Trump is Pimpsticking Americans

     I've asked this question at least once before and I have to ask it again:

     Where's the red line? Where's the fucking Rubicon? Does it even exist, anymore?

     Donald Trump threatening a 10% tariff on eight of our best allies, including the UK, unless they heel to and let him grab Greenland which would be, or should be, blatantly illegal. Congress has had no input whatsoever on Trump's power grab and imposing tariffs on virtually every nation on earth. It used to be that Congress and Congress alone (and, according to the Constitution, any revenue-generating bill has to originate in the House) controlled tariffs.

     But no one had taken Trump aside (at least not successfully) and explained to him how tariffs work, that raising them on foreign imports just means higher costs for American companies and consumers. Trump actually knows this. This was why, after his ridiculously high tariffs on China, Trump thought he could order Walmart to "eat the tariffs", which of course was ignored and maybe even privately ridiculed by Walmart executives.

     And the tariffs are going to increase to 25% by June 1st if the European Union still won't let him have Greenland, even though it's not their call. 

     But according to psycho morons like Stephen Miller, who are bound and determined to give their senile king whatever he wants, might makes right and we have every right to seize Greenland because Denmark is a smaller nation and is supposedly incapable of defending it.

     That's Gilded Age thinking. Because the aforementioned psycho morons like Miller and Trump seem to forget that NATO exists. And, as Greenland is a semi-autonomous territory of Denmark, if we try to take Greenland by force, the other 31 nations, because of Article 5, will have no choice but to defend it against the United States, which would essentially be the end of NATO. Geopolitics is always a very complex thing but that's what it boils down to.

     This is essentially why several NATO nations, including the Netherlands and Germany, are in Greenland right now. They're beginning the first stages of safeguarding the island.

      Trump's insistence on annexing Greenland, against its and Denmark's will, and that of every NATO country, is supposedly about "national security". But Greenland, the Kingdom of Denmark and NATO already said we could put as many bases as we want there. Security is not the issue. And invading Greenland with ground troops will result in the exact opposite of safeguarding our national security. We're good but fighting 31 nations, some of them having nuclear stockpiles, is ridiculous.

     Trump just wants to annex Greenland because of its untapped mineral resources just like he made no bones about invading Venezuela over its vast oil reserves. Our very stable genius is rapidly putting us in the position of being attacked by every nation in NATO, which, obviously, would be a first. 

     And, by using mob extortion methods to try to get his way, he's planning on making it harder for Americans to make ends meet. Because Trump doesn't care about you. Never did, never will. He plainly has imperialist ambitions and thinks he can invade, bomb, colonize or otherwise subjugate every nation that has something he wants.

     This is precisely how madmen think and it's past time we do something about him.