Dictator Trump and his idiotic tariff formula

 That is why Professor Scott Lucas, UCD Clinton Institute, Dublin, called Trump an 'economics moron' regarding his understanding of the tariffs he is raising. Trump only knows the beautiful word 'tariffs' without having an inkling of how it works. Of course, with six bankruptcies to his name, would anyone be surprised?

Scott Lucas revealed how Trump is manipulating the stock market to benefit his cronies and probably doing what they wanted him to do. But the one big hurdle he did not foresee was China not playing the game by having Xi called him to negotiate, which will have put the stock market on steroids. Moreover, there are two camps in Trumps administration with diametrically opposite opinions regarding the flip flops made by Trump. But those that opposed Trump are wary of the backlash if they go against him.

Bear in mind that Trump has already been going after all those who worked against him or tried to do him in during Biden's watch, especially the FBI that ransacked his Mar Largo residence regarding classified documents, and those who tried to prosecute him over the January 6th 'uprising'. It was nothing more than revenge by the convicted felon. Whatever freedom of anything that USA citizens are enjoying now is being trampled upon by Trump, basically throwing the USA Constitution regarding their rights, all into the dustbin.

Now, Trump is trying to get rid of Jerone Powell as well because he refused to lower interest rates to make Trump look good and able to boast about interest rates going down despite the effect of his tariffs. This moron will manufacture the narratives to fit his crime by hook or by crook. How this will play out is going to be fun to watch. If Trump can just ignore the judge's pronouncements over the deportation issue, he will ignore the independence of the Federal Reserve and find ways to get rid of Powell.

I think the time will come when the USA citizens will be in a position to call Trump a 'dictator'. Trump may call other leaders 'a dictator', but he is moving himself into position as one for sure.

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Kill switches in Boeing aircraft will kill Boeing...will be cancelled from all Chinese airlines

 Remember China was the first country that grounded the Boeing 737 after two successive crashes end 2018 and early 2019 and other countries subsequently followed. China moving away from Boeing planes may also elicit a following from other countries.

China knows what goes on inside those Boeing planes that could be unsafe to say the least, in the face of rumors about 'kill switches' in its fighter jets and the mystery of Malaysia flight MH370. Of course, denials are expected, but as they say, there is no smoke without fire.

Jiang Zemin bought a Boeing plane for his presidential use years ago, only to discover that it was filled with bugs. That plane has never been used again. The USA lost the chance to listen in to top Chinese secrets for sure.

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Xi will call Trump? Severe pain in 3 to 6 months, recession, inflation, bankruptcies, unemployment and riots in the streets of USA

 Trump is still touting that Xi will come to him to negotiate, with even his White House spokesperson keeping up repeating the mantra that Xi has to call Trump to negotiate soon.

Now, let us sit back a little and think about Trump claiming that China has made many indications that it is going to negotiate. If Chinese spokespeople on the media commenting on those tariffs and telling the USA to grow up and stop its bullying in order to get an adult response from Xi and trying to interpret that as an indication that China is sending out feelers and looking to negotiate, he is delusional.

Further, when asked by the media whether Xi in fact called him, he would not answer that and clamped up. What does that tell us? He was just bragging clear and simple. To a prolific braggart, that call from Xi would be broadcast to the moon if it did happen. And his cronies would be reaping in all the dough with the stock market shooting up. Trump already sent a discreet message to them that this is a good time to buy. To whom was the call being directed to?

The other indication that he is trying to pull a fast one was the move indicating that he is trying to use the Tik Tok fiasco as a bargaining chip, using it as another excuse to extend the deadline for banning Tik Tok. That must be his 'Art of the Deal'. China should stand firm and let Tik Tok be banned. After all, USA citizens have already been well informed by Tik Tok on many issues, and by Rednote in comparing living conditions in USA and China. Suffice to say, what Rednote did in a couple of weeks managed to destroy all the years of propaganda generation and demonization by the USA against China. And last but not least I should also mention DeepSeek putting USA tech giants to shame with its AI app.

Anonymous

Japan should charge the Americans for military bases in Japan

 Idiot Trump foolishly told Japan and the world that the American occupation forces and military bases in their countries are there to protect them, thinking that the world leaders are as stupid as him. Every American colony and crony state knows that the American soldiers and bases in their countries are there to protect the American Empire and to control these countries, to conduct regime change, to threaten these countries in case they want to be free from the American control. 

Japan and South Korea, Germany, are clear cases of American colonies. The American military bases would be in their countries forever to control and colonise them. In the Middle East, the same is true. Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Iraq, Syria etc etc, all have American military bases and soldiers to control them, to conduct regime change if the leaders want to break free from the evil American Empire The Arab leaders are not stupid. They are trying to break free from the American choking grip. Japan and South Korea too, having been colonised and ruled by the Americans since WW2.

With idiot Trump in charge and his delusion of protecting these countries, maintaining world peace, and demanding every country to pay for this protection ie from being invaded and attacked by the American terrorists, this is the time to say NO to the American gangsters and terrorists.

