manifest redemption and forge a renaissance;
but we have to really really want it for all of us, not just a few
the majority! The choice is up to us if we don’t do it no one will.
Trump's Kabuki War
Trump’s Kabuki War
Junious Ricardo Stanton
They say truth is the first casualty
of war; we are seeing this axiom playing out with the Israeli and US unprovoked
aggression against Iran. The warmongers in Israel have been telling the world
for thirty years Iran is on the verge of building a nuclear bomb, any day now. Even
the censorship industrial complex cannot obliterate the soundbites and visuals
of Netanyahu’s lies over the years. Thus far even after their malicious unprovoked
attacks on Iran on Friday June 13th and Donald Trump in his usual fashion of
throwing caution to the winds joining the Israelis in attacking Iran, the lies
and propaganda just keep coming.
War is a serious matter. But it
seems when psychopaths are involved the sacredness of life, the practical
benefits of peace, living in harmony with one’s neighbors and being honest and
forthright are never considered. Psychopaths and warmongers have no conscience.
They believe they can wantonly commit atrocities, inflict human suffering with impunity;
there won’t be any blowback (a CIA term for unforeseen consequences of their actions)
or penalties for their misdeeds and rapine. Regardless of their words and
verbiage to the contrary, their actions demonstrate for all to see they have no
moral or ethical code, they lack impulse control and empathy and they are
driven by an insatiable desire for power, wanton thrills and control.
Trump ordered the bombing of Iran’s,
alleged nuclear weapon facilities but the Iranians claimed the damage was
minimal and that two of the sites had been evacuated earlier. Israel instigated
a war against Iran knowing full well they could induce the West to come to
their aid which the US did. Now, the warmongers are paying a horrific price, in
the global court of public opinion. To all but the most rabid warmongers and
religious fanatics, Israel and the US are now seen as pariahs and savages.
Israel and the US’s actions are so
insane, so irrational it’s like a Kabuki theater production. They’ve failed in their
objective to neutralize Iran’s nuclear facilities and Iran hit back hard
against Israel and demonstrated to the US what it could do to its bases in the region.
Meanwhile Israel was so unprepared for
the Iranian response they begged the US to intervene.
For its’ part Iran warned Qatar a
nation which is Muslim and has decent relations with Iran but also sides with Israel
and the US. Qatar allowed the warmongers to use their air space and allegedly
helped shoot down Iranian missiles aimed at Israel, that it was going to attack
a US military base in Qatar. Iran’s forewarning helped prevent any serious casualties
and prevented the US from using Iran’s response to their attack as a casus belli
to expand their involvement.
Trump meanwhile is taking heat from
some in his base who encourage a more isolationist posture or who are incensed
he betrayed his promise not to start or drag the US into any new forever wars. However,
other MAGAites, the Christian Zionist specifically are salivating at the
prospect of an expanded war because they think it will usher in the Rapture when
all their “true believers” who dutifully support Israel will be literally taken
up to heaven to live with Jesus. Of course, the MIC is seeing dollar signs as
their stocks prices sour and business is booming.
Trump obviously lives in a Bizzaro
World type reality. He can now say he supported Israel, that he took out the
nuclear threat, even though it was nonexistent and thus the US military actually
failed in its mission, and he can also “demand” both sides cease firing, act
and play nicely towards each other. Idiot! Things don’t work like that in the real
world especially when psychopaths like Netanyahu and an imbecile like Trump are
involved.
The Zionists want to obliterate Iran
but they have not been able to do so, they and now the world knows they cannot
accomplish this with the help of the West! The world is watching the Zionists
warmongers getting their behinds handed to them in real time. They are in panic
mode. The Iranians took a hit and hit back, big time but not as fully as they
are capable of. If they wanted to they could do serious damage to Israel and
throw the global economy and supply chain for oil and commerce in turmoil.
