Posted on 06/14/2018 5:58:59 AM PDT by Kaslin
As usual, Kurt Schlichter is spot on.
Look at that picture, with Tusk on one end and Juncker on the other. Makes me sick. It’s like globalists think we all exist to serve them.
This is the best article I’ve read in a long. Thanks for sharing it :)
Trump is draining the swamp and the Washington insiders don’t like it.
Americans do and that frustrates the nattering nabobs of elite negativism.
America is being MGA without their help.
Brilliant article by someone who brings some originality to the table. I love the passion and anger he allows to come through. It’s about time our side gets angry and really fights back.
Yes!
It seems to me BMW and Volkswagen and Mercedes could shield themselves from tariffs if they made more vehicles in America.
I had not realized the EU tariff on cars was 10% while the US rate was only 2.5%. What a chitty deal. That never should have been agreed to.....AND we provide for those deadbeats’ defense too? Sheesh what a ripoff. I could see it in 1950 when they were picking through the rubble but such indulgence should have ended a LONG time ago.
For the last several decades, we have.
Here’s to changing that!
As a Trump deplorable and cult member, I applaud everything author Kurt Schlichter wrote in this article. We who voted for Mr. Trump are against the inside the beltway, lobbyist money and Deep State control of our government. President Trump has made some good inroads on the problem and we have to support him in the 11/18 midterms to keep the reforms coming to MAGA
For years, we have tried to wean them off the gravy train with mixed success. Japan and the United Kingdom, in particular, have stepped up to the plate to provide the cost of their own defense and our cost of maintaining troops there to the extent that is is cheaper to station an air force wing in Scotland or Okinawa at a lower cost than keeping them stateside. Germany and South Korea make some contributions as well. The rest of the world, not so much.
Just about all of them have manufacturing bases which are subsidized (or at least not kneecapped) by their governments. While that is happening less since Trump came to town and pushed through the corporate tax cuts, we also need to keep in mind that even with those tax cuts all we really did was put our rates in the same range as the rest of the world.
That's exactly what they believe.
Remember when Cheney said "Deficits don't matter"? That was one of the few (if ever) times an insider let the truth slip out. Now, why would he make that claim? After all, don't governments, like people and businesses have to live within a (somewhat) limited budget constrained by revenue (taxes) and expenditures (military, medical, welfare, etc)? And the answer is ... no.
In reality, the Federal reserve creates money from US and other debt issuance. Debt is issued to purchase goods and services, including foreign imports. So, who would you rather be: Saudi Arabia, Germany, China and Japan all taking in $trillions of IOUs from the USA, or the USA loading up our national debt in order to purchase practically anything we desire without restraint? The answer is: everyone wins under the Bretton Woods system (that made the US dollar the reserve currency). Price doesn't matter, because it's all just electronic bits stored in a ledger, that at the end of the day, will never be paid.
By introducing tariffs, trade agreements, unrestrained production and international competitiveness, it threatens to undermine the entire system of "don't ask, don't tell" perpetual financial motion game. So, since Trump obviously knows exactly what I just wrote above, the really big BIG question is why is he pursuing a course of action that threatens to endanger global peace & prosperity?
And the answer is, Trump - along with his advisers - has probably been able to detect incipient cracks in the system that could bring it all crashing down. So, in that case, the smart thing to do if you think a flood may be coming is to stock up on sandbags. I think Trump is signalling - to anyone paying attention - that the circus act is in danger of ending. In that case, if we revert back to the traditional equation of production = wealth, then the USA better get on its horse and begin preparing for the time where we can once again stand alone - if need be - and crank out production.
If you get what I wrote above, then it's pretty clear why anyone who knows what's going on and is part of the system would never want to tell an outsider ie normal civilian. For one, how many people could even understand? It probably takes an IQ of between 115 just get the gist of it, and 125 to become fully conversant. Secondly, why let anyone in on an extremely lucrative game? That's why they're elites - their family connections, business relationships, etc have crafted this extremely cozy and comfortable life style.
Hell, 90% of Congress believes that within two years of first setting foot in the Hallowed Halls.
Donald Trump is a disruptor. He is disrupting the fat, arrogant, and corrupt elite.
It’s why the media Hollywood and the good old boys in D.C. hate him their gravy train wheels are falling off.
Evil is as evil does.
bump for later
There are many moral rules inculcated among the commoners to keep them in line. Concepts like law, fairness, equality are reinforced by religious maxims that promise a final accounting.
But the elites are atheists; they know they will never be punished. So, they act like the predators they are, taking what they want & forcing losers to eat the sh!t sandwich.
Every couple of generations, the elites push a little too far and the commoners rebel. This cycle is endless - it appears Trump is the recent populist twist in the US. The situation in UK makes one wonder if history will repeat there as well.
My message is to not get caught up in the emotion, but to figure out where one stands. If you can see how the game is played, then it becomes easier to recognize the pieces.
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