Trump says Ripped Off

Trump says we've been getting screwed

But EVERYONE, EVERYWHERE is part of CAPITALISM, so everyone is trying to extract the most money possible, by definition.   It's not one country vs. another.   It's everyone for themselves.   Trump himself has certainly ripped some folks off, no?   So no wonder he sees it everywhere.

Second point.   We assume he's talking about the US Trade Deficit ("ripped off" is a weird expression... like a coupon ripped off a magazine, or a bandaid, or even a head off a body or something).   The trade deficit has 3 causes, according to Nigel Green, online journalist:   (1) Overconsumption, (2) Underinvestment in productivity, and (3) Fiscal policies that favor spending over saving.     So, in other words, not China.

Well, I'm not the President.   I hope he's right, and the pain is temporary, and the globe comes out stronger for it in the long-term.  They say he's an idiot, because he bankrupted a freaking casino, which everyone knows are money-machines.   But he's richer than me.   I hope he proves everyone wrong.   He's got professional consultants to advise him, like say the CIA, or ambassadors from the Vatican, or God knows what.

Take a geodonald.   play a Trump-et.   Create liquidity at the John.   Shit, I dunno.

today is fentanyl awareness day:

overdoses are rising? don't incarcerate, but ensure proactive treatment?  Quentin is ill from fentanyl!  I'm not much help.  Just say no?  No.   Drugs, bad.   Officially rename them drughs.   Medi-sin.  Harm-aceuticals.   That's all I got.  Let there be clean water and plentiful, cheap, delicious, nutritious, healthy, ethical meals for ALL!  Amen.  

I'm an internationalist.   I think there should be one currency, no borders, no militaries, and no nuclear weapons (unless we find threatening space aliens or something).   I think there should be a free flow of people, products, and ideas in a unified system (one planet over god, with liberty and global fairness for all?).   We're already one system, but the history and politics and languages/ cultures/ religions and identities (things like olympics and soccer) seem to obviate this -what seems to me- very sensible idea, that just makes the Reality more official.   I'm not sure I care that much, though, really.   I mean, if it was up to me.  Lots of leaders and governments is probably better, with democracies for granular constituencies, keeping everybody involved and happy.   A lot of people would be unhappy if the whole world forbade abortion, for example.    Not me.   But many.