The US
did not destroy Iran’s nuclear facilities, so what now? Israel’s “Iron Doom” is
in shambles and the world sees it. Trump actually thinks he holds enough sway
to make the warmongers in Tel Aviv stand down. He foolishly thinks he can bully
the Iranians into not defending themselves against the warmongers! According to
Trump (who is truth averse) both sides agreed
to a cease fire in principle. However just like in Gaza, Israel continued the assault
and Iran responded hard. Now Trump looks like an idiot so he is throwing a
hissy fit. If this weren’t so serious it would be funny, a complete Kabuki
show.
What can we do to set this
situation right. Pray for peace, pray for sanity and pray that this doesn’t
spiral totally out of control!
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Things Are Going as Planned
Things Are Going as
Planned
Junious Ricardo Stanton
I do not
claim to be an Oracle, Soothsayer or Shaman. In the past I’ve made predictions
not based upon rituals, seances or crystal balls but by using observation and
pattern recognition. Late in 2024 I predicted in a commentary entitled 2025 Predictions
Israel would continue to wage war on its neighbors and in a later commentary in
March of 2025 entitled War Appears Eminent I reiterated Israel is the
aggressor nation that has been trying to get the US to back its plans to attack
Iran. So here we are in June 2025 and the war is on.
On June 14th Israel
launched unprovoked attacks against Iran baselessly claiming Iran posed an
existential threat to the Zionist nation. Keep in mind Israel in general but
Benjamin Netanyahu specifically has been saying this for decades with no verification.
His continuous Chicken Little pronouncements are legendary, “Iran is months
away from developing nuclear weapons, Iran is weeks away from developing a nuclear
weapon, Iran is a threat to Israel…” Keep in mind, Netanyahu has been saying
this for almost thirty years!
Donald Trump campaigned in 2016 as
the great deal maker and negotiator. His egotistical bombast made it seem he
was the quintessential wheeler dealer. Once he was elected, we saw this was merely
egomaniacal ranting. He instigated trade wars against Mexico, Canada, the EU
and China but in the end, he did not come away with much in the way of
advantages. In fact, as a result of his “deal”, US farmers suffered!
In 2024 Trump campaigned as the “peace
candidate” bosting he would end the war in Ukraine immediately after being
inaugurated and he would bring peace to Gaza. Not only has Trump not facilitated
the end of the Ukraine War or stopped the genocide in Gaza, he is neck deep enabling
Israel’s naked aggression against Iran a nation his own intelligence community
stated as recently as March 2025, was not in the process of making a nuclear
weapon! https://jewishinsider.com/2025/03/gabbard-iran-is-not-currently-developing-nuclear-weapons/
This is Trump’s MO, make bombastic
pronouncements and promises then do nothing to actualize them or backtrack on
them altogether. Look at what he’s done with his on, off, on again tariff
threats. The only campaign promise he has kept was his pledge to secure the
borders. But now he is saying he is getting blowback about the deportation of
honest hard-working immigrants who lack the paperwork to make them citizens.
How will he address this blowback?
War is breaking out all over. Trump
the so-called peace candidate is proving unable to stop these wars because he
is being undermined and sabotaged by the neocons and warmongers like Lindsey
Graham and the EU, or because of his own ineptitude. We must never forget Trump
is sending Ukraine and Israel money and armaments from US taxpayers who do not
want war, he is prolonging and exacerbating these conflicts, killing innocent
civilians and creating distrust and animosity against America around the world!
His approval ratings were already declining, I suspect they will fall even
lower due to his failure to keep his promises to keep us out of more forever
wars.
A song asked and answered the question,
“War, what is it good for, absolutely nothing.” The bottom line of the Military
Industrial Complex says this is not true, to them war is quite profitable. From
the perspective of warmongers and psychopaths war is exciting and exhilarating.
For some politicians war is a means to usurp more power during a manufactured “emergency”
or crisis they had a direct hand in creating. For megalomaniacal settler/invaders
violence and warfare are the means to expropriate other people’s land,
property, natural resources and physical territory.
