By Erik Wallbank - April 10, 2025
Rubio gloats about deporting 300 students for protesting (non-violently) against murder & genocide. Trump has a plan to have US citizens/criminals deported to a maximum security prison in El Salvador. And once again he'a regaling Gaza as a wonderful piece of real estate Israel gave away (Israel illegally took Gaza in the 1967 war that Israel started). That same land, that Israel has occupied from then to now (the UN has decreed, in vain, for Israel to withdraw from occupied Palestine). Two evil twins, Donald and Bibi, having lunch in the Oval Office, expounding on the residents of Gaza, free to live safely wherever they want . . . as long as it's not in Gaza. Until then, continue on with the slaughter of innocents.
Trump tells it that “Iran will experience a bad day” if they do not come to terms, while sitting with Netanyahu - who possesses illegal nuclear arms. Remember how we got here. Trump dropped the JCPOA (i.e. the Iran nuclear deal) in 2017. Trump gets rid of any agreement that the other side signs - if they sign it, it must be bad. Besides, Obama negotiated JCPOA.
Trump ran on a platform that bombing Yemen was stupid, then yesterday posted on the president's social media site footage of around 30 young Yemeni men, on the last day of their fast of Ramadan, being blown up. They're all dead. Thank God for the peace president.
What about those deportees sent to the maximum security prison in El Salvador? Some because they had tattoos of mom/dad. They were chosen to fill empty seats on the bus. Some of my readers say illegals do not deserve a notice or a hearing. But Trump isn't a constitutional “due process” sort of fellow. A Supreme Court opinion, penned by Kavanaugh, and supported by all 9 justices, found that anyone deported from the US gets a notice/hearing.
When you have a president, complicit with Bibi in genocide, while sanctioning and threatening the entire world, he has to be held up to the US Constitution and Bill of Rights. Trump, burdened by a lack of compassion/education/ethics, needs to be reigned in. In Trump's 1st term he made a journeyman effort to overthrow the government of Venezuela. He was unsuccessful and we got migrants. Living conditions in VZ were so bad because of sanctions and regime change that they came north. Vicious gangs came to the US. That's on Trump. He can't sent them home because he doesn't recognize Maduro.
I heard from a friend tonight regarding my negativity about Trump: "I do find it interesting however that 90% of the countries Trump is reciprocal tariffing are anxious to come to the table and work out a deal. Like tariffs or not, these players would not be coming to the table...unless they knew deep inside they were getting away with something... I don’t mind a little patriotism coming back to this country... can you feel it?" I'm not negative about Trump. I'm holding him up to the US Constitution and Bill of Rights - as I do all politicians. Maybe some readers don't like it when I do it to their boy?
As for small, weak nations, in dollar debt, dependent on the US, knowing they are doing something wrong? That's like mom/pop stores dealing with Mafia protection rackets - paying-up because it's their fault they need protection. Not minding that little patriotic feeling we get from our foot on the world's neck. Doesn't that look like 1933 . . . Germany?
Our trade imbalance is a consequence of 'hollowing-out', not a cause. We allowed jobs to offshore, they were not taken from us by threat or force. We are sanctioning most of the world because Trump is finding his support in those who don't give a damn about the rest of the world. Trump's a “God Bless the USA”, and no one else, guy. Like the British in WW2, we are bering asked to tighten out belts. But, the British were the ones under attack, not the attackers. Trump is breaking all the rules. If you operate within a known set of rules and it doesn't work out, you can change course. But, if you're making it up as you go, that's different. Trump is operating without a plan. As history shows, evil schemes have a shorter than anticipated lifespan. When, finally, the world labels the US and Israel as pariah nations, with nowhere to go, no one to count on, Americans will be herded into their distraction (which is also their dream) - war with Iran.
Why did Trump get rid of the JCPOA? Because it only dealt with one issue - the development of a nuclear weapon. Trump's demands, now, call for an end of Iranian sovereignty. No missile defense against madman Netanyahu who wants nothing more than to dismantle and take over Iran. No more terrorist proxies i.e. aiding nations against colonizers.
Trump's policies give off an appearance of logic - to the uninformed. He proceeds as if there is some subjective logic in the imperative to take over nations by military force for strategic necessity. How does this differ from actions of a tyrant? Are Trump's interests, by necessity, paramount to the interests of the rest of the world - taken together?
This thing about the US “re-manufacturing” is more BS. Other than Musk, none of Trump's billionaires know anything about manufacturing, they're finance fortune guys. Some vital things we need will stop shipping within a month. Will we re-tool over 30 days? Even if that were the plan (and it is not), re-productivity is a long process that would be complicated. Needed machinery would have to come from China and Japan. We would have to radically alter supply chains for needed production. And what
about the US labor force? Is it intelligent and educated? Were it the plan, American produced goods would be so expensive the world couldn't afford them. As with the iPhone. Nope, the goal is not to re-industrialize. Trump aims to control and get production back to the US by threats, tariffs, sanctions and coercion . . . and if necessary, by using military force.
The world is out there looking at $10T taken out of the world economy over 3 days, while Trump reminds each nation why the US is not agreement capable. Poorer nations, under Trump's boot-heel, will genuflect, but richer nations will boycott the US. Trump's policies are not a negotiation, they are a shakedown. But it won't go unanswered. Powerful nations are not taking a knee. China has prohibited its companies from doing business with US companies. Panama is off the table - no more rare earths.
Trump's tariffs will fail, and will drive the world at greater acceleration towards gold. I sold a car this morning to buy junk silver. While I sat on my hands, silver went up more than a buck. No matter - what awaits the dollar and the United States is far from over.
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