"The Earth and everything that's in it": February 2, 2025

Wednesday, February 5, 2025

naïve

This is how a naïve-teenage-high-school-spoiled-rich-BOY negotiates with naïve-impressionable-teenage-girls.

Trump's recent election has brought a new seemingly "naïve-teenage-boy" to a free-trading-world's high-school-party?

We are ALL going to learn something from this hopefully. Something those of us that watched "Ferris Bueller's Day Off" and / or did not skip school like Ferris and Trump already knew.

Trump is acting like the naive teenage GIRL wanting an immediate call back for a date after a high-school party.

Trump makes naive teenage GIRL threats to get call backs, "Call me or I am cutting you off forever from free trade with XYZ% tariff... maybe "sex" too, lol.

Nothing gets accomplished with or during the first-call back in high school other than assuaging teenage ego, i.e., Trump's . Trump's version of the naïve-teenage-high-school-spoiled-rich-kid girl has gotten THREE call backs! WOW ☹☹☹👎👎👎.

Trump has gotten TWO sophisticated call backs from CREDIBLE negotiators, Mexico and Canada.

And a VERY credible response from China e.g., "China launches limited tariffs after Trump imposes sweeping new levies - https://www.reuters.com/world/us-tariffs-chinese-imports-take-effect-after-trump-reprieves-canada-mexico-2025-02-04/ "

Getting three call backs after a high-school party is a very POSITIVE result for ANY "naïve-teenage-high-school-GIRL." Trump has yet to reach a "real date" without the unwarranted "rich kid" bias of his too spoiled youth. Trump has NEVER negotiated anything in the REAL WORLD without his naïve-teenage-high-school-spoiled-rich-kid backing. The want-to-be naïve-teenage-high-school-spoiled-rich-kid bias, the MAGA crowd so adores.

You do not think, that Mexico and Canada will come back with resentful "slap-back" tariffs too?

Be assured Mexico and Canada, just like China, will have credible "tit for tat" "slap-back" tariffs for products that only ADD to the inflation the naïve-teenage-high-school-spoiled-rich-kid Trump initiated.

The United States consumer will pay, not only for Trump's "naïve-teenage-high-school-spoiled-rich-kid" initiated tariffs but the "slap-back" tariffs from Trump's new trade war enemies from multiple continents as reciprocated upon the UNITED STATES.

And ALL North, Central and South "TRUE Americans" will pay for Trump's naïve-teenage-high-school-spoiled-rich-kid anti-NAFTA trade war. NAFTA was not perfect and never would be, but it is light years ahead of the naïve-teenage-high-school-spoiled-rich-kid tariffs Trump now proposes.

We need to be more like the European Union and less like white-supremacist-NAZIS. Is the European Union perfect, No! Was NAFTA perfect, NO! Can we put a wall to isolate ourselves from the proverbial BROWN masses south or north of our border, NO.

I mean the fictional "naïve-teenage-high-school-boy" Ferris Bueller may have missed the lesson on Hawley-Smoot Tariff Act, but be assured the counseled leaders of China, Mexico, Canada, Europe, and others ALL got it.

The teenage hope that we can CHARGE ourselves for domestically funded tariffs without inflation DOMESTICALLY -- is too NAÏVE to be even be believed.

Add to that having to pay for the "tit for tat" "slap-back" tariffs reciprocated by our new trade war enemies. I truly think Trump is dumb enough to POSSIBLY believe that loyal MAGA and / or his upper 1% of the 1% SUPER RICH tax cut recipients WILL EAT the inflated tariff cost and will not allow inflation, lol. Trump believes only Democrats can cause inflation.

Inflation is INEVITABLE!!!!! Inflation is INEVITABLE!!!!! Inflation is INEVITABLE!!!!! Inflation is INEVITABLE!!!!! Inflation is INEVITABLE!!!!!

Now out of the naïve-teenage-high-school-spoiled-rich-kid side of Trump's lying-sack-of-shit mouth he will say he wants the tariffs for punitive economic reasons ----- WRONG...

I say again WRONG!!!

The naïve-teenage-spoiled-high-school-rich-kid in Trump wants the income from tariffs to pay for more Tax Cuts for the upper 1% of the 1% SUPER RICH. Just like with his 2017 tax cuts, he will be taking from the poor United States tax paying citizens to pay the upper 1% of the 1% SUPER RICH.

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IT SHOULD BE NOTED HERE >>>>>> The last 3 YEARS of Trump's first term "2017 thu 2020 - $9 trillion dollar - "government spending" - on unfunded tax cuts" caused inflation to peak at 9% in 2021.

The Biden/Harris first-11-month response to COVID had little or NO EFFECT on the PEAK 9% ongoing inflation. While the Biden/Harris 37-month response eliminated THE ongoing inflation.

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Trump ignorantly familiarizes himself with a biased view of history without taking any LESSONS learned from it i.e. Andrew Jackson, Richard Nixon and other's Civil Service purges resulted in the Pendleton Civil Service Act of 1883 and Civil Service Reform Act of 1978 (CSRA) AND the Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act (1930) that prolonged the Great Depression (1929 to 1939).

Trump thinks he has the absolutely-immune-power of a king, as jokingly emboldened by Chief Justice John Roberts, oligarchy on the Supreme Court's "unitary executive theory" — giving the president broad Article II absolutely-immune authority over federal government operations. I am presently not sure even the absolutely-immune oligarchy on the Supreme Court is as stupid as they currently look

Now the idiot, would-be-great-mind, anarchist, Steve Bannon may say you can not beat them with reason beat them with ANARCHY. Hit them with three things, ten things, twenty things, at once and you will win with some if not all.