We are witnessing how psychopathic
fanatics are using myth, war and disinformation to achieve land expropriation
and ethnic cleansing in the name of a deity who supposedly chose a tribe of
nomads as his favorite group in the whole world, promised them land that was
already occupied and inhabited for thousands of years and ordered them to
slaughter all of the indigenous inhabitants! According to their myths, this deity was so
psychotic he became enraged when his “chosen” people failed to totally
slaughter and destroy all the property of the indigenous people that he severely
punished them for disobeying him and not committing genocide and rapine! Taking
these myths on “faith” has been the cause of much bloodletting, suffering,
social disruption and terror.
The supreme irony is the Zionists
are not the descendants of the Hebrews. The Ashkenazim are not Semites. The Ashkenazim
have no genetic, historic or cultural connections to the ancient Israelites or
Judeans whatsoever. But they concocted a myth that they are and they are using
this lie to advance their goals of ethnic cleansing, regional and global
domination.
We are watching the agendas of
corporate greed; globalist warmongers and fanatics coalescing and unfolding as
planned. From a moral perspective, if we remain silent and passive, if we offer
no resistance; we are complicit in murder, genocide and ethnic cleansing atrocities!
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See Beyond the Fog
See Beyond the
Fog
Junious Ricardo Stanton
There is a term
called the fog of war which was made popular following WWII. It
pertained to the uncertainty of war; how often tactical decisions were made
lacking the Information or intelligence required which led to uncertainty. In modern
times it came to mean a covering or obscuring of truth. We now know wars are
waged by deception by the leaders on both sides of the conflict, simultaneously
directed against the enemy and their own people!
Physical fog occurs when dense clouds
of water or ice droplets develop and settle close to ground level as opposed to
the upper atmosphere. Dense fog makes it difficult to see; the denser the fog
the harder it is to see thus making visibility problematic. We are all familiar
with waking up in the morning seeing smoke like fog covering the ground
extending deep into our surroundings making it extremely difficult to see
anything.
The word fog
is a common word and it has many usages in our daily language. Fog is used as a
synonym or metaphor for: confusion, mystery, depression and discombobulation. We
hear people say I’m in a fog or I had brain fog. The word fog is also used to
depict the barrier between illusion and reality.
In today’s
society we are deliberately kept in a fog by the owners and controllers of
globalized financial capital, the shot callers, the plutocrats, the powers who
shouldn’t be. We are kept in a psychological and emotional fog designed to
obscure and obfuscate truth and reality, to keep us fearful, disoriented, easily
manipulated and mailable. They use their ownership and control over the media
and its content to shape our perceptions, fashion artificial consensus and
shape our “reality”, a reality that is often not in our best interests but one
that benefits them!
These societal overlords need to
keep us this way so they can dupe, distract and deceive us into going for their
okey-doke and falling for their flim-flam. They need to keep is in a submissive,
uncritical, somnambulant state so we never challenge their narratives, question
their assertions, openly defy their orders and mandates and resist their nefarious
agendas. They need us to be Zombies, mindless automatons and willing workers
doing exactly what we are told and programmed to do.
Some example of the deliberately
manufactured fog they have unleashed on us are: COVID-19 was a novel (new)
virus, that it was causing a global pandemic, only by using repurposed (they
were already in existence but the original reason they were developed and created
did not work because most of the lab animals kept dying), unsafe, DNA altering,
mRNA injections could provide protection and prevent the spread of this new “pathogen”
that had a 98% recovery rate for healthy people!
Another fogging of truth is the preposterous
notion the indigenous people of Palestine who have no military, no advanced
weaponry, no technological sophistication or acumen somehow poses an “existential
threat” to an apartheid settler nation which was carved out in their midst, that
uses advanced surveillance technology, lethal weaponry, to exert logistical and
military control over the Palestinians. We are kowtowed into passively watching
as these “Israelis” who have no genetic or historic connection to the ancient
Hebrews conduct a real time campaign of genocide against the Palestinians.
One good thing about natural fog is,
it doesn’t last long, it usually dissipates in a few hours. Man made fog is different.
It can last as long as the people creating it have the resources and materials to
manufacture it. This is why we have to use discernment to recognize real fog
from fakery. We have to learn to see through the fake fog, stay focused on
reality as we define it. We have to persevere and not allow the miscreants to
confuse us, obscure reality or obfuscate the truth. Open your eyes, look, see
for yourself beyond the fog and walk your own path towards truth and reality.
