Donald Trump says China has been a “ripping us off.“ In my thinking, being “ripped off” is not getting or paying an exorbitant price for a product.
Americans buy from China, Viet Nam, Indonesia, and Mexico because we don’t get ripped off! We get what we pay for! It’s “Economics 101”: The seller whose price is lowest makes the sale. Americans buy Barbie dolls, MAGA caps, and Donald’s Bibles “Made in China” because we can’t meet or beat their price.
The Dangerous Case of Donald Trump: 37 Psychiatrists and Mental Health Experts Assess a President—Updated and Expanded with New Essays (in 2019) . . . concludes:
“President Donald Trump is dangerously mentally ill and that he presents a clear and present danger to the nation. . . . From the trauma people have experience under the Trump administration to the cult-like characteristic of his followers, he has created unprecedented mental health consequences across our nation and beyond. It’s not in our heads. It’s in his.”
These experts agree that Donald Trump exhibits classic symptoms of Narcissistic Personality Disorder (NPD). The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM5) defines NPD as, “a persistent manner of grandiosity, a continuous desire for admiration, along with a lack of empathy. It starts in early adulthood and occurs in a range of situations, as signified by the existence of any 5 of the next 9 standards,
That’s 9 for 9 folks: Narcissistic Personality Disorder on steroids! We don’t need the President of the America Psychiatric Association to make this call!
DSM5 does not use “Malignant.” Campbell’s Psychiatric Dictionary describes Malignant Narcissism as combining characteristics of Narcissistic and Antisocial Personality Disorders, making the patient not only delusional but potentially dangerous!
Donald J. Trump’s ever-expanding litany of delusional thinking, ill-conceived acts and policies, factual inaccuracies, and outright lies pose hazards to The United States of America and our World!
Some alien people respect America’s law, submit documents, follow procedures, pledge allegiance, and become citizens.
Others break our law, illegally enter America, and must be deported to their native country.
This said, when Trump boots out the brown-skinned illegals, who will slaughter America’s beef, hogs, and chickens? Who will pick its oranges, apples, cherries, and strawberries? Who will re-roof its houses and build its fences? Who will make its hotel and motel beds, vacuum carpets, and clean bathrooms? At its recycling facilities, who will stand, overnight, at conveyor belts, sorting metal, glass, plastic, wood, cardboard, and paper?
Who will do the heavy lifting and grunt work Americans are too spoiled or lazy to do?
Another issue: Who will pay Trump‘s tariffs—25%, 50%? Chinese producers or American consumers?
Declining a position in Donald Trump’s former Justice Department, erstwhile Trump acolyte, conservative lawyer George Conway III, called the President elect’s earlier administration a “shit show in a dumpster fire.”
Friend, we ain’t smelt nothing yet!
As Donald Trump grows increasingly unhinged, parroting Hitler—“vermin,” “poisoning the blood”—I take refuge in an unshakeable conviction that, in the end, Wisdom, Truth, Compassion, and Love will prevail over Ignorance, Superstition, Fear, and Anger.
Donald Trump vows, if reelected, to use the “Army“—i.e. Martial Law!—to roundup his “enemy within”: Adam Schiff, Nacy Pelosi, Kamala Harris, et. al. What then?
Am I an “enemy within”? Will you? Will we be sent to a Concentration Camp, or worse?
His pal Vladimir jails and murders opponents.
I’ve posted this before, but it can’t be overstated:
“The way I see it, if we don’t all march in step, if we don’t do as we’re told, if we don’t follow our leaders blindly, there’s no hope of saving our freedom.”
Major Frank Burns in M*A*S*H
CNN Business reports, September 24, in an open letter “More than 400 economists and former high-ranking US policy makers are endorsing Vice President Kamala Harris and her version of the American economy.” The centerpiece of this consensus is, former President Donald Trump’s proposed tariffs would deal a staggering blow to America’s economy.
Econ. 101: Producers do not pay tariffs! Consumers pay tariffs! Donald’s National Sales Tax would cost middle-class American households from $2000 to $6000 a year.
The folly in Trumps scheme is no-brainer but, considering its source, not surprising.
I’m puzzled and, frankly, alarmed! Donald Trump appears to enjoy widespread support among members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
Would someone please explain how ethically scrupulous Mormons, of all people, can respect a morally bankrupt, misogynistic, xenophobic, convicted rapist/felon, and pathological liar; ol’ “grab ‘em by the pussy” Donald?
What am I missing? Please enlighten me.
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