Now this is not how GROWN-UPS negotiate. This is how a naïve-teenage-high-school-spoiled-rich-BOYnegotiates with naïve-impressionable-teenage-girls.

FENTANYL IMPORTS

Now Trump, may FOOL some of his ignorant MAGA crowd by saying he got concessions from Canada, and Mexico for fentanyl imports and/or immigration reform.

On the fentanyl issue I have to agree with China.

The United States' "fentanyl-drug-problem" is a strictly domestic problem.

The United States starting a trade-war with our American NEIGHBORS will not solve our 106-88 year failed drug prohibition. There is a case to be made that the FAILED 18th Amendment to the United States Constitution prohibiting the manufacture, sale, and transportation of alcohol was the start of the United States' FAILURE with drug prohibition (1919). Others may say it started with Harry Anslinger and the Marihuana Tax Act (1937).

Neither alcohol or marijuana are intrinsically immoral. Yes, there are many things that can be used corruptly, but they ALL have non-corrupt uses too. Trying to legally bind people too closely "between a rock and a hard place" is inefficient to say the least. It is just not worth the effort.

Yes, there are always going to be people addicted to sex, alcohol, marijuana, gambling, drugs, overeating and other proverbial vices. There are also always going to be MORE people out there that use eating, sex, alcohol, marijuana, drugs, gambling and other proverbial vices without consequences.

Now does that mean at this point in our evolution we can do without the DEA and the Gaming Commission? NO! We need to prohibit the proverbial "snake oi" and "rigged horse race". And helpfully REGULATE alcohol, marijuana, drugs. gambling and other proverbial vices without consequences.

I feel confident my baby boom peers tried drugs and alcohol. They KNOW that the irrational fear of Harry Anslinger's "Reefer Madness" is laughable. Addiction as an issue is more psychological than access related. Problematic "addiction" rates are stable if not declining as they are made known.

Immigration

As regards Trump's naïve-teenage-high-school-spoiled-rich-kid take on immigration, the non-whites have already taken over the United States. Ask any demographer, there is no denying it in the United States. And non-whites have already OCCURRED in the 8 billion plus world. all you want-to-be-lily-whites live in!!

The idea of a WALL to stop fentanyl and illegal immigration is logistically the stupidest idea ever put forward. An insurmountable wall is not only impossible; you could do much better REALISTICALLY with the Biden plan to add, Judges, courts, border guards and drug detection equipment at the border than waste it on more wall.

Do not kid yourself a wall is not going to be a deterrent to anyone that is willing to walk around it or knock it down or climb. And they will always walk around it, climb it or knock it down.

Do not kid yourself, the standard of living in the United States is not without rival even in non-U.S. parts of the America. In most of America, yes the U.S. standard of living is the best. But the non-U.S. parts of America will not be contained by a WALL.

Now the citizens of the United States have two alternatives. One foolishly try to build a higher wall, which is not physically or figuratively possible. Or two set up a European Union like agreement to spread the wealth.

There is not a loser in all of America, any place in North, Central or South AMERICA can be made into a proverbial "Garden of Eden. And if your naïve-teenage-high-school-spoiled-rich-kid MAGA leader cannot see the profit POTENTIAL. He is the naïve-teenage-high-school-spoiled-rich-kid "fucking moron" everybody knows Trump is.

We can make America GREAT, and I mean all of North, Central, and South America!! There is nothing but PROFIT POTENTIAL in America. It can be done with the "virtually-invisible-hand" of Adam Smith's free trade as legitimately led by popular sentiment with or without the assistance of the United States. America need not be tied to the United States' Banana Republics of its past or the un-representative "dark money" CORRUPT Senate of the United States.

Brazil recently endured an unsuccessful rebellion. They did it much better than the United States did! I am betting Brazil did not have an un-representative "dark money" CORRUPT Senate to overcome.

If the United States ever truly takes on Lincoln's assertion of "a new birth of freedom -- and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth. (Abraham Lincoln, November 19, 1863)

America AT LARGE needs to relearn the United States' original 1776 premise as a new "nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal." And do away with any old-world corruption of the oligarchy-of-Judge-Made-Law and a "un-representative "dark money" CORRUPT Senate" to overcome.

BE AWARE, but do not be afraid, Trump is, at best and at worst, pathetically incompetent and INEFFECTIVE manager / leader!

https://dgjeep.blogspot.com/2025/01/be-aware.html

Trump does not know the name of the country he was or is to be president of...

https://dgjeep.blogspot.com/2025/01/istgtdnk.html

The Judicial sophistry of "absolute immunity" creates "absolute power" to the ABSOLUTE CORRUPTION of We the People's unalienable rights under color of law... the AUDACITY of the INSANITY, ignorance and stupidity in support of a "fantastic or delusional" scenario. The Emperor Has No Clothes.

https://dgjeep.blogspot.com/2024/01/if-that-is-not-absolute-corruption-of.html

The constitutional small "d" undemocratic corrupt "dark money" Senate and Electoral College

https://dgjeep.blogspot.com/2024/01/dark-money-senate.html

Trump is a convicted and diagnosed psychotic criminal, chronic degenerate, liar... a "fucking moron!"

https://dgjeep.blogspot.com/2025/01/be-aware.html

The FACTS of MY case are without question

https://dgjeep.blogspot.com/2022/09/the-facts-of-my-case-are-without.html

Small "d" Un-Democratic "dark money" Senate

https://dgjeep.blogspot.com/2024/01/dark-money-senate.html

This is the ABSOLUTE CORRUPTION of

We the People's intent to establish justice,!!!

https://dgjeep.blogspot.com/2024/01/if-that-is-not-absolute-corruption-of.html