How a Mob Gang Hijacked The United States in 100 Days
The US Justice System Taken Over By Thugs. The IRS System Disembowled to Protect The Wealthiest (Donors) and to Prosecute Objectors. The Department of Defense Infilitrated by Anarchists. Lobbyists and Political Patrons Rewarded With Riches and Deals. Global Partnerships Torched. The US Securities & Exchange Commission is officially in the hands of henchman carrying out the orders of mobsters and thugs.
Is it any wonder that Warren Buffett and Mark Mobius have suggested that “it will be 4-5 years” before investing in U.S. Equity Markets makes sense”?
Despite the sub-title to this post, we have no ‘answer’ for how this train wreck appened, other than to suggest that (i) those who voted for Trump 2.0 were tricked yet again into believing that a second version of a Trump presidency would be “good for me, and good for America”. Notice the “good for me” view; that’s the world that we’ve evolved into. Kool-Aid 101.
PS We don’t care that $SPX, which lost 19% (or said another way, $11 Trillion Dollars) in market value since Trump took office, and then recovered 90% of those losses inside of the most recent 2 weeks. The joke is, as the rebound was half-way complete, Pump & Dump Trump, who never stops touting his meme coin $TRUMP, said “This is Biden’s Stock Market!” Hooah for Joe Biden!
Ok, we know that Trump will blame flame Biden (or his son, or Hilary Clinton or George Soros) when US stock prices return to a ‘proper valuation’ (sic: lower than today’s closing).
The Tariff War that Trump launched will mostly have American casualties, not Chinese casualties. By every calculation, Trump & Co’s ill-fated war on the world could prove to be more bloody within context of inflation, lost jobs, and lower productivity. By the way, can you say ‘stagflation’ 5x fast?
To you Muppets who insist on citing Trump’s ghost-written book “Art of the Deal”, and have been led to believe he’s a ‘great negotiator’ (laughable), you need to read The Art of War . PS, aside from the Chinese holding all of the Mahjong cards, Trump is being played like a violin by Putin
There are few, if any right-minded right-leaning politicians who have the cajones to raise even a whisper of objection to the hijacking taking place in plain site. Like the law firms that caved, the media companies that caved, the tech bros that caved (that includes you, Mark Zuckerberg and you, Jeff Bezos, and you, Ben Horowitz, among many others), it’s all about the money. Principals, ethics, morality, and plain good sense that had made the United States the most revered, respected country in the free world have evaporated in a matter of a few short months.
We have a President who takes pride in causing chaos (as he acknowledged with a smirk to Bill Maher when Maher asked how he can square the ludicrous comments he makes on a daily basis). Yet by any measure, he’s creating chaos in an effort to intimidate anyone who challenges the array of assinine things he is saying and doing.
With a press secretary who has never been a press secretary and screams “Fake News!” every time she is questioned about a tweet that Trump had made within the past hour (and each time, its not fake news as Trump’s fingerprints are always found to be on the stupid button).
We have a President who takes the advice of a surrogate psychopath whose name should be Laura Looney instead of Laura Loomer, and he surrounds himself with loyalists and sycophants, only one of which actually has the credentials to justify his/her role (we’re giving Scott Bessett alot of credit with that observation).
Some of the MAGA Merchants of Mayhem servicing the President (take that comment any way you would like to) are billionaires thanks to sharp-elbows, deceptive practices and a phalanx of high-paid lawyers. That best describes Howard Butt Lick Lutnick. Yes, Elon Musk has proven to have brains, yet his moral compass may have always been broken, even if his skills at being a carnival promoter remain intact. The others hope to become billionaires before their respective terms in office come to an end.
And, all the while, investors in US equities and bonds are taken on a daily ride that would cause a trapeze artist to suffer from vertigo. Any ‘research analyst’ who claims to “predict” where equity indices might be two days from now, no less two months or two quarters from now is hallucinating.
Welcome to the New America, folks. Many of you voted for this (of course you did, Trump told you exactly the kind of mayhem he intended to create before he was elected!). When you try explain to your children or your grandchildren (who will undoubtedly suffer the consequences for the decline of America brought on by the aspiring dictatorship), as to why you insisted on turning a blind eye to the pillars this country was built on, we wish you lots of luck. BTW, you might be better off swimming with the fishes instead of being chum for the sharks that have acquired every nanobyte of data about you and your family, including every dime you have and where its located.