Does anybody here remember the Stallone movie “Judge Dredd”? Remember the scene in which little, wimpy Rob Schneider gets out of prison and goes into his ratbag apartment, and there are all these tough guys shooting out the window? And Schneider wails “What’s going on?!?” And a big mean behemoth turns around and snarls, “Block war little man, block war!”?
The big mean dude with the high tech pea shooter is apparently Trump. Yesterday I wrote a diary chronicling how several world leaders met in Angela Merkel’s office to plot a strategy on how to stand up united against Donald Trump if he gave them any shit at the G20 summit next week. Well, it may end up that what they think, say, or do doesn’t amount to a bowl of piss Jack Daniels if Trump has his way.
According to Axios, there was a meeting held in the Roosevelt room on Monday involving Trump and a batch of his high level ass kissers. In between exercising his wee thumbs, Trump has concocted a sure fire plan for world domination in order to Make America Great Again, a global trade war;
- With more than 20 top officials present, including Trump and Vice President Pence, the president and a small band of America First advisers made it clear they're hell-bent on imposing tariffs — potentially in the 20% range — on steel, and likely other imports.
- The penalties could eventually extend to other imports. Among those that may be considered: aluminum, semiconductors, paper, and appliances like washing machines.
OK, now you gotta remember, this is the guy who thundered to his rabid Trombies that all of these big, beautiful, probably leak-like-a-sievey pipelines would only be allowed to pass through our pristine lands, and under our precious water supplies if they were made with good old fashioned American steel. When it was pointed out to him that this would skyrocket the cost of the pipelines he approved, including the Keystone XL pipeline, he decided, “O-tay, maybe not those ones then, but everything else must be American steel”.
One official in the room said that once the plan was revealed, the vote tally was 3 for and 22 against (Pence and Kushner expressed no opinion). But considering the fact that one of the 3 in favor of the plan was The Mein Dumscheisse, most of the members present left the room thinking that we were probably going to have a trade war shortly.
Why doesn’t it amaze me that it was Wilbur Ross, a political mental paramecium, who came up with this self destructive boondoggle? And Steve Bannon, who was not present to vote, thinks the idea is the bees knees. Everybody else in the room pretty much treated it like a kiss from Typhoid Mary. But the biggest thing that can shock us (as much as we can be shocked anymore by this cabal of nitwits) is the primary reason;
The reason, we're told: Trump's base — which drives more and more decisions, as his popularity sinks — likes the idea, and will love the fight.
Oh, this is rich. Trump is going to plunge the planet into a global game of economic “Risk” in order to impress a bunch of chuckleheads who sort through their bag of Skittles looking for the three or four that will kill them. We now have an administration that apparently decides critical national, international and economic interests based on the decibel level of the applause of a group of social misanthropes wearing MAGA caps to cover the extra hole in their heads.
The main complaint about the trade war wasn’t so much about an economic conflict with China, it was more about the fear that it would spread to allies such as Canada, Mexico, Germany, Japan and the UK. There is one possible little ray of bitter sunshine, if the tariff on steel were to be imposed, it is thought that within hours it would be challenged in court by the US auto manufacturers. That’s a switch, isn’t it? When is the last time you can remember when a huge US business conglomerate was threatening to sue a Republican government trade policy ruling? I love it when they eat their own tails.