The Bully in the China Shop

The Bully in the China shop

Trump is truly the bull in the china shop. Or should I say Trump is truly the bully in the china shop? Now if he would only impose a 1000 percent tariff on all things Chinese…..

Trump has declared war on the world. Trump says he will impose his magic 25% tariffs because they won’t buy our cars and impose a 25 percent tariff on Europe but nothing on Russia.. This shows the stupidity of the Europeans. Why impose a 10 percent tariff on American cars when they won’t fit on Europe’s narrow streets? When I was living in Germany, the biggest car I saw was a Camaro that barely could fit on the streets of Konstanz. Look for Europe to put big tariffs on Harleys, bourbon, agriculture and other American goods.

I wonder if the Europeans impose tariffs on European cars made in America? BMW exports 225,000 cars from its Spartanburg, South Carolina plant with a value of over $10 billion. The cars are exported to 115 countries, including Germany and the UK. Will Trump cut a deal with BMW, Mercedes and the other foreign companies with plants in the US? Look for carveouts.

Of course all this is stupid. Why didn’t Trump just say that he was going to impose reciprocal tariffs on all trading partners by a certain date unless they agreed to either the same tariff or no tariff at all? But then again, Trump is obsessed with the trade deficit and reciprocal tariffs do not address the deficit. But if we insisted that the rest of the world buy as many US goods as we buy from them, even if they could (which they can’t) they would all be crushed to death by all the stuff piled up on them. Think Viet Nam. What we need to do is to convince Trump that the trade deficit is actually an American export. More on that later.

The pro-Hamas mob at Columbia University is back at it. When Barnard, its sister college, expelled two students for disrupting a Jewish history class, around 100 Columbia and Barnard college students protested by occupying a Barnard campus building and sending one security guard to the hospital. Naturally, the students were wearing masks and keffiyehs. The students chanted their standard antisemitic slogans. Barnard college officials sat on their thumbs, did not have the protestors arrested and waited for them to leave the building. 

This nonsense has got to stop. The students say that “unmasking exposes them to greater risk of doxxing, violence, and disciplinary action.” Damn right. All students wearing masks should be expelled with no exceptions. All students disrupting campus life should be expelled with no exceptions. Those on student visas should be kicked out of the country. Quit coddling these spoiled tyrants. Of course, many of the faculty and administrators at Columbia and Barnard are more sympathetic to the protestors than with the Jewish students which may be a reason for the wimpy response. 

But Trump is coming to the rescue! Leo Terrell, one of many Fox commentators tabbed by Trump, heads a Justice Department task force charged with bringing “the full force of the federal government to bear in an effort to eradicate antisemitism in schools like Columbia and Barnard”. Is there anyone left at Fox? Terrell’s task force will visit at least 10 schools that have been soft on these protests. It is not certain what disciplinary actions will be taken. But this antisemitic harassment has got to stop. Maybe if Terrell recommended that the endowments of these schools be taxed or that all federal funds would be terminated, the protests would end immediately. I bet if the students were harassing trans students, that the universities would have been arresting and expelling. What is interesting is that Jews are overwhelmingly democrats with 79 percent voting for Kamala Harris. College professors and administrators are the most loyal democrat constituency with 92% supporting Harris. Yet these leftists are idly sitting by while a bunch of rowdy left wing socialists are harassing their fellow left wingers who happen to be Jewish. And Trump is riding to the rescue? I thought he was a Nazi? Go figure.

Speaking of “is anyone left at Fox?”, Trump selected Dan Bongino to be FBI deputy. That makes 21 Fox personalities tabbed so far. So Fox has announced it is hiring Trump’s people. Former DOGE co-chief Vivek Ramaswamy will have a show on Fox Nation. Fox is hiring Trump’s family members too. My other half who watches Fox when she is not watching Antiques Roadshow was looking a show hosted by Lara Trump. Who’s next? Melania?