For a country that wants to project its power across the globe, it better keep some friends around, especially among its nearest neighbors. But when the American people elect an idiot to be their president, they're in for a rough awakening.
His most stupid MAGA followers will say, "He's keeping his campaign promises". Granted, but have his imbecile MAGA fans thougt about WHAT he was promising? If they had, they would have realized that a promise of a bad thing, if kept, will have bad consequences. Trump is supposedly surrounded by reasonable, educated people who probably told the bum that triggering tariff wars with Canada and Mexico will have devastating consquences on the US economy. So it is less about keeping a promise than judging if what is promised is a good thing to begin with.
Yesterday, the Wall Street Journal published an op-ed enumerating all the bad consequences of the Jackass-in-Chief's tariff plan, including a declining economy, increased inflation, higher prices on consumer goods, and a significant hit to the United States' manufacturing capability.
The Jackass-in-Chief says the tariffs are intended to punish those countries for not stopping the flow of dangerous drugs like fentanyl. But he does not hold the Americans who use those drugs accountable for feeding the drug trade with a high demand. According to the most fundamental principle of capitalist economies is supply and demand. If the American public wasn't a permanent drug addict and demanded the drugs, there would be no drugs flowing into the country. Why doesn't Trump's US not fight drug addiction in its own streets? Drug use is rampant across American society. Not a day goes by without a number of both White and Black Americans is caught using or dealing drugs, from the lowliest neighborhood and slum all the way up to the the white collar world of Hollywood, Wall Street and Washington DC.
Indeed, the Wall Street Journal admonished the White House press secretary - another idiot bimbo that Trump loves to surround himself with - Karoline Leavitt for blaming Canada and Mexico for enabling "illegal drugs to pour into America", because "drugs have flowed into the U.S. for decades, and will continue to do so as long as Americans keep using them."
Only the average American can stop the flow of drugs by refraining from using drugs. And how does a government make its people stop using drugs? With REGULATIONS in the legal, criminal, social, penal, pedagogical and law enfocement areas. But GOP and MAGA idiots don't want regulations. They prefer an unbridled cruel capitalism in which America returns to the lawlessness of the 19th century's Far West.
The WSJ said, “Mr. Trump sometimes sounds as if the U.S. shouldn’t import anything at all, that America can be a perfectly closed economy making everything at home. This is called autarky, and it isn’t the world we live in, or one that we should want to live in, as Mr. Trump may soon find out."
“Take the U.S. auto industry, which is really a North American industry because supply chains in the three countries are highly integrated. In 2024 Canada supplied almost 13% of U.S. imports of auto parts and Mexico nearly 42%. Industry experts say a vehicle made on the continent goes back and forth across borders a half dozen times or more, as companies source components and add value in the most cost-effective ways ... and everyone benefits.”
“None of this is supposed to happen under the U.S.-Mexico-Canada trade agreement that Mr. Trump negotiated and signed in his first term. The U.S. willingness to ignore its treaty obligations, even with friends, won’t make other countries eager to do deals.”
“Maybe Mr. Trump will claim victory and pull back if he wins some token concessions. But if a North American trade war persists, it will qualify as one of the dumbest in history.”
But Donald Trump is dumb, his policies are dumb, and shame on the 77 million dumb Americans who voted for him. Unlike his first term when he was surrounded by sane people, he is now surrounded by advisers who are dumber than him. Four more years of inanities and decline will make America bad again.
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