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Tariffa Don de la Trumpa [1]

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Date: 2025-02-02

Not to miss the opportunity, Donald decided to celebrate his tariffs going into effect on February 1st. As he promised, 25% on Mexico and Canada. But only 10% on Canadian energy, whatever that means. And a 10% additional tariff on China.

There is an Executive Order that actually does the job of explaining why and the amount of the tariffs, but it really doesn't say anything different than what Trump put in his post.

With the Chinese, he already had a 100% tariff on electric cars, 50% on semiconductors, 25% on steel and aluminum, and 25% on lithium-ion batteries. There are also tariffs on natural graphite, medical goods, magnets, cranes, and solar cells.

What Trump is inviting is called a trade war. Retaliatory tariffs from the countries we've imposed them on. The prices of everything from cars to avocados will go up. This is not what Trump promised. He promised that prices would go down.

The IEEPA can be invoked by the president in response to any unusual or extraordinary threat, after declaring a National Emergency for it.

He blames the need on "illegal aliens" and dangerous drugs, specifically fentanyl. Now, I had to apologize when I used the phrase "illegal immigrants" on my diary "Quakers get their Oats." The word "illegal" is a trigger word. It means something bad to everyone. So, I came up with undocumented immigrants, instead. Donald Trump decided to go back a couple of decades to when we used "illegal aliens." He hasn't learned. It's not just a matter of being politically correct, it's about describing them correctly.

Donald is correct in that it is his job "to ensure the safety of all." The "all" in this case is the whole population of the United states. Not everyone in the United States is affected by either undocumented immigrants or fentanyl, directly. However, the whole population will be living with these tariffs every single day that they're in effect.

This is supposedly keeping his promise about stopping undocumented immigrants and illegal drugs from crossing our borders. Tariffs do nothing of the sort.

People voted for lower prices, not higher prices, and undocumented workers actually keep prices low. Apparently he hasn't got the brains to figure out how to do more than one thing at a time, or understand cause and effect relationships.

And he called them "illegal aliens" a second time. Nowadays, when I hear illegal aliens, I think of the movie "Men in Black."

"Americans voted overwhelmingly in favor of it." Actually, they voted more for you lowering prices than for border control. The sequence was economy, immigration, abortion. For Republican voters, that is. The vote you got was not overwhelming. We have to keep telling you this because you keep using the word mandate as an excuse.

Everyday, I pray that somebody will duct tape Donald to a chair so he'll listen and understand that tariffs are a disguised sales tax. The steel and aluminum tariffs makes sense because China was selling them here below cost to ruin our industry. That's called dumping. That's against international trade laws, specifically ones handled by the World Trade Organization. The tariffs on solar panels didn't make much sense because there weren't any manufacturers in the United States, except one small company. If we use the national infrastructure act and the Chips Act to kickstart the solar cell industry, that would be different. But you're against all that. You've halted funding for infrastructure. So much for trying to be good for business. The only business you want to be successful is your money laundering.

Let me summarize so if Donald is reading this, he might understand. Tariffs not good. Bad. Bigly stupid. Canada, Mexico, friends. China bad. Gulf of America=Wealth Gap. Panama owns Canal. Greenland not for sale. Nazis very, very bad. DEI very, very good. Anti-semitism bad. Islamophobia bad. Guantanomo Bay build stupid. Iron Dome cost too much, not work. Hyde Amendment bad. FEMA don't mess with. Sexes, more the better. DOGE unconstitutional. Foreign aid make friends. No foreign aid, they make friends with enemies. Death penalty read thou shalt not murder. Drill, baby, drill idiotic. Leaving World Health Organization criminal. TikTok stay out of it. Jan.6th pardons impeachable. Paris Agreement very good, important. Regulations, critical to safety. Your censorship bad, bad, bad. 14th Amendment big law. Security clearance, see FBI. Civil rights, very, very good. Flag at full-staff, not deserved. Biden smart. You dumb, corrupt.

