Can you feel it? This Administration is falling apart. All they have left are mostly hollow threats, empty bluster and never ending victimhood whining. A strong leader could care less about what comedians or cartoon shows say about them. Hopefully, they have more important things to deal with but not this crew! “Take that off the air or I'll sue!” Nobody can make fun of me! This Administration is devoid of Any leadership skills whatsoever. The walls are closing inevitably and relentlessly. I'm not sure what this will look like going forward. But I can assure you it won't be pretty. Let's examine tariff chicken and TACO Trump, the ongoing ICE fiasco and possibly the final nail in the MAGA coffin, the Epstein saga.
You don't have to be a rocket scientist or an economist to understand tariffs are bad for the economy. What makes it even worse is the on again and off again nature based apparently on the president's mood. In order to thrive business needs stability. They need to know the rules will not suddenly change based on an autocrat’s mood. If you know even the slightest about business, you understand they pass expenses on to customers. They are simply not going to take losses out of a sense of patriotism. And I call bullshit but all of these so-called “trade deals.” Real trade deals between something as large and complicated as two nation states take months or even years to hammer out. Trade agreements are much more than social media posts. Several hundred changes in a few months only inject instability into the system. Sooner or later the bill will come due. Ripping people off the street by goons wearing masks without due process is much more than just a bad look.
What's going to happen when the people who work our farms stop showing up? The best case may be price spikes along with some going hungry. With the people who do our building afraid to show up to work (along with tariffs on materials) will pretty much kill construction efforts. I never thought I would see the day in the United States where police wear masks and send people off to literal concentration camps. Please understand what can happen to our most vulnerable, can happen to any of us. Also be assured they will not stop with illegal black and brown people. Authoritarians must always have enemies! Where are you on their list? Where are your family and friends on that list? Consider it carefully and here's one more thing.
The Epstein nightmare is an albatross that will hang around Trump's neck until he is in the grave. No amount of Obama bashing or digging up dirt on Hillary will make this go away. Jingling shiny keys will no longer work. Sooner or later there will be investigations and much of the truth will come out. Sadly, I don't think this means justice for the victims. Our imperfect system simply will not allow for any Elite to face consequences. This scandal will further shred the Republican Party and maybe even the Democrats before it's over. There's no amount of distraction or whining that can make this story "go away."
Trump says a lot of things. That's a far cry from what actually happens. So called “executive orders” get shot down on the courts. “Trade Agreements” are in actuality nothing more than a social media post. Lawsuit after lawsuit gets dismissed. Given Trump's obvious and rapid mental decline, things will only get worse. I have a bad feeling the infighting and power struggles within the White House are off the charts! So much for consistency and stability.
