Sunday, February 16, 2025

All are vulnerable.

All are vulnerable.

Except for the rich.

By Keith Thomas

2/2/2025, 2 pages

“They said, ‘he will start a war’. I’m not going to start a war; I’m going to stop wars.”  Donald Führer Trump[1]

Trump started a Trade War with Canada, Mexico, and China on Saturday, Feb 1st.

I think that things could come apart faster than the MAGA Christian Nationalist Project 2025 envisioned.

 

Who will hardship affect the most?

            As the Führer’s Trade War against the nations that used to be our allies begins it behooves us to think about who will be affected the most. Who will feel the most pain?

            Multibillionaires?

Regular billionaires?

            Multimillionaires?

            Regular millionaires?

            Upper middle class?

            Middle class?

            The poor?

            Ah yes, the poor. There we go. Like seniors living only with Social Security income. That’s who the MAGA and the Christian Nationalist Project 2025 will inflict the most pain upon. Like Jesus said, Let the little children and the poor suffer. Hm, that doesn’t sound correct, does it? Well, get used to it. It’s the new Trump MAGA Republican Jesus. The poor are on the front lines in the trade war.

            The poor are the people that the Führer Trump thinks are “low class.”[2] They are beneath him. Waaaaay beneath him. He didn’t have poor people or his MAGA supporters with him at his inauguration. He was surrounded by his own kind.

Paying bills and buying groceries is already a daily struggle for the poor. And there are 40 million of them. Higher food prices will mean less food purchased to eat. Higher prices will cause people to decide between food and rent. Will they be able to afford gas for the drive to their minimum wage jobs? Parents will go hungry to feed their kids. Parents won’t be able to feed their kids.

Health care?

Fuhgeddaboudit!

Will the Trade War last long?

            I wish I had an answer to that question.

            Trump negotiated the current trade agreement with Mexico and Canada that we were operating under.[3] Evidently, he did a shitty job. He wants to expand the Trade War with our European allies.[4]

            I belonged to a labor union when I worked in a factory. We went through a couple of strikes. People were usually asking within a couple of days when it would be over. I would tell them that it would take a couple of weeks for the dust to settle before the opposing factions started talking in earnest. The company wanted to first test our resolve and see how many people crossed picket lines to keep on working. One strike lasted 49 days and the other 69.

            Obviously, we’re breaking new ground here. Whereas President Biden inherited a tanked economy from Trump, Trump inherited a good economy with the exception of troublesome inflation that was coming down. If this Trade War lasts more than a month it’s going to take years to undo the economic and reputational damage done to America. Did you notice that Führer Trump went after the Chinese Communists easier than the countries that used to be our allies?

            In order to stop Trump MAGA Republicans will have to first find their spines, morality, and integrity. Then Congress would have to overrule Trump. I don’t see that happening. Do you?

            The easiest way out of this would be for Trump just to declare a victory, say that all the nations capitulated and gave him everything that he asked for. Corporate media will back him up and his cult will believe whatever their master tells them. Also,

It will be Biden’s and DEI’s fault.

Whhhaaaaat?

            As if starting a Trade War wasn’t enough.

Just in case you missed it in the fire hose of chaos that is emanating from the Fuhrer Trump’s administration Co-President Musk now has access to the Social Security Administration’s data on Americans as well as the distribution system for checks.[5] MAGA fascists can now target specific individuals. Yes, Musk. Cut off a few Social Security checks and people will come around or starve.

Whichever comes first.

[1] https://www.skynews.com.au/world-news/united-states/donald-trump-pledges-to-stop-wars-following-spectacular-election-victory/video/3df2e98138a9cb28f005c353c029a070

[2] https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-election-2020/trump-mob-capitol-riots-poor-low-class-b1785099.html

[3] https://apnews.com/article/222da26d3fe441dc0afca4194addfc6f

[4] https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-threatens-tariffs-european-union-trade-deficit-2003998

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