You See How That Works?

It was mere moments after taking the helm that our 47th President began spewing forth Executive Orders.  

Dozens of them.  So many the "Legacy Media" were overwhelmed.  They couldn't keep up.  By design.

And in addition to a bevy of E.O.'s, Trump also began firing off insults and accusations and demands and wishes and requirements with his mouth.  Like, insulting Canada's P.M. by calling him our 51st State governor.  And suggesting, strongly, that Canada would be far better off being one of our states.  

It would have lower taxes, Trump said.  And lower costs for energy.  And better defense, and a whole lot of other stuff.  Pissing off Trudeau and embarrassing him in front of the world.  Throwing him off kilter before the negotiations even began.  

Trump explained to Trudeau, and the world, all the ways Canada has been screwing us, the U. S. Taxpayer.  To the tune of more than $200 Billion Dollars a Year.  Trump had taken the measure of the man and proceeded to go for the figurative jugular.  Remember, Canada taxes the crap out of us on bourbon, and cars, and lumber, and milk, and paper, and grain, and so many other commodities.

We can't even sell milk across the border to Canada, fergoddsake!  They won't let us!  

He did the same to Meheeeeko.  Demanding they stop their cartels or we would.  Stop permitting Fentanyl from crossing the River, Trump demanded.  And illegal aliens.  Trump threatened 25 - 50% tariffs on cars and tequila and fruit and a bunch of other stuff, in an effort to equalize the cross-border taxation between them and us. 

Annual income from tariffs currently favors Meheeeeko to the tune of more than $288 Billion Dollars a Year.    

He did the same to the European Union, issuing 200% tariffs on Champagne and wine and cars and a bunch of other stuff.  Which could benefit our wineries and distilleries greatly.  BMW just issued a statement telling the world they'll be moving the production of U. S.-bound cars to the U. S.  Another victory.  A victory the "Legacy Media" won't tell you about.

You see how that works?

Except we wouldn't introduce those tariffs if Europe and Canada and Meheeeko would lower theirs.  To our rates.  Reciprocal.  Or none at all.  Same for both parties.       

Trump also demanded an end to the Russia - Ukraine War.  Something our previous "occupant" of the Oval Office never did.  Or even tried to do.  Of course, it might have helped if Mr. Biden had come to work...

He first had to determine if Putin wanted peace, he said.  Preliminary negotiations said he did (whether he did or not).  He then called upon Ukraine to see if they also wished a cessation to hostilities.  After a childish blow-up in the White House, Zelenskyy said he did.  Bi-lateral peace talks may now take place.  With the U. S. as the mediator.  The Honest Broker.  Something we couldn't have been if we'd appeared to be on Ukraine's side from the outset. 

You see how that works?

Just think:  We've given Ukraine more than $125 Billion Dollars so it can fight Russia.  As our proxy.  And more than 100,000 soldiers have died in the process.  Wouldn't it be better to stop the killing?  Trump thinks so.  And only Trump can get them both to the table.  

You see how that works? 

We're watching those peace talks begin to unfold.  Zelenskyy finally said "yes."  Putin's said a "qualified "yes."  Those qualifications need to be addressed and worked out.  Else, Russia will be declared the impediment to peace, an international pariah.  And the U. S., and its allies, will unleash every tariff and tax and all the economic warfare on them available to us.  Including forcing our allies to cease the purchasing of Russian oil.  And making ours available for purchase.  Which we can do.  And which would bring them to their knees.  And to the negotiating table, within weeks.

You see how that works?

Oh yeah, and he threatened to invade Greenland and take back the Panama Canal.  We don't really need to invade Greenland.  And he doesn't want to invade Greenland.  We just need to take defensive control of it.  In response, it just called a snap election and their version of our Republicans were elected.  I predict our troops will have that defensive control of Greenland without having to annex it.  And our doing so would be much cheaper.  

And "invading" the Panama Canal won't prove necessary, either.  Blackrock Corp. is now in the process of buying the port controls from the two companies that own both its Pacific and the Atlantic ends (both members of the CCP).  Which Panama sold as a result of Trump bluster.  So the U. S. will have "control" of the Canal, but without having to buy it.  Or invade it.

You see how that works?  

It astounds me that so few of the folks I speak with on a daily basis fail to understand that Trump's bluster is nothing but a negotiating tactic.  You ask for far more than you expect to receive.  You ask for the moon, then go from there.  Or even demand the moon if you've got the advantage, and the other side capitulates for someting less than the moon.  But far more than they would have given had each side started at the 50 yard-line.  Carrots and sticks.  Teddy Roosevelt knew it.  Donald J. Trump knows it.  And he's putting it on display.  

You see how that works?

A lawyer friend of mine taught me years ago that a successful deal is one where both sides are mildly unhappy.  Where neither side feels like they got all they wanted.  Where both sides are allowed to take away a "victory," even if it's only pyrrhic.

For those of you who've been trained to hate Trump, to detest the ground upon which he walks; who cannot stand the sound of his voice,* who wish he'd be hit by a comet, just take this one piece of advice from your hoary old friend, The Chuckmeister:

Stop listening to him.  Stop watching the negotiating process.  Stop following his every word.  Turn off the Telly, get some "Books on Tape," buy a fishing pole and head to the lake.  Check back in in 6 months to see how things are going.  I'm betting EGBOK.  That means, 

"Everything's Gonna' Be Okay."  

*     I confess, neither can I.