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Does This Make Sense?
Does This Make Any Sense?
Junious Ricardo Stanton
Looking at
the early events and developments of Trump’s second term we can see several
alarming trends and patterns emerging. First his bombast undermines reality. It
is one thing to say you are the greatest, that everything you do is going to be
fantastic and you will usher in a new American renaissance but in reality what
you are doing is creating confusion and anxiety. It is readily apparent Trump
doesn’t learn from history including his own experiences, mistakes and
missteps. For example, during his first
term he instigated trade and tariff wars with Canada, Mexico, the European
Union and China which backfired and blew up in his face; especially his
dealings with China who refused to be bullied and went elsewhere to find new
markets or expanded the ones they already had in Europe, Latin America, Africa
and Asia. Trump’s actions helped China spur its Belt and Road initiative with
the rest of the world!
In addition
to not learning from his own mistakes, Trump makes moves that are illegal which
in due course will cost him. Already his approval numbers are falling. Some of
his actions other than the securing the border are quite unpopular and upsetting.
Right now, Trump and the Republicans enjoy slight majorities in both houses of
Congress, but even with the Democrats in total disarray, some of his moves are
boomeranging back on him. For example, DOGE. While it is admirable to want to
cut the massive deficits, regain fiscal sanity, reign in government spending
and address the humongous government debt, how he is going about it are both
illegal and reckless.
DOGE is not
a government department even though the word Department is part of its name. It
was not created by Congressional legislation. At best it is an executive advisory
committee that doesn’t have the authority to fire personnel, disband government
agencies nor halt appropriations passed by Congress! His plans to cut taxes while
increasing military spending are going to blow up the deficits. Cuts in
Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security are not going to bring the budget in
line nor balance it! Evidently Trump fails to grasp the fact this did not work well
under Rondal Reagan or George W. Bu$h; both of them cut taxes and
simultaneously increased spending which resulted in massive deficits and
government debt!
Trump’s on,
off, then on again tariff threats are making him look foolish, indecisive and
wishy-washy. Again, by not being a student of history Trump and his advisors if
you can call them that, fail to realize that in the past, trade and currency
wars and tit for tat tariff retaliation have led to major shooting wars and
military conflicts. His tariffs are not going to solve America’s trade
imbalances which are self-inflicted. These massive trade imbalances are not the
result of the rest of the world ganging up and cheating the US! That is utter
nonsense designed to dupe the American people and place blame on foreigners
when the culprits are the financers, corporations and their bought and paid for
elected officials who legislated and cosigned the offshoring of capital,
factories and jobs to Asia in the 1980’s.
They called it Globalization.
Globalization was the shift of capital, technology, factories and jobs overseas
in exchange for much cheaper labor, available raw materials and less regulation
and humongous profits! This closed US factories, sent well paying US jobs
overseas and hollowed out much of the US industrial infrastructure. The Owners
and Controllers of Globalized Financial Capital (OCGFC) major contributors
to both political parties, transformed the US from an industrial titan into an
economy of gig and service workers, a debt-based system of myriad financialized
casino-Ponzi boom-bust scams. CEO compensation soured while workers’ paychecks
stagnated and declined.
This happened in the 1980’s and
early 90’s and we are reaping the whirlwind of these disastrous decisions. The
factories that left are not coming back no matter how high Trump’s tariffs are simply
because OCGFC will merely transfer their capital, technology and factories to
some other country where they can exploit their cheap labor. Trump should know
this.
Although in
2016 he campaigned on draining the D.C. Swamp, promising he was going to lock
Hillary Clinton and her ilk up, he did neither. Business went on as usual. In
2024 Trump campaigned on peace, saying he would resolve the situation in Gaza,
bring the Ukrainian war to an end and establish better relationships with
Russia and China within days of his inauguration. Well, here we are going into
five months into his second term, and the situations in those places are
worsening! Does any of this make sense?
