Nobody wants to face the significance of NAFTA. That was when the cartels got their power. Last week I wrote: "After the 1994 NAFTA agreement opened the southern border, the U.S. government, businesses, and financial institutions trumpeted “globalism” as the flattener of worlds and leveler of playing fields. As a result, they explained, anti-trust laws, banking regulations, unions, workers safety laws, environmental protection were now outdated and unnecessary hindrances to “the free market.” Of course, the politicians they owned and their mandarins in the press agreed because multinational corporations needed cheap, exploitable labor to keep their production costs down. Under the messianic battle cry of “globalization,” millions of Latin Americans took their chances and traveled north. Worse, the U.S. government, businesses, and banks turned a blind eye to our most immediate national security threat—the Mexican Cartels."
We think alike. I was a NYC liberal and even I couldn't get past the first 50 pages of "The World is Flat" - it was so ridiculous. I thought of that book while reading your comment. How things have changed. It took a while for me to see things the way I do now - and Friedman looks like a total bought and paid for clown.
In this ever changing world, under a President who appears to not have fully game-planned everything, this article looks like it might need some tweaking two weeks later? Why did Trump blink on Tariffs? Why does Trump seem so ready to make side deals with whoever pleads with him? I'm having a hard time finding the honest brokers inside the Trump Admin. I'm not disagreeing with the premise of your article, yet I'm wondering how Trump can be deemed the Avatar or even the honest broker of this movement.
I think it's like all things Trump. The tariff rates were / are ridiculously high, and the "formula" was absurd. Then, the discussion and capitulations began, and the back and forth has already begun. I think you have it backwards, they do seem to be honest brokers within the administration, but some are not very bright. Also, as a side note, "honest" and "administration" at any gov't level are words that rarely - if ever - should be used in the same sentence.
Trump as the Avatar works. The method, the message, and the idea that America should take care of itself, just like everybody else does. It's easy to digest. Juxtapose that to the summer of 2024, when the sitting president bailed out of the race via tweet ... and then a 'statement' ... and then who was in charge? He didn't resign, but he was unfit to run a campaign. That's very strange, dishonest, and no one to this day knows who was running things between July 2024 and Jan 2025.
As a registered democrat, I can't think of more abysmal messaging. Trump comes in, and as goofy as it is at times, people like leadership and slogans.
In many of my recent posts regarding politics I have beaten the drum on how the Democrats performed political malpractice to the highest order with respect to the whole 2024 Presidential Campaign (along with many missteps prior to).
The Democratic Party is an embarrassment, plain and simple. I'm still in no way shape or form inclined to rally around Trump. I get why he won, and I also get why his approval rating is upside down too.
I certainly don't see him as a real leader. The man wants to deport anyone who disagrees with him. If he were to ever discover my Substack one of the three things would happen
1- My Substack subscription based would absolutely explode
2- I would be deported before my Substack could ever fully grow (and it might get deleted)
3 - I will be deported and my Substack subscription base will explode!
Nobody wants to face the significance of NAFTA. That was when the cartels got their power. Last week I wrote: "After the 1994 NAFTA agreement opened the southern border, the U.S. government, businesses, and financial institutions trumpeted “globalism” as the flattener of worlds and leveler of playing fields. As a result, they explained, anti-trust laws, banking regulations, unions, workers safety laws, environmental protection were now outdated and unnecessary hindrances to “the free market.” Of course, the politicians they owned and their mandarins in the press agreed because multinational corporations needed cheap, exploitable labor to keep their production costs down. Under the messianic battle cry of “globalization,” millions of Latin Americans took their chances and traveled north. Worse, the U.S. government, businesses, and banks turned a blind eye to our most immediate national security threat—the Mexican Cartels."
I remember those days. Ross Perot was right - and the disgusting corporate media did what they always do - called him crazy and weird.
Perot looks a lot better than the NYT's dreadful Thomas Friedman--the Pied Piper of globalism.
We think alike. I was a NYC liberal and even I couldn't get past the first 50 pages of "The World is Flat" - it was so ridiculous. I thought of that book while reading your comment. How things have changed. It took a while for me to see things the way I do now - and Friedman looks like a total bought and paid for clown.
In this ever changing world, under a President who appears to not have fully game-planned everything, this article looks like it might need some tweaking two weeks later? Why did Trump blink on Tariffs? Why does Trump seem so ready to make side deals with whoever pleads with him? I'm having a hard time finding the honest brokers inside the Trump Admin. I'm not disagreeing with the premise of your article, yet I'm wondering how Trump can be deemed the Avatar or even the honest broker of this movement.
I think it's like all things Trump. The tariff rates were / are ridiculously high, and the "formula" was absurd. Then, the discussion and capitulations began, and the back and forth has already begun. I think you have it backwards, they do seem to be honest brokers within the administration, but some are not very bright. Also, as a side note, "honest" and "administration" at any gov't level are words that rarely - if ever - should be used in the same sentence.
Trump as the Avatar works. The method, the message, and the idea that America should take care of itself, just like everybody else does. It's easy to digest. Juxtapose that to the summer of 2024, when the sitting president bailed out of the race via tweet ... and then a 'statement' ... and then who was in charge? He didn't resign, but he was unfit to run a campaign. That's very strange, dishonest, and no one to this day knows who was running things between July 2024 and Jan 2025.
As a registered democrat, I can't think of more abysmal messaging. Trump comes in, and as goofy as it is at times, people like leadership and slogans.
In many of my recent posts regarding politics I have beaten the drum on how the Democrats performed political malpractice to the highest order with respect to the whole 2024 Presidential Campaign (along with many missteps prior to).
The Democratic Party is an embarrassment, plain and simple. I'm still in no way shape or form inclined to rally around Trump. I get why he won, and I also get why his approval rating is upside down too.
I certainly don't see him as a real leader. The man wants to deport anyone who disagrees with him. If he were to ever discover my Substack one of the three things would happen
1- My Substack subscription based would absolutely explode
2- I would be deported before my Substack could ever fully grow (and it might get deleted)
3 - I will be deported and my Substack subscription base will explode!
If he finds your Substack - can I get the usual 3% finders fee? Standard rate of course - no need for me to get greedy.
Josh - South America is wonderful - if I had the $$ I’d own property there right now. You might be on to something….
😂 😂 😂