That Was Quick

There is a scene in Heartbreak Ridge where Gunny Highway discovers that his men are supposed to ambush Major Powers at a predetermined location so there are no surprises. Instead of cooperating the recon boys ambush Powers early when they are unprepared and “kill” them all.

It is easy to win a fight when your opponent does the exact same thing at the exact same time, every time. I could beat up Mike Tyson if I knew his every move and he never deviated from it. Recon platoon was sacrificed over and over in a rigged encounter until Highway decided to not play by the rules.

It reminds me of these first two weeks of Trump.

The script in foreign relations and trade deals is pretty standard. America gives up everything the other side wants and we get nothing we want. Rinse. Repeat. We have been talking about the trade deficit my whole life and absolutely nothing has ever been done to fix it. Quite the opposite, we have done deals that make that trade imbalance worse. The diplomats and ambassadors and trade ministers know the game, who is expected to play which part and no one deviates from it so it goes smooth like melted butter.

Then along comes Orange Man 2.0.

He wants Colombia to take back deported criminals. They refuse. He slaps them with enormous tariffs while playing a round of golf. By the end of the round Columbia has capitulated and agreed to take the illegals back and even fly them on the Presidential plane.

Then he follows through on his promise to enact tariffs on Mexico and Canada unless they agree to border security measures. The Left clutches Their pearls. He is going to cause food prices to go up on avocados and maple syrup and Corona! The same people who ignored and dismissed food inflation for four years are wailing and gnashing Their teeth over paying more for guacamole (which is disgusting and looks like baby poop). Chuck Schumer was on TV rubbing his little rat paws together and bemoaning that people might pay more for Super Bowl snacks, like the guy has ever watched the Super Bowl. This is the same guy who did a photo op holding a raw burger with a slice of cheese on it to pretend he is a regular guy. The media breathlessly reported that fans in Canada were booing the national anthem at NHL and NBA games.

While the Left was ramping up the hysteria machine, Mexico quickly caved and agreed to send 10,000 troops to the border to interdict the flow of fentanyl and illegals.

Meanwhile Trump ordered the military to blow the crap out of some random goat humper in Somalia. Why? It wasn’t about that guy, it was a message to the cartels. We can blow up terrorists in Somalia with the push of a button and we can do the same to you now that drug cartels have been designated as terrorist groups.

Shortly after Claudia ((Sheinbaum)) went belly up, her northern counterpart Justin Castro-Trudeau did the same:

Trudeau Bends The Knee: Canada Will Send 10,000 Troops To Border, Name Fentanyl Czar To Delay Trump Tariffs

Trudeau is even more of a pussy than I thought. First he goes to Mar-a-lago to bend the knee and Trump mocks him to his face, then he is run out of office because Trump humiliated him and finally he bends over and bites the pillow after 24 hours on the trade war.

I said yesterday in The End Is Nigh!

What I am assuming will happen: Trump will raise tariffs, outgoing prime minister Justin Trudeau and Mexican president ((Claudia Sheinbaum)) will retaliate and everyone will hurf and blurf in public. Meanwhile behind the scenes they will quietly agree to do what Trump wants them to do because these tariffs might be painful for U.S. consumers but they will be devastating for Canada and Mexico. Trump isn’t playing around and they know it. He won’t get everything he wants but he will get most of what he wants.

It went down even faster than I thought it would. It is taking some self-discipline to not get too bought into what is going on but it will be fun while it lasts. Imagine an American President that seems to actually place American interests first.