It’s shock and awe time for Uncle Sam’s allies in the clown car who have mindlessly gone along for the ride.
Not only is freshly re-minted US President Donald Trump reversing course at breakneck speed but, if his newly declared priorities are any indication, he seems to be headed, pedal to the metal, all the way back to the 80s.
One has to look back about 40 years to find a "simpler" time in Western society. Life was straightforward. You worked, earned a commensurate livable wage, and focused on your life and that of your family. Period. You didn’t have to dedicate bandwidth to navigating lunacy like which pronouns you should be using when you meet someone. Or whether to chop off your kid’s junk before the school demands it for his mental health and suggests you be re-educated if you object. Or whether your neighborhood soon risked looking like it was transplanted, in toto, from a foreign country. Or whether there was stuff hidden inside your food that would only make its presence known once it had latched onto your inexplicably ever-widening backside.
| The writer does have a way with words. |
You knew about the foreign wars, and that they were a boon to the military industrial complex, but you didn’t get the impression that the country that was being invaded was like a foster child, commanding so many resources and attention that they were considered a big reason why your own life sucked. You figured that the folks in charge at least had enough sense to put the oxygen mask on their own people first. Now, it’s like Westerners in general are just supposed to embrace the martyrdom, gasping away and accepting to make the best of it.
Americans ultimately rejected it all when they elected Trump. And if his recent executive orders within hours of taking office are any indication, he isn’t wasting any time on setting the Time Machine to a return to the pre-woke era.
With a stroke of the presidential pen, he’s now brought back the two-gender reality, deprived men of the opportunity to excel in women’s sports, and terminated government-sponsored diversity, equity, and inclusion policies. As a woman who has championed first- and second-wave feminism, the kind that ended by the 80s before being hijacked by lunacy that perverted the interests of women and minorities — it’s about damn time.
...He’s basically doing everything that he figures will make the US wealthier, from lifting the ban on Alaskan oil drilling to declaring a national energy emergency. And he doesn’t seem too interested in continuing or starting wars unless he can see a clear net return on investment for the hassle. "We will measure our success not only by the battles we win, but also by the wars that we end and, perhaps most importantly, the wars we never get into. My proudest legacy will be that of a peacemaker and unifier," Trump said in his inaugural address.
He’d clearly rather just straight-up tax countries (even friendly ones) through his exploratory concept of an "External Revenue Service," or try to gain an advantage on the playing field through sanctions that handicap competitors, like those he just slapped back onto Cuba mere days after Biden had lifted them.
| Cuba is not a competitor — of anyone, actually, except perhaps Venezuela. Cuba is an enemy. |
...Meanwhile, across the pond here in Europe, and up in Canada, leaders and wannabe leaders are positioning themselves as the anti-Trump — the one who can stand up to his policies. Good luck with that. Europe literally made itself dependent on American natural gas when they cut themselves off from cheap Russian supply,
| …cheap but decidedly untrustworthy, as they discovered one cold winter. So until they grow their own supply again, they’ll get to choose between two evils… |
and now Trump is turning the screws and demanding that they buy even more or face tariffs. Way to stick it to Russia, guys.
Former Canadian Liberal Canadian Deputy Prime Minister and prime minister hopeful, Chrystia Freeland, says it’s a "huge advantage" that Trump doesn’t like her.
"At a time when President Donald Trump is threatening our country, it’s time to fight for Canada," she wrote on social media.
Her Liberal leadership opponent, Mark Carney, the former bankers’ banker in both Canada and the UK, World Economic Forum and Bilderberg fixture, and former chair of the Financial Stability Board that governs the global financial system, is running as an "outsider" — whose signature is literally stamped on Canada’s currency. He should add "self-aware" to his list of personal qualities.
...This week’s French Prime Minister, Francois Bayrou,
who just managed to dodge France’s second non-confidence vote in as many months, has called for the need to "stand up" to Trump. But before even thinking of effectively confronting the US, they’re all going to have to undo the damage that they’ve done to their own countries in blindly following Washington’s screwy policies to their own detriment. And that means dismantling all the distracting, resource-consuming, wokeist globalist agenda nonsense that Trump is now sweeping into the dustbin as he moves back onto the White House.
The problem is that Washington’s allies in the Western establishment are so brainwashed in their worldview that, in the absence of their own domestic house-cleanings in favor of populist Trump-like thinking, they run the risk of Trump running circles around their countries, bringing America back to 80s style basics of success, all while they try to figure out how to escape their own self-imposed echo chamber of nonsense. And there’s not even any evidence yet to suggest that they even realize that the entire problem is them. |
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