Undocumented immigrants, not illegal aliens. Mandate is where you go with Elon Musk at night. A national emergency is hurricanes or fires. Pumping billions of gallons into the Central Valley will flood farms and leave them nothing for the summer. You just can't make stuff up because you think you're the smartest person in the world, when you're not, not by a long shot.

I thought I was done, but Donald wasn't done.

For Groundhog Day, he had to remind us of his greatness, and immense intelligence.

The "Tariff Lobby". Sounds like a hotel's entrance. Oh, it's those drit-dratted globalists who understand how tariffs work.

"RIPOFF OF AMERICA" by "TRADE, CRIME, AND POISONOUS DRUGS." The justification trifecta. This empowers any action desired. So far he hasn't threatened invasion of Canada, Mexico or China.

Umm, we owe the $36 trillion to Canada, Mexico and China? Guess so. "TRILLIONS OF DOLLARS IN SUBSIDIZING OTHER COUNTRIES." He said it twice. It must be true.

Why do "other countries pay a small fraction of the cost of what USA citizens pay for Drugs"? Because we allow our big pharmacy companies to get away with mooching off of us. Joe Biden capped insulin at $35 a month and lowered the price Medicare recipients paid for a dozen others, with more on the way, and you rescinded that executive order so we have to pay more. What a moron.

"GOLDEN AGE OF AMERICA!" Because he's the president. No other reason.

Then, "WILL THERE BE SOME PAIN? YES, MAYBE (AND MAYBE NOT!)" You're already a pain in the ass. Oh, you're talking about price of everything going up. You're doing great so far in making your promises come true. Wasn't making prices for everything coming down one of your biggest campaign promises?

It'll be worth the price that we have to pay for you being the United States' stupidest president ever. Because you say so. This isn't going to cost you anything in your pocketbook. It's everyone else that has to pay for your insanity.

"A COUNTRY THAT IS NOW BEING RUN WITH COMMON SENSE." This is the same guy who thought that everyone understood that he was an expert in helicopters. Common sense told him that the helicopter pilot was instantly at fault. The more we see of you Donald, the more we realize that in your case, common sense isn't all that common.

"THE RESULTS WILL BE SPECTACULAR!!!" That's maybe the first thing you said that is true. The results will be spectacularly bad. You're ready to throw us into a recession then a depression that hasn't been seen in 100 years. You can be real proud of that, Donald.

But, that still wasn't the end of it. He had to do one more garbled brain missive. This time it was Canada alone in the crosshairs.

Give me a time frame for the hundreds of billions of dollars subsidizing Canada.

"We don't need anything they have." How about common sense? You've left that on the bargaining table.

Oil (or, whatever you mean by energy), Cars and lumber. You think that's all Canada is to us? Let's give you one for instance. It's cheaper to buy drugs from Canada than in our own country. That's why Biden did his executive order to make Medicare capable of negotiating for lower prices.

"Without this massive subsidy, Canada ceases to exist." There is no way that one country subsidizes another. The only thing you could be talking about would be a trade deficit. So say it. Trade deficit. A trade deficit is our own fault.

Because of a trade deficit, Canada should become our 51st state. There is no one in Canada who thinks this is a good idea. Making them a "Cherished" 51st state still doesn't quite cut it. They're quite pissed at you for imposing a 25% tariff for no reason at all other than your bloated ego.

He finishes off with his Canadian greatest hits. Lower taxes. Only if you make more than $150,000 a year.

Better military protection. A country without enemies, like we seem to be creating every day, with you in charge, doesn't need us.

And if they bow down to you, "NO TARIFFS!" Impose tariffs, then give them only one way out. Becoming the 51st state. Are you trying to make them an offer they can't refuse, like Don Corleone? Mob boss logic is what we've come to expect from you.

What you need to be worrying about is what they will do in return for your stupidity and ignorance.

Again, Donald. Tariffs bad. Canada good. Friend. Nice people. Good healthcare system. Trade not a problem.

You're only a legend in your own mind. That's if you had one.

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