Japan, the biggest victim, with hundreds of American bases, should simply tell Trump, please pay for the use of Japanese land, and American soldiers must abide by Japanese laws as they are in Japan. The military bases are in Japan, and American soldiers must come under Japanese laws, not American laws. It would be interesting to see how idiot Trump reacts to this Japanese demand. 

Very likely Trump would say the American bases would not move out of Japan and still insisting Japan to pay for them, for their own protection from being attacked by the American terrorists. There is still a possibility that idiot Trump would say if the Japanese refused to pay rent, he would withdraw all American soldiers and bases from Japan. This would be most welcomed by the Japanese, to be free from American control and colonisation, to be a truly independent nation for once.

Japan, this is your chance to end the humiliation. There cannot be another idiot in Washington to present such a golden opportunity to free Japan from the American Empire. This is a rare silver lining for the Japanese to redeem their pride instead of suffering as a colonised people under the American Empire in the 21st Century!

What the world would be like without China standing in the way of the rogue American terrorists?

 Some quarters in Asean, especially the pro American Asean states and English educated opinion influencers, especially those with ethnic Chinese roots, are still propagating the view that they trusted the Americans more than China. They still believe that American is for peace, to protect peace, and China's effort for peace is not genuine...and Americans' war in Europe, the Middle East and Africa are for peace, or fiction, did not happen.

This kind of silly colonial views in favour of the white men, their former colonial masters, cannot be easily erased after centuries of western programming of their minds with English literatures they read in schools, in the media and their occupation that were facilitated by their ability to speak and write in English to an English speaking world. They benefitted from being in an English speaking environment and an English speaking audience and an English speaking echoing chamber that bounced around their Pinkerton tinted lenses and mindsets.

For the last few hundred years, the history of the world, the massacres, genocides, invasions, wars and occupation of foreign lands, crimes against humanity, were all conducted and committed by the white men. They invaded and conquered the whole world, and China was one of their victims, broken up, impoverished and bankrupted and oppressed. This did not change their thinking about the West as the invaders and oppressors of the world, of the coloured people, as their minds and thinkings were also colonised by the western literature that painted colonialism and imperialism as a glorious conquest for the white men. No crimes, no violation of national sovereignty, no violation of human rights, no wrong.

Today, the recent history is also full of invasions and wars committed by the white men against the coloured people and their former colonies. The wars in Europe, in the Middle East, in Africa and Latin America, and the impending wars that the white men are agitating and wanting to start in Asia, are all facts and evidence of the aggressive and savage nature of the white men. 

China was not involved in any wars and aggression against any country. The territorial claims in the South China Sea were started and supported by the Americans to claim territories long claimed by China under the finder's keepers principle. China has all the historical rights to these uninhabited islands and reefs that they reclaimed from the sea. The countries challenging China's claims did not exist till after WW2. Their claims were supported by the western fake and mischievous narratives and based on a new Law of the Sea that they tried to apply retrospectively against China. By agitating and inciting these claims against China, the West was able to divert the attention and memories from their illegal occupation of native lands like USA and Canada, Australia, New Zealand and many lands and islands in the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans

And the English educated Anglophiles simply and conveniently accepted the American and western narratives as the version of truth and repeatedly echo this position to demonise China in support of the fake and mischievous western narratives.

How the Americans and the West deviously divided the Middle East for centuries, sowing discord and unending wars among these states were totally ignored by the English educated Anglosphiles. China stepped in to patch up the centuries of rivalry between Saudi Arabia and Iran, curtailing the white men's divide and rule was simply brushed aside by these silly English educated Anglophiles as unimportant and to serve China's interest. The great contribution by China in maintaining peace among the Arab and Muslim states vis a vis the continuous provocations, intrigues by the West to keep the Arab and Muslim countries fighting endlessly could not be noticed or appreciated by the unthinking English educated Anglophiles.

To this unthinking, but thinking that they are thinking, English educated Anglophiles, the white men are the white gods and it is their rights and privilege to conduct wars, commit war crimes, genocides with impunity. China on the other hand did not commit any of such hideous crimes but still be seen as the bad guy. This state of mind is so pathetic, when the so called literate and thinking elites are unable to think clearly and continue to live with their colonised mindset and spreading lies and white men's mischievous narratives against the Asian and coloured people.

The holocaust and genocide in Gaza still cannot change their dull and thick heads as to who is the real devil. China is still their Satan without engaging in wars and war crimes against humanity. The murderers and butchers are still their gods and angels, the good guys. It is so despicable. Even some Muslims also believe the Americans and the white men are the good guys, ignoring and refusing to see what is happening in Gaza. The Palestinians are still dying in the hands of their white gods, the Americans, the Brits, the French and the Israelis, and they are still pointing the fingers at China who is not a party to the war crimes and crimes against the Arabs and Muslims. They still trust the Americans more than the Chinese, according to a suspicious and mischievous survey.

Can the silly English educated coloured people imagine what the world would be like without China standing in the way of the rogue American terrorists? Trump would make sure they crawled to Washington to kiss his ass. Perhaps they really want to do that, to kiss Trump's ass as a great privilege. None has expressed disdain or felt insulted by this rude boast of Trump.