Friday, August 23, 2019

Just when you thought nothing worse could happen....

The president, in what may have been his longest tweet ever, gave the lie to thinking nothing worse could happen.

What did he say?

1) He increased more tariffs against China after they answered his earlier tariffs with those of their own. (The Dow Jones Average fell 643 points over that statement!)

2) He said 'fake news' (by which he means the honest mainstream media) was fueling talk of a recession that can't happen since the American economy has never been better.

3) He pondered whether dictator Xi of China or Jerome Powell, head of the Federal Reserve Bank was the greatest enemy of America. (The President appointed Powell to the job!!! So, if he is an enemy of American, who put him there???)

4) He said American companies are 'ordered' not to do business with China. (Never mind that no President has that power or has ever suggested they did. Plus, in the global economy, the US is intimately connected to China as well as Western Europe, Japan, Mexico and markets in the rest of the world. Parts of every thing you own, though manufactured in America, came from China or some other countries. Things we sell to China have parts made in China.)

That would seem to be enough for one day, but he is leaving in an hour or so for the G-7 summit of 7 of the most important countries in the world (Canada, France, Germany, Japan, Italy, the UK and the US) most of whom have no idea what he's thinking or how he will behave. He left the last G-7 summit over a tiff with Angela Merkel.

I want to go to sleep tonight and wake up with Obama or any responsible adult as President in the morning.

And I want the Republicans to come to their senses and realize this guy is dragging them down the rabbit hole...or a black hole.

I believe in two party government. We don't have that now--we have the Democrats, who have lots of disagreements but will stand together, a few honest and brave Republicans, who seem to retire from Congress after becoming honest and brave, and these folks who mindlessly follow a man who has some serious issues that make him unfit to be President.

God save us.....

A very bad, awful, terrible, no-good day today.

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