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The First and Last Hurrah [1]
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Date: 2025-03-06
By David Glenn Cox
Orange Fidel gives his verbose address to the upper Baboon Party. Championing successes that never really were. Encapsulated in a highlight reel of “I am so great.” It was the highest mountain ever there was. On the coldest darkest night, ever there was. And I, as the greatest there ever was. The monkeys bray high in the trees at night and grow quiet during the day. The failures fall like rain.
Shady Vance insults our allies…again. Shady beating his chest and flapping his gums denigrates British and French troops. Then says, “Oh, not you guys. Some other unnamed Europeans, like the British or the French.” Meanwhile, the mouth that made Milwaukee famous challenges China to fight. Remember how there were reservations about giving Pete “Spuds” Hegseth the job? Yeah, like that. “Spuds” apparently after tipping a few, tells a reporter the US can take China with one tied hand tied behind its arm. The Chinese Foreign minister responds with, anytime, anyplace, anywhere Bubba! Fists, Kung Fu or nuclear weapons! The other real bad fuck up you never even heard about from your free news media.
Hmm? World War III with China or Cat dials 911 to save owner. I’d go with the cat story.
There is a backstory as well. In 1931, when Japan invaded Manchuria. Long ago when America only supported the victims and not the aggressors. The Administration placed a series of increasingly harsh sanctions on Japan, finally culminating in cutting off all oil sales to Japan. Without that oil Japan would be in a serious world of hurt. It left them with a choice of knuckling under or going to war. They went to war because they felt they had no other choice.
Ever since Covid 19, the Chinese economy has been suffering through a 2008, style real estate collapse. Manufacturers are fleeing China. China has breached the one China, two systems cannon with a new security law that puts people in danger of being arrested whenever the police say so. Then Covid hurt their customer’s supply chains. The Baboon’s Administration had already placed 10% tariffs on a struggling partner. Here! Here’s an extra 15%! Just because! Drowning? Here, let me throw you an anchor. “Ha, ha, ha, ha!” See if we care! We’re America and we’re back baby!
Historically and routinely, the worse the domestic situation gets in China. The more the Chinese will redirect public energy towards the perceived slights by foreigners. The more the China suffers domestically, the more Taiwan pisses them off. The Chinese have been holding provocative naval exercises in places like off the coast of Australia. For the same reason a rattlesnake rattles before it strikes.
China announces a 7% increase in military spending. Europe is arming too and stocks for European military contractors are soaring. The world prepares for war as “Spuds” says, “Oh yeah? We can take China with one back tied behind our hand! “hick” Come on, put em up! You don’t scare me!”
The Chinese economy hasn’t grown in over two years. The old business axiom says, “either you’re getting bigger or you’re getting smaller. The Chinese economy is based on growth and without that growth, can’t go on. Through the bottom of a beer mug it looks like simple superfluous tariffs. (So what?) But to the Chinese it looks like an attempt at destabilizing the Chinese economy. Holding a knife to their throats and threatening to push them off the ledge. Saddam’s claims of slant drilling!
In less than 24 hrs., Orange Fidel backtracks when his 25% tariff threatens to destroy the American auto market. Excuse me, but didn’t anyone spitball this idea around the room first? Run it up the flagpole discussing the possible side effects? No? Not really? So how much do you trust their handling of China relations?
Have you noticed? Secretary of Suck, Marko Polio becomes the incredible shrinking man. Every time I see him on TV, he looks a little bit smaller. His shoulders slumped and his clothes getting larger, his job about as necessary as an Amish TV repairman.
Republican Congressman Ben Cline proclaims Trump and DOGE are doing just what the voters wanted! Ben didn’t hold a town hall. Instead, he sent an office flunky to hold an “Office Hour.” So, all of you hundreds of people who showed up here hoping to speak to your elected representative. You can just go on home now. Anyone needing help getting a passport? Does your boy wanna go to West Point?
The flunky agreed to speak to constituents five at a time upstairs in a private room. It was all downhill from there on. Boos, cat calls and even threats! A veteran shouted, “I took an oath against all enemies foreign and domestic! And Trump is a domestic enemy!” At that announcement, the room cheered! One person asked for a show of hands. “How many of you are Democrats getting paid?” the crowd laughed. I wondered about that myself. How do angry Republicans feel about being called George Soros paid Democrats? That could open some eyes.
Despite Orange Fidel’s victory speech from his tire swing the reality says this whole thing is coming apart fast. Plans to fire 80,000 VA employees. That’s why we need serious focus on history in our public schools. There must be half a dozen Roman Emperors who learned the hard way not to fuck around with veterans. The emperor promises, if elected, more money for the soldiers. Reneges on the deal and Rome gets a new emperor who promptly gives the soldiers more money.
$5.00 a bushel corn now only $4.50 times 100,000 bushels. The agricultural economy is coming apart at the seams. Bad now, with the potential of turning toxic on the horizon before spring. Will Caterpillar and John Deere sell more combines this year? Will Chevy sell more cars?
The plan was always bluster and bum’s rush. To fire as many employees as fast as possible to destabilize the situation before anyone could stop them, but it was a bridge too far. One toke over the line. Just six weeks into an Administration and it’s all downhill from here. The first and last hurrah all in the same speech.
Agricultural futures, down. Industrial futures, down. Employment futures, down. Stock Market down. Our only allies in the world are Israel and Russia. The world convulses over Donald Trump. The most hated figure on the world stage since Adolph Hitler.
Squeaker of the house Little Timmy Phallus pseudonym has a nervous Republican Congressional plan to avoid a government shutdown. A continuing resolution until September. (No cuts till Brooklyn) Waving the white flag of defeat. The margins are too small to push across wholesale reshuffling and abandonment of the American people. And, in an all or nothing plan if you can’t have it all, you get nothing.
“No country is more than three days from Revolution.”
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