J.D. Vance Comes Home to the Marine Corps

posted by Kurt Schlichter at Townhall 

So, how was your No Kings day? Mine was the opposite of cringe, a powerful riposte to that festival of geezer, commie, and mutant onanism that sent a tingle down the collective leg of those who hate both America and all those struggling to make it great again. The Vice-President’s communication staff invited me to follow him around on October 18th for Townhall when he came to Camp Pendleton to celebrate the Marine Corps’ 250th anniversary. Instead of America’s worst—we should have held a counter-protest called “No Dinguses”—I watched America’s best mixing and mingling with America’s next president.

The Veep did not make any major news or announce any policy changes. He just doubled down on what the Trump administration is all about—greatness —and that meant interacting with great Americans. I don’t need to build up the Marine Corps’ collective ego. That’s like feeding J.B. Pritzker more to make him fatter; it’s hard to do, but they’re happy to try. But the fact is – as the Veep (a former lance corporal who is now getting salutes from four-stars) observed to the audience of about 15,000 troops and families – the Marine Corps fought the trends of wokeness and remains the Marine Corps. The rest of the Pentagon allowed itself to be degraded into a woke nightmare of bulging waistlines, perversions, incompetence, and politicization, while all the Marines want to do is kill America’s enemies. These are tough, mean little guys. Jesse Kelly aside, Marines are generally tiny and wiry. This gave me great hope for the future, because the future is going to involve killing bad people, and it’s nice to know we’ve got folks eager to do it.

A quick aside: Don’t take that as a diss on my beloved Army. The Marines are unparalleled door-kickers with amazing amphibious capabilities that they showed off to their famous alum on Camp Pendleton’s Red beach. Still, the Army remains the decisive land combat force because it’s so big and it just bludgeons the enemy to death. Think “Hulk smash.” But there’s something about the Marines and their instinctive skill at public relations. From the Vice President to the Secretary of War to a bunch of lesser dignitaries, it was nonstop hype about the naval infantry. If there’s one thing these guys have down, it’s self-esteem. Of course, they tend to back it up in battle, which makes it OK with me.

Watching the Vice-President work the crowd, including off-script banter and signing a bunch of the Devil Dogs’ covers thrown on stage, is watching a future master learning his art. Republicans, we’ve got somebody special in J.D. Vance. Now, I’ve known that for a long time. I’ve had the chance to talk to him and his wife, and, importantly, my wife had a chance to talk to him and his wife. My wife approves of them, and so do I. We both meet a lot of politicians; a lot of them are nice but unexceptional. Some are stiffs.

Not the Vances.

The thing about J.D. Vance is that he’s so resolutely normal, even when he says things that drive the elite crazy. He wears his famous background on his sleeve; the guy grew up in Appalachia in a troubled home, surrounded by drugs and poverty and all sorts of other tribulations. He joined the Marines, got a college degree, ended up at Yale Law School (which I do not hold against him), came out of nowhere to write a bestselling book, went to Silicon Valley, became a senator, and was picked by Donald Trump as his running mate days after they tried to murder 45/47. It’s no secret that a lot of Republicans didn’t want him. Well, the elites still don’t want him. That’s because J.D. Vance came from what they consider nothing and beat them all at their own game. He’s uppity, and that’s intolerable to the snobs and swells.

Vance’s strength is that he has tapped the magical power of not caring. This is because he knows the elites, having been invited to join them, and he is distinctly unimpressed with their credentials and pretensions, their airs and arrogance, and their total inability to competently or honestly run the institutions they have inherited as America’s cultural trust fund babies.

But he was comfortable with his Marines. He served in Iraq as a lance corporal. That he was enlisted is huge if you understand the very, very hierarchical nature of the Marines. It’s really an aristocratic organization, much more than the Army, where officers are not looked on as minor deities. If you’re a young Marine and you end up talking to a colonel or a major, something terrible has probably happened. If you’re a young Army soldier and you end up talking to a colonel or a major, it’s probably a Tuesday.

The Vice President easily navigated this chasm, going over the heads of the assembled brass to talk to the young, working people out there in that Marine audience. That’s key, because young, working people are the nation’s future; the crusty geezers and shiftless pierced weirdos who didn’t have to worry about getting time off from a job to attend one of the No Kings cringefests are not. The mutants won’t breed (there were lots of strollers at the Pendleton speech), and the geezers can’t.

J.D. Vance had a natural cadence and rhythm communicating with these young folks. Again, it’s not just that they were Marines, though it’s important that they were Marines. He was talking to young adults in a way that others don’t seem to after the murder of Charlie Kirk. He didn’t talk in jargon. He didn’t talk about abstract concepts. He went right at their interests. His only political comment was to label the shutdown, accurately, “the Democrat shutdown,” and the reason was that he needed to assure these young Marines that they were going to get paid. After all, they’re not making a lot of money. They miss a paycheck, and that’s serious stuff. He mentioned that President Trump was working to get them paid, and they appreciated it.

I’ve always liked this guy. I’ve always thought he was going to go far, not just because we’re both sons of Ohio, but because he’s something special. He’s developing into a retail politician with some serious chops. And, of course, he’s going to need them. He’s not Donald Trump, and, to his credit, he’s not trying to be. Donald Trump’s not going to be president in a little over three years from now, and J.D. Vance wants to be. I don’t know that for sure; no one told me that, but I’ve got eyes and I’m not an idiot. We all know that he is the current heir apparent, and this little trip was part of his training program for the eight years to follow Donald J Trump’s awesome reign – oh wait, king's reign don’t they? Oh, I don’t want to offend the geezers!

And he was smart to do it on that particular day. What a contrast. His opponents gathered to talk about how America sucks. At the same time, J.D. Vance spent his day with the men and women whose service demonstrates that the administration and the Republican Party are making America great again. I know whose side I’m on.

Podcast and entertainment thread for Oct 20

 

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Democrats Are Mad Kings

American  Thinker 

White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt really got under Democrats’ reptilian skin last week when she correctly noted, “The Democrat party’s main constituency is made up of Hamas terrorists, illegal aliens, and violent criminals.”   Botoxed and unnaturally preserved devil-worshipers from Nancy Pelosi’s generation haven’t been this worked up since President Lincoln freed their slaves.  House minority leader Hakeem Jeffries did his best Greta Thunberg impression by sinisterly glaring at television cameras and slinging “How dare you?” insults in Leavitt’s direction.  There’s nothing that Democrats despise more than a person willing to tell the truth. 

It will be interesting to see whether Democrats’ main constituent groups — illegal aliens, violent criminals, Antifa terrorists, rabid communists, and Islamic jihadists — show up for the vaunted “No Kings” protests being staged around the country on October 18.  Previous iterations of this loony leftist “primal scream” have mainly attracted geriatric women reliving their “free love” hippie days and cuckolded manservants carrying their wives’ purses.  

It’s strange seeing so many old white people gathered in one place as if they were part of some wandering nursing home whose handlers (the same ones who fill out residents’ mail-in ballots) replaced patients’ daily pill cups with adrenaline shots and spiked the early-dine pudding rations with geezer rage.  An impartial observer could be forgiven for assuming that the gates to these Potemkin protests include an exclusionary post: “To enter, you must have fond memories of President Roosevelt (Theodore or Franklin) and have skin so pasty-white that you are easily confused for a corpse.”  After two decades during which the Democrat party has run on an explicitly racist platform — We hate white people, and we are entitled to steal everything they have — I suppose it makes sense that Democrats still retain so much support from those old enough to remember the Confederacy.

The October 18 “No Kings” extravaganza has been billed as the Democrats’ glitziest event of the year.  Senate minority leader Chuck Schumer — who is reportedly desperate to stave off a primary challenge from the hammer and sickle brigades running his party — has refused to fund the federal government until Democrats’ cosplaying “revolutionaries” can partake in at least one id-fest that permits their assorted criminals to burn down businesses and trash city streets. 

However, there’s only so much mayhem the Matlock and Murder, She Wrote contingents can unleash when so many drooling participants must nap between protest chants and visits to the restroom.  Previous “No Kings” performances have had all the pizzazz of a last-minute casting call for zombie extras in The Walking Dead.  

If Chuck and Hakeem really want to make a statement, they’ll let the tens of millions of criminal illegal aliens go wild on the streets of America and ask New York City mayor-to-be Zohran Mamdani to release his jihadi hordes.  Nothing says, “We love America” and “We should run the government” like a bunch of foreigners and anarchists screaming, “We hate America!” and “We must burn America to the ground!”  Leave it to the Democrats to habitually take sides with America’s enemies.  

In anticipation of the Democrat party’s latest day of rage,  Los Angeles County has declared a “state of emergency” over Immigration and Customs Enforcement operations in the area, so that Democrat politicians can give illegal aliens “free” money.  That’s right, Democrat officials in California and other pro-crime death traps steal money from American citizens in the form of taxes so that they can pay illegal aliens to violate U.S. immigration laws.  

What do sane, rule-of-law jurisdictions call people who aid and abet criminal activity?  Correct again, they are called criminals!  But don’t tell Los Angeles!  Its criminal government identifies as a “sanctuary city”!  Just as bearded perverts identifying as “women” are allowed to use the same restrooms as little girls in Democrat-controlled “safe zones” for sexual predators, criminal illegal aliens identifying as “law-abiding, undocumented citizens” are allowed to invade Democrat-controlled “safe zones” for foreign nationals.  It’s so easy to justify outrageous things when you can fundamentally transform reality simply by renaming it!

I’ve just been handed a note from Silicon Valley’s censors and the European Union’s overseas word police.  Apparently, it is “racist” to describe the illegal arrival of tens of millions of foreign nationals as an “invasion.”  Such language implies that these uninvited foreigners are not welcome to break into the United States and sponge off the country’s depleted welfare programs.  Telling foreigners that they must respect a nation’s borders is only valid in Ukraine.  Everywhere else, it’s a textbook example of “hate.”  Nobody wants to be accused of “hate.”  As Charlie Kirk’s murderer amply demonstrated, leftists will kill anyone Democrats slander as “hateful.”

Ironically, the same Democrats who refuse to call the arrival of tens of millions of foreign nationals an “invasion” have no problem smearing federal law enforcement officers with that label.  Illinois governor “Jabba the Pritzker” (hat tip to James Howard Kunstler for that gem) has repeatedly complained that President Trump’s mobilization of National Guard troops to protect federal property and the lives of federal agents constitutes an “invasion.”  Jabba the Pritzker also insists that President Trump is Adolf Hitler reincarnated and that ICE agents are acting as his Nazi Gestapo.  

This is how far down the demented rabbit hole Democrats have dragged us.  A prominent Democrat politician seeking his party’s 2028 presidential nomination has no problem with rapists, murderers, narco-terrorists, human-smugglers, or sex-traffickers taking advantage of Democrats’ open borders policies to spread death and destruction across the United States.  All those vile creatures are welcome in Illinois, California, Oregon, Massachusetts, New York, and wherever else Democrat politicians turn human misery into political power and personal profit.  But if the president of the United States faithfully executes the duties of his office by preserving, protecting, and defending the Constitution and safeguarding the lives and properties of the citizens of the United States, then Democrats will accuse him of being a “Nazi” and “invading” their lawless states.

The public pouting sessions that Democrats call “No Kings” protests feature plenty of this obnoxious insanity.  ICE agents and other law enforcement officers are vilified as “slave-catchers,” “child-abusers,” and “violent thugs.”  However, by demonizing federal agents who enforce immigration laws, Democrats are actively defending violent transnational gangs whose members abuse women and children and sell them as slaves.  Only depraved Democrats could take sides with modern-day slavers and be so morally obtuse that they brag about supporting cartels.  Only those who have never put their lives on the line for another human being could defame those who do as “fascists.” 

How many women have to be murdered before anti-ICE rioters figure out that they are enabling evil on a continental scale?  How many children have to be raped before “No Kings” blowhards realize that the animals they defend profit by inflicting trauma on the most vulnerable?  Democrats have their slogans and their prefabricated signs.  Apparently, they abandoned principles long ago.

Adding to the hypocrisy of the Democrats’ “No Kings” street theater is the fact that leftist billionaires fund these “mostly peaceful” but often fiery riots.  American communists who have never had the guts to depart the United States for one of the many Marxist hellholes around the world carry their preprinted protest signs and scream obscenities at hardworking Americans who just wish to live their lives in peace.  Meanwhile, they never ask themselves why wealthy oligarchs pay for their “revolutions.”  Leftists are the least self-aware people on the planet.

Democrats’ “No Kings” demagoguery resembles “color revolutions” across the West.  Leftists believe that they are entitled to reject the will of the voters.  They wish to overthrow elected governments and rule instead.  Despite protests, they are mad kings.

Democrat Nazis

Townhall 

Is it “Scratch a Nazi and you’ll find a progressive,” or is it “Scratch a progressive and you’ll find a Nazi”? Does it really matter? Does heads or tails matter when the coins are being thrown at you? I don’t think so.

Democrats are showing their true colors, the way a 2-year-old shows their age the first time they’re told “no” in the toy aisle. If they don’t get their way, they try to take it – think Democrat Harvey Weinstein at a casting call, they will force their way on you.

Of course, for stupid and crazy to work, you have to convince people that things are genuinely horrible, whether they are or not. As the White House highlights good things in the economy, Democrats simply declare everything to be horrible. They leave out that they are the reason for all the horrible things.

“Housing costs are too high!” they scream. What they don’t mention is that they let 30 million illegal aliens into the country over the last few years; guess what that means to the housing market. It truly is amazing how Democratic voters don’t seem to understand the concept of supply and demand. It makes sense, I guess, they don’t supply anything anyone wants, so the concept of demand is a foreign as a shower.

In New York, these morons are on the verge of voting in a literal Nazi as their mayor. There isn’t much daylight between the policies of pre-war Hitler and Zohran Mamdani, as Hitler was a very well-known “progressive,” until he invaded his neighbors and history was rewritten…by progressives, then this tyrant of the left suddenly became a right-winger. It’s true, look it up.

After fumbling the opportunity to even just lie and say he thinks Hamas should disarm, which is part of the deal they agreed to in order to stop the war, Mamdani finally said those basic words on the debate stage last week. After that, he ran off the bathe in the aura of terrorist sympathizers to appease anyone he may have upset with his empty words, by “Cozying up to a radical imam with terror ties.”

Everything these people do in public is for show, and most of it is a lie. Every once in a while, it’s honest, if only by accident, and people should notice and be concerned.

There is no plane of existence where what these people advocate is anything but bad for the country. Evil people do not do deliberate good; they only come close by accident. And make no mistake, Democrats fall into only 2 categories: Evil and people too stupid or disinterested in what is happening to recognize evil.

That may be a bit harsh, but honesty can be that way.

There is not a Democrat who believes in anything but their own power, and they are willing to use anything and anyone they can to get more of it. They will canonize a junkie or career violent criminal if they’re useful to them, and ignore the slaughter of children if the only people for whom there is any chance of responsibility are their own political leaders or voters. It’s truly gross.

Every death they can exploit is a Reichstag Fire; an opportunity they have a readymade “solution” for. They always offer the same “solution” to a shooting, regardless of the specifics. They are a “solution” in search of a problem, always.

And every “solution” they offer requires you to either do something, buy something, or ban something completely. It is pretty much all they have to offer.

It’s the Nazi/Democrat playbook: they seek to ban everything they don’t want to mandate, and mandate everything they do not wish to ban.

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President Trump Extensive Interview with Maria Bartiromo

Fox News is presenting the Maria Bartiromo interview with President Trump in two segments, both below.

In the first segment President Trump discusses the Trump peace plan and ongoing issues with Ukraine, Gaza and Venezuela. WATCH:

In the second segment below, President Trump gives his remarks about the No Kings nonsense and the Democrat shutdown.

2020 “Stop the Steal” Lead Attorney Now a White House Special Govt Employee

Conservative  Treehouse 

One of the biggest problems, factually the biggest problem with revealing the 2020 election fraud, are the ramifications.

That said, the competence of the United States government, and indeed our constitutional republic itself, is weakened without a full public airing of the fraud.

The White House has hired Stop The Steal lawyer Kurt Olsen as a ‘Special Govt Employee.’ The Wall Street Journal (Rupert Murdoch) is going bananas:

(WSJ) – “Kurt Olsen, a lawyer who unsuccessfully pushed claims of voter fraud, has joined the administration as a “special government employee,” some of the people said. The appointment gives Olsen 130 days to work from within the White House without giving up any private business interests. He is talking directly with President Trump, the people said. 

Trump asked Olsen to join the administration to work on election issues important to him, a senior administration official said. Olsen started his job in the past month, some of the people said, and has told others he wants to examine election machines.

Olsen has begun asking intelligence agencies for information about the 2020 election, the officials said. Olsen has told others he also wants to weed out some government employees who he believes are disloyal to Trump. 

Representatives for the White House and Justice Department declined to comment, and Olsen didn’t respond to requests for comment.” (read more)

Trump Says He Will Use 'Schumer Shutdown' To Permanently Cut Programs

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On Fox News this morning, President Donald Trump ripped Democrat lawmakers who have kept the government shutdown for 19 days. He said that they have “Trump Derangement Syndrome." 

“We have a deal. We just want an extension. And the reason we want an extension is because you can’t make a deal with these people. They’re lunatics. They’re gone crazy. They’re crazed people. Trump derangement syndrome. There really is that disease. At first, I found it to be amusing. Now, I find there really is - they want $1.5 trillion for health care for illegal aliens. If we do that, it will jeopardize the health care of the citizens of our country. So we’re not going to do that.”

On Fox News this morning, President Donald Trump ripped Democrat lawmakers who have kept the government shutdown for 19 days. He said that they have “Trump Derangement Syndrome."

Trump said that Democratic lawmakers who shut down the federal government apparently forgot that he could cut programs during the shutdown.

"They're referring to me as a king. I'm not a king," Trump said in an Fox interview.  "They made one mistake. They didn't realize that [the Schumer Shutdown] gives me the right to cut programs... giveaways, welfare programs, etc., and we're doing that. We're cutting them permanently."

Trump’s administration said it will pause $11 billion in projects, Townhall reported. 

This is the third-longest government shutdown since 1981. Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-NY, has refused to reopen the government at least 10 times since Oct. 1. 

Instead of ending the shutdown so that federal employees can get paid and the 42 million people who rely on the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program to eat can expect those benefits to arrive next month, Democratic lawmakers broke a crown and grandstanded during a government shutdown that they could stop. 

U.S. House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-LA, called on Democratic lawmakers to reopen the government. 

Former Canadian NAFTA Trade Negotiator Starts Noticing Trump Doesn’t Intend to Keep USMCA

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In Canada they call the USMCA trade agreement “CUSMA” putting Canada first.  President Trump calls it the USMCA because that’s the order of sequence when the trade negotiations took place, the USA then came Mexico and much later, Canada.  However, Trudeau used his typical Alinsky gaslighting to pretend Canada was always participating; they were not, they came in at the end.

That said, the former NAFTA trade negotiator for Canada, John Weekes, has finally realized President Trump does not intend to renew or renegotiate the USMCA, he intends to dissolve it in favor of two bilateral free trade agreements; one with Mexico and one with Canada.

I’m not sure what finally, and I do mean FINALLY, triggered a Canadian to realize this, but perhaps they finally listened to President Trump telling Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney [IN MAY] he intends to end it. DUH!  WATCH:

The reality of the U.S-Canada economic relationship and the position of President Donald Trump is not that difficult to understand if you take all the disparate datapoints and quotes from Trump and put them into context.

During a White House meeting with Mark Carney, President Trump essentially told the Canadian Prime Minister why he was in no hurry to get to a deal with Canada.  The 35% tariffs on non-USMCA goods triggered August 1st because the main priority of Trump -looking toward Canada- is to dissolve the USMCA.

During the May 6th oval office meeting with Carney, President Trump was discussing the USMCA and said:  “As you know it terminates fairly shortly. It gets renegotiated fairly shortly.” … “This was a transitional deal, and we’ll see what happens, we’re going to start renegotiating that” … “I don’t know if it serves a purpose anymore.”  …. “And the biggest purpose it served was, we got rid of NAFTA.”

To understand why President Trump wants to dissolve the USMCA {SEE HERE}.  To understand the technical value of dissolving the USMCA {SEE HERE}.  It’s not a complicated economic analysis; it’s common sense.

Currently, approximately 60% of the traded goods and services between the U.S. and Canada are covered by the USMCA; the remaining 40% was hit by tariffs on August 1st at a 35% rate.

When the USMCA is renegotiated, predictably dissolved in favor of two bilateral trade agreements – one for Mexico and one for Canada, all of the U.S-Canada trade sectors will be part of the enlarged free trade negotiation.  As a result, there is absolutely no motive to engage in trade discussions now.

♦ President Trump’s position is essentially to talk about the details when the USMCA is dissolved; hence, the ambivalence.

The certainty the Canadians are looking for can be found easily if they stop pretending.

(1) U.S. tariffs against non-USMCA products from Canada went into effect on August 1st.  (2) As soon as the USMCA is reopened, it will be dissolved.  (3) After the USMCA dissolution, a bilateral free trade agreement between the USA and Canada will be negotiated.

Every current effort by Canada to change the nature of the trade system, between now and the reopening of the USMCA (to dissolve it), is futile.

Again, I’m not exactly sure why this reality is so challenging for the Canadian govt to understand this, but at least John Weekes is starting to find a clue.

This is where it becomes important to understand the core reason why Trump, Ross and Lighthizer (2017) did not structurally want to replace the NAFTA agreement with another trilateral trade deal. Mexico and Canada are completely different as it pertains to trade with the USA. President Trump would rather have two separate bilateral agreements; one for Mexico and one for Canada.

♦ Firstly, Canada is a NATO partner, Mexico is not.  As President Trump affirmed to Justin Trudeau during the meeting, it would be unfair of President Trump to discuss NATO funding with the European Union, while Canada is one of the worst offenders.  Trump is leveraging favorable trade terms and tariff relief with the EU member states, as a carrot to get them into compliance with the 2.0 to 2.5% spending requirement for their military.

If the NATO member states contribute more to their own defense, the U.S. can pull back spending and save Americans money.  However, Canada is currently 26th in NATO funding, spending only 1.37% of their GDP on defense (link).

Canada would have to spend at least another $15 billion/yr on their defense programs in order to reach 2.0%.  Justin Trudeau told President Trump that was an impossible goal given the nature of the Canadian political system, and the current size of their economy ($2.25 trillion).

♦ Secondly, over the last 40 years Canada has deindustrialized their economy, Mexico has not.  As the progressive political ideology of their politicians took control of Canada policy, the ‘climate change’ agenda and ‘green’ economy became their focus.  The dirty industrialized systems were not compliant with the goals of the Canadian policy makers.

The dirty mining sector (coal, coking coal, ore) no longer exists at scale to support self-sufficient manufacturing.  The dirty oil refineries do not exist to refine the crude oil they extract.  Large industrial heavy industry no longer exists at a scale needed to be self-sufficient.  Instead, Canada purchases forged and rolled steel component parts from overseas (mostly China).  Making the issue more challenging, Canada doesn’t even have enough people skilled to do the dirty jobs within the heavy manufacturing; they would need a national apprenticeship program.  Again, all points raised by Trudeau to explain why bilateral trade compliance was impossible.

♦ Thirdly, the trade between Canada/U. S and Mexico/U. S is entirely different.  The main imports from Canada are energy, lumber and raw materials. The main imports from Mexico are agriculture, cars and finished industrial goods.  Mexico refines its own oil; Canada ships their oil to the USA for refining.  There are obviously some similar products from Mexico and Canada, but for the most part there is a big difference.

♦ Forth, USA banks are allowed to operate in Mexico, but USA banks are not allowed to operate in Canada.  USA media organizations are allowed to broadcast in Mexico, but USA media organizations are regulated and not permitted to broadcast in Canada.  The Canadian government has strong regulations and restrictions on information and Intellectual Property.

All of these points of difference highlight why a trilateral trade agreement like NAFTA and the USMCA just don’t work out for the USA.

Additionally, if President Trump levies a tariff on Chinese imports, it hits Canada much harder than Mexico because Canada has deindustrialized and now imports from China to assemble into finished goods destined to the USA.  In a very direct way Canada is a passthrough for Chinese products.  Canada is now more of an assembly economy, not a dirty job manufacturing economy.

When Trudeau outlines the inability of Canada to agree to trade terms, simply because his country no longer has the capability of adhering to those trade terms, a frustrated President Trump says, “then become a state.”

There is no option to remain taking advantage of the USA on this level, and things are only getting worse.  Thus, the point of irreconcilable conflict is identified.

Because the Canadian government became so dependent on their role as an assembly economy, they enmeshed with China in a way that made them dependent.  The political issues of Chinese influence within Canada are a direct result of this dynamic. In fact, China was the big winner from the outcome of the recent election because all of their investments into Canada are grounded on retaining Liberal government dependency.

If Trump targets China with punitive tariffs, the Canadian economy will be collaterally damaged.  Canada will end up paying a tariff rate because they use cheap Chinese component parts in their finished goods.  Canada has structurally designed their economy to do this over multiple years.

Understanding the unique nature of the Canadian economic conundrum, the only way to address the issue is to break out the USMCA into two separate bilateral trade agreements.  One set of trade terms for Mexico that leverages border security, and one set of trade terms for Canada that leverages NATO security and border security.  The only substantive similarity between them will be in the auto and agriculture sector.

If you think the multinational corporations, political leftists and UniParty Republicans in the USA are strongly opposing Trump now, just wait