Trading One Disaster for Another
Until I read a number of articles in The New American, I assumed that the new trade treaty we’ve worked out with Mexico and Canada, USMCA, was a big improvement over the earlier NAFTA deal. But, apparently, if it is better, it is barely noticeable.
Until I read a number of articles in The New American, I assumed that the new trade treaty we’ve worked out with Mexico and Canada, USMCA, was a big improvement over the earlier NAFTA deal. But, apparently, if it is better, it is barely noticeable.
According to Alex Newman, “The Deep State’s globalist plan for what insiders refer to as the ‘New World Order’ — basically, a global government controlled by themselves — begins with submerging the sovereignty of nation-states into regional ‘orders.’ These are better understood as regional governments built using ‘free trade’ deals as the foundation, with the European Union serving as the premier example. How do we know this is the plan? Because top Deep State globalists have said so publicly and repeatedly. And because that is the exact strategy being pursued openly.”
He concludes with: “Eventually, these regional orders will be interwoven into an overlapping patchwork of multilateral regimes on the road to creating a truly global authority, perhaps under the United Nations.”
Having neither written “The Art of the Deal” nor even having read it, I never claimed to be an expert when it comes to trade policy. But it never made sense to me why we had to enter into trade alliances. Would Mexico, Canada and the other nations of the world not want to trade with us, as they had in the past, unless we joined some sort of multi-national trading club?
I happen to trust President Trump to do what he believes best for America, but he has made business mistakes in the past or he wouldn’t have racked up all those bankruptcies. I just hope he isn’t flying by the seat of his pants or listening to the globalists sprinkled throughout his administration when it comes to what doesn’t really sound like free market capitalism.
In the early part of the 20th century, Jewish mothers would often have glasses placed on their male children when they were having their pictures taken because they were convinced the phony glasses made their little boys look scholarly. (“His eyes went bad from all the reading.”)
I keep wondering if it was his mother who convinced little Chucky Schumer that the glasses perched at the end of his shnoz made him look smart.
Speaking of appearances, do some women actually believe that when they order those big protruding lips from a plastic surgeon that they’ll be the exception and that, unlike all of their friends, they won’t also wind up looking like ducks?
Frankly, considering the pain involved in going under the knife, I’m surprised that plastic surgery has caught on in such a big way.
I once had a conversation with a plastic surgeon and asked him about his strangest request. It turned out to be an Arab male who had been born with a nice-looking nose. I guess in his culture, that made him look as if he had already undergone plastic surgery. So he requested and received a more traditional hook in his beak.
Orson Welles didn’t take such a drastic step, but he had a button nose that made him look as if he had played one of those games with a baby — the one where you pretend to swipe its nose, only Orson had refused to give it back.
His solution was to have the make-up artist on his various productions use putty to give him a nose worthy of King Lear and Julius Caesar.
After I listed some classic insults, Wesley Forgue let me know that even five-star generals don’t always respect one another. Douglas MacArthur would refer to Dwight Eisenhower as “The best clerk I ever had,” while Ike returned the favor by mentioning he “had studied theatrics under MacArthur.”
After I had written something in favor of Donald Trump’s wall, Dan Parker sent me several biblical references upholding the morality of walls, even though the self-appointed reverend, Nancy Pelosi, has deemed all walls as immoral.
I replied: “Those who inhabit the Left strike me as being a different species from the rest of us. In fact, they appear to come from a different planet; one, by the way, out to destroy our own.”
While I’ve been calling for President Trump to call for public subscriptions to build his border wall, military veteran Brian Kolfage, a triple amputee, no less, has started a GoFundMe campaign to pay for the wall. So far, he has raised over $13 million.
A billion dollars is his goal. That seems like a lot of dough until you realize that 61 million people voted for Trump two years ago. If they each kicked in about $16, he’d have his billion.
I assume it’s his belief that if can raise that amount, even the members of a Democrat-controlled House would read the writing on the wall, so to speak, and would find the rest of the money, perhaps under the cushions of their office sofas where the various lobbyists have sat.
Nancy Thorner, the pride of Lake Bluff, Illinois, has let me know that one of the leaders of Antifa has been unmasked. His name is Joseph Alcoff, who sometimes calls himself Jose Martin, sometimes simply “Chepe.”
The group closest to his heart is Smash Racism DC, the Antifa group situated in the nation’s capital. He has worked closely with Senators Dianne Feinstein (CA) and Tammy Baldwin (WI) and has been photographed rubbing shoulders at party events with the likes of Sen. Sherrod Brown (OH) and Rep. Maxine Waters (CA).
The 36-year-old advocates for violent revolution, the murder of the wealthy and the immolation of everyone who opposes his desire to see America go Communist.
It was he and his group of pinheads who drove Sen. Cruz and Mrs. Cruz from a restaurant and vandalized Tucker Carlson’s home.
He played a leading role in Occupy Wall Street and advocates for “a world that is without capitalism, private property and the police;” in short, a Communist Eden.
Anyone out there who doesn’t believe he is wholly financed by George Soros? No, I didn’t think so.
Joe Neuner, who lives in a border state, has sent along a few jokes about those who live in the South.
The owner of a golf course in Georgia was confused about an invoice, so he called his secretary into his office: “You’re a college graduate, so tell me if I was to give you $8,000 minus 14%, how much would you take off?” “Everything but my earrings.”
A senior citizen in Florida told his friend: “When the end of the world comes, I want to be in Louisiana?” “Why’s that?” “Cause everything happens in Louisiana 20 years after it happens everywhere else.”
When a man in North Carolina got a flat tire, he pulled off the road and placed one bouquet of flowers in front of his car and another behind it. A passerby, overcome with curiosity, asked him why he did it. The driver patiently explained that when you break down, they tell you to put flares in the front and flares in the back.
A sheriff in Texas pulled up next to a guy dumping garbage out of his pickup into a roadside ditch. The lawman asked him if he was unable to read the sign posted five feet away. “Of course I can read it. It says plain as day: ‘Fine for dumping trash.’”
A Tennessee state trooper pulled over a speeding driver on I-65. Strolling up to the car window, he asked “Got any ID?” The driver replied: “About what?”
