"Our trade deficit with Mexico is over $100 billion."

El Caudillo said this out loud before the world today. This seemed a tad high to me so I went to that liberal think-tank at the Wall Street Journal to see if there was any disparity in this claim.

"The country ran up a $157 million deficit in December, bringing the full-year 2017 trade deficit to $10.88 billion, the National Statistics Institute said Friday. December exports rose 7.9% to $35.82 billion, and imports rose 8.4% to $35.98 billion."

Being the business genius that he is, (wink) you'd think that Herr Dipshiticus would know the difference between $100 billion and $10 billion. Jeff Bezos was worth $113 billion a few days ago and is somewhere in the $90 billion now. El Pendejo claims to be worth $10 billion though nobody can confirm this, except maybe Robert Mueller.

Before we slid into this fascists nightmare, conservatives were at full froth about the number of days it had been since Hillary had given a press conference. Day after day of this, it went on and on. It has been 400+ days since this jackass gave a press conference and not a single complaint has been registered by ANY Republican hypocrite.

Yesterday, the Kremlin *again* made news saying that Putin had been invited to the White House. This coming after Putin assassinated former spieS in our closest ally's country.

This morning, Clownface Von Fuckstick again said that Jeff Bezos was cheating the Post Office out of a lot of money after saying he was using it as 'his delivery boy.' This is fabulously idiotic. He then said the Post Office is losing billions of dollars. This too is a demonstrably bullshit assertion.

"Nobody has been tougher on Russia than I have. You're shaking your head because you know it's true."

If you think that Republicans are going to awake to the fact that this unctuous ignoramus is wholly incapable of moving his lips without lying, then you are sadly mistaken. Call it Stockholm syndrome, Dunning-Kruger effect or tribalism at its putrid worst, they are not going to suddenly find religion and realize the terrible mistake they have made.

Back in 1930, two conservatives of the nationalism stripe, got the wise idea to start having the rest of the world pay for the expenditure Americans made during the Great War. Willis Hawley from Oregon was chairman of the house Ways and Means Committee and Reed Smoot was chairman of the Senate's Finance Committee from Utah. Coupled with the idiocy of Herbert Hoover, the Smoot-Hawley tariffs were implemented in 1930. These are the two intellectual eunuchs who caused the Great Depression.

Hoover just could not admit that he made a mistake that had such devastating consequences. The price of his intellectual vanity was horrific. Republicans *never* admit they are wrong. (see Nixon, Cheney, Bush Jr. et all) and these days, they refuse to learn from history. Supply-side economics have failed 100% of the time but that has not stopped them from giving more money to rich people to starve 'the beast' they call our government.

Benedict Donald has never read a book. He has no knowledge of history and he's not even remotely acquainted with facts. He doesn't even have a rudimentary knowledge of any particular subject. He has imposed tariffs which has led to the beginning of a trade war with China. He has no grasp whatever of basic economics. China owns $5 trillion in American debt and could plunge us into a depression at will while this stupid bastard galavants to and fro to Mar A Lago while plundering as much as he possibly can with violation after violation of the Emoluments Clause.

The corruption of this entire administration is so vast and absolute that they are not even concealing the sheer amounts of larceny and treason they are engaged in. This congress is entirely complicit in everything. $2 million for an EPA director's security. This has never happened. $31,000 for a dining room table for Housing and Urban development. What the hell does HUD need with a dining room table? Is he cooking dinner at the office?

This dipshit has put every incompetent sycophant he can find to run our government. Yet he still enjoys an almost 90% approval rating among Republicans. There is no accommodation he will not afford Putin and no ally he will not attack. The POTUS has never attacked a single individual simply because he owns a newspaper he doesn't like. This is right out of the playbook of every tinpot dictator there has ever been. Republicans, simply do not care. They know what is coming and that's why they are fleeing congress in record numbers.

And to all you gnatwits who were crowing about your 401ks being worth so much more, are you crowing today hmm? While you're busy being quiet, tell us where all these magic revenues that were going to come from the tax cut are because the treasury is set to borrow $2 trillion this year! Why aren't all you 'fiscal conservatives' pissing and moaning about this? Where are all you 'free-trader' Republicans bloviating about these tariffs?

Those of us who study history know damn well how this circus ends and none of it is good, it's disastrous. To all you goddamn 3rd party 'lesser of two evil' liberals, you better get motivated this November and stop doing the Kremlin's work. VOTE BLUE NO MATTER WHO!

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