Posted on 06/09/2018 5:33:09 AM PDT by EyesOfTX
Today’s Campaign Update (Because The Campaign Never Ends)
Godspeed, Charles Krauthammer – I read Dr. Charles Krauthammer’s letter on Friday with feelings fondness and sadness. I’ve been a big fan of his writing – and later of his commentary on the Fox All-Star panel discussions – for at least 30 years now, so the news that he has only a few more weeks to live in this life is something I find to be profoundly sad, although I’ve had a feeling for months now that this news was coming.
Dr. Krauthammer won a Pulitzer Prize in 1985 for his commentaries, back when Pulitzer Prizes were awarded for actual, outstanding contributions to journalism and not for the sort of fake news hackery for which several CNN employees were awarded a few weeks ago. Krauthammer won that Prize for good reason: He was the best in the business, and remained so for many years afterwards.
I did not always agree with Krauthammer – he was a notorious #NeverTrump adherent throughout 2015 and 2016, after all – but I always looked forward to his viewpoint, because he was unerringly able to make his case through supportable logic and wit. Other #NeverTrumpers whose names I won’t name could learn much from the Doctor in this regard.
Bret Baier and his occasional fill-in hosts have had a difficult time finding adequate replacements for Krauthammer, and the All-Star panel will never be the same without him. Unlike many of the others who try unsuccessfully to fill the void, the Doctor was always able to disagree without resorting to hyperbole or disagreeable tactics.
Logic, facts and wit were all he ever needed. He was one of a kind, and will be extremely missed.
He’s good enough, he’s sexy enough, and doggonit, the ladies like him. – Disgraced ex-Senator Al Franken received some defending he probably didn’t want, given the source, on Friday when disgraced ex-President and lifelong woman abuser Bill Clinton decided to weigh in on his case. Somehow I’m thinking Franken would have preferred for ol’ Slick to just leave bad enough alone. Just a guess.
Sacre’ bleu – he really means that ‘America first’ nonsense? – Oh, golly, our G7 “allies” are all verklempt at President Donald Trump over the import tariffs he has gone about implementing recently. The President was singularly unperturbed about all the bitter scorn he was getting from the Angela Merkels and boy leaders of France and Canada, repeatedly expressing his certainty that those countries and others will ultimately come around and negotiate more equitable tariff deals rather than simply endure the reciprocal tariffs the U.S. has recently implemented
Most of these other countries – France, Germany, Great Britain, Italy and Japan – have enjoyed essentially being on the U.S. dole since the end of World War II. The U.S. started what has become a 70+ year massive transfer of wealth to those nations with the implementation of the Marshall Plan in 1948, and has expanded on that initial $13 billion outlay ever since.
President after president and congress after congress have agreed to enact one-sided tariff policies that overwhelmingly advantage these other nations’ economies, adding Canada and Mexico to this wealth-and-jobs-draining mix in the mid-1990s with the NAFTA deal and adding China in more recently for good measure. Our country has, for what were initially valid reasons, also relieved the Europeans and Canada from the burden of having to truly pay for their own military defense, spending hundreds of billions of dollars every year by having our own military personnel bases, missiles and other tools of war stationed on Eastern Europe and Japan even today, long after the Soviet Union disappeared and the economies of Germany and Japan recovered to world power stature.
To make matters even more absurd, Barack Obama and John Kerry chose to elevate this massive transfer of U.S. wealth to these other countries by committing our country to the heinous Paris Climate Accords, which were every bit the massive fraud on the American public that the Iran deal was. These Accords had literally nothing to do with “climate” and everything to do with transferring trillions more U.S. dollars to the other signatory nations over the course of 15 years.
Want proof? As of today, the United States is the only nation earth that is not a signatory to this fraudulent agreement, and is also the only nation on earth that has actually met and exceeded its emissions reductions “goals” under the deal. Of course all those other countries are upset – they were all looking forward to getting their slice of that gigantic pie.
So it’s no surprise that Merkel and Macron and the Boy Prince of Canada are bitter: They see a money spigot that has flowed from the United States of America for decades beginning to slow and have no idea how they’re going to tell their citizens that their economies are going to have to bear the cost of fielding real militaries and pay their own ways. They’re like a couple of parents who have sponged off their rich uncle for decades suddenly having to face telling their 30 year-old kids they’re going to have to move out of the house because they’ve been cut off by Uncle Sam.
But here’s the big secret the fake news media in this country won’t tell you: President Trump isn’t looking to cut all these spoiled children states off completely – he never promised that. He’s simply looking for concessions from them that are substantial enough to give him the ability to keep his campaign promise of negotiating a “better deal for America.”
Canada is a great example: The Canadian government has for many years shipped Chinese goods into the U.S. tariff-free under NAFTA due to a specific exemption in that treaty. All the Boy Prince has to do is concede on that inherently unfair provision and the rest of NAFTA will remain largely intact. The other countries in the G7 have their own inherently unfair tariff provisions that are unreasonable and should be conceded in order to avoid an outright trade war that benefits no one.
It isn’t 1948 anymore – if Italy’s economy is still a wreck, the United States has no responsibility for that. If Germany has idiotically assumed the societal burden of importing more than a million Muslim refugees into its country, that was not America’s decision. If England’s economy is struggling under the growing burdens of creeping fascim, America did not do that. Sorry.
These other leaders dislike President Trump because, unlike most of his post-WWII predecessors, he refuses to smile and keep up the globalist lie. He’s exposing them for the leaches they have long been, and won’t be giving in. They all know this, they know the difficulties this new reality will cause them at home, and really have no idea how they’re going to deal with it all.
America First. Finally, a U.S. President who means that when he says it. These other national leaders never anticipated it.
Just another day of Trump putting America first.
That is all.
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Nicely said.
....after 8 years of Odungo kissing butt and acting like a prayer rug...they gotta get use to the new sheriff.
The problem for the four European countries there...if they want to talk economics or trade....they can’t. They gave up their rights to the EU. Only the EU can speak to trade. It’s going the same way for the other dozen topics. There’s no basic reasons to carry the G7 on as it is. You might as well change it to the US, EU, Japan, South Korea, Russia and China.
Great post!
I sooooooooooo agree with it!
Go Trump!
And Melania!!
Excellent analysis, DB, and touching tribute to Charles Krauthammer.
Thanks for posting it, EoT!
Those goofballs just got themselves banned for spamming FR threads. Not sure that it speaks well of you to that you source them yourself.
The next few Federal elections will determine if the American people wish to maintain their distinct nation and culture or wish to become a part of a globalist confederation. It would appear that at this point most Democrats are socialist and globalist. Most Republicans are capitalist and nationalist. The stakes are high.
Nor should he be. He towers over them in every way: intellectually, morally, physically, spiritually--in every way. Not only do they hate him for it, but they can't understand it.
There was natural selection in The Great Migration to America. The smart ones got the hell out of there.
HOW FITTING THAT THIS G7 "SUMMIT" COMES JUST THREE DAYS AFTER D-DAY!
HOW FITTING THAT THE EUROPEAN "LEADERS" ARE LOST IN MADNESS!
Excellent post. Prayers for Charles K and his family. Also for Pres Trump at the G7 and in Singapore.
Really nice article!
Good god, who cares.
btt
Hear! Hear! Tariffs are a negotiating tool, that’s all. They do have a long term negative impact; I’ve bookmarked a few articles to that effect. But we “hired” a Negotiator in Chief to undo the wreckage of decades of bad deals. I’m willing to go with what PDJT is doing.
Fixed.
NO.THEY.DON'T.GLOBALBOY.
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