By Michael Woyton
Don’t like the price of eggs? Raise chickens in your own backyard. Don’t want measles? Use vitamin A supplements. Worried about Russia possibly affecting this country through cyber ops? Let’s pause all domestic planning which might prevent that.
These are “solutions” from current administration officials to problems we are facing now in the United States.
While we have real concerns, there seems to be no one in this administration who actually cares what we think.
Least of all President Donald J. Felon.
There is apparent no one in his entourage who cares enough about the American public to confront him about his boneheaded scheme to start of tariff war with Canada and Mexico. Even the Wall Street Journal editorial board calls it dumb.
The grifter-in-chief went through with his threat yesterday to slap 25 percent tariffs on Canada and Mexico and 20 percent on China.
The president’s defense of the tariffs — which he is unwilling or too incompetent to admit will come out of the pocketbooks of Americans — is that “companies could avoid them if they set up shop in the United States,” per the New York Times.
Here’s a question: How are companies going to avoid tariffs — again, the companies DON’T PAY THE TARIFFS — by setting up shop in the U.S. without the American consumers being hit financially if and until the companies can physically build businesses here?
The golfer-in-chief ran on bringing down the prices of goods. So far that hasn’t happened and doesn’t seem likely.
How’s that working out so far?
Well, stocks took a tumble Tuesday, wiping out all gains since Election Day for the S&P 500, the Associated Press reported, following “a steep sell-off Monday.”
“Worries about tariffs raising consumer prices and reigniting inflation have been weighing on both the economy and Wall Street,” the AP said.
I’m afraid to check my 401(k)s, aren’t you?
Market in Europe also fell sharply, while there were more modest declines in Asia.
Add to all this, the former Social Security Administration commissioner Martin O’Malley said cuts by Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency — or DOGE — “could result in the ‘collapse’ of the Social Security system ‘within the 30 to 90 days.’,” The Hill reported.
O’Malley, who led the SSA from December 2023 to November 2024 under the Biden administration, said the Trump/Musk administration’s attempts to cut the workforce “will lead to the departure of vital staff and threaten the agency’s fundamental operations.”
The adjudicated rapist campaigned on not touching Social Security or Medicaid, but lo and behold, he now supports the GOP budget plan which calls for deep cuts to Medicaid.
Oh, and Saturday, the mayor of Mar-a-Lago issued an executive order telling federal agencies to begin cutting down national forests for the lumber. Our national forests.
We have someone in the White House who doesn’t give a damn about anyone but himself. He certainly doesn’t care about the Americans who voted for him — reminder: it wasn’t a mandate or even a majority the total votes — and he certainly doesn’t care about the rest of us.
He doesn’t care that withholding aid and weapons from Ukraine will almost certainly kill more citizens of that country and reward a murderous Russian dictator who will likely set his sights elsewhere in Europe.
He doesn’t care that cutting off funding, then promising to restart it, but then not actually restarting the funding through the U.S. Agency for International Development will lead to preventable deaths from starvation, AIDS/HIV, polio, Ebola and more all around the globe.
But, yeah, he’s staying out of jail, and he will tell us how wonderful everything is that he’s doing during tonight’s joint session to Congress.
Americans — and others around the world — are under attack from this monster and those who blindly follow him.
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