Knock the Temple Down

Knock the Temple Down

Trump has accumulated 35% of America’s national debt SINCE 1776...  Let that sink in...

—The Rest is Politics: US

The drama over the weekend came when thousands of Moroccans surged into a Spanish enclave on the African coast. But what sense did it make? They still couldn’t get to Europe. And Ceuta is a tiny Spanish city. There was nothing for them to eat...and nowhere for them to sleep. So, they surged back home. Forbes:

Most Migrants Who Crossed Into Ceuta Have Returned To Morocco—As Death Toll Rises To 34

Why did this happen? Whispered on the internet: it was an Israeli operation...perhaps ‘the dumbest psyop of all time,’ writes Mike Whitney, intended to embarrass the Spanish government.

Immigration control was Donald Trump’s strong suit. The Democrats had bungled it, he thundered. Americans overwhelmingly wanted the borders controlled in a sensible, hospitable way. But POTUS seems to have bungled the immigration issue too. More tomorrow.

So many people criticize Trump’s handling of the economy and foreign affairs, there is no point in us piling on. Besides, we have no criticism to offer. He is the ignorant rascal he always was. But if anyone was suited to do the gods’ work, it was POTUS 47. The gods will tolerate neither a vacuum nor a monopoly. Occasionally, they send forth a man like Donald Trump to fill a hole...or to make one.

Donald Trump is single-handedly doing what the Russians, Iranians, North Koreans, Chinese, Democrats, Communists, Terrorists, Clintons, Bushes (though Bush II made significant strides), Covid — and the whole ‘Axis of Evil’ — couldn’t do. He is letting the air out of the US empire bubble, deflating its near-monopoly on global power.

At the beginning of his first term, in 2017, if he wanted to make America great again, he had to re-instate the policies that made it great in the first place. Free speech, free trade, free people...free from foreign mischief...free from crushing taxes...free from deficits...free from war...free from funny money.

Maybe he knew it was a lost cause. Maybe he intended to knock the temple down. Or, maybe he just charged ahead without giving the matter much thought.

In any case, instead of vetoing excess spending, he put on his DOGE-and-pony show...pretending to cut programs and fire people, but ultimately accomplishing nothing. Tariffs were always a bad idea. Still, a modest, sober tariff program might have raised a little money without doing much harm. Instead, his ‘reciprocal’ tariffs were whimsical, outrageous...on-again, off-again, with little rhyme or reason. Instead of the ‘peace president’ he promised to be, he partnered with the most bloodthirsty warmonger in the world...and attacked Iran, with no plausible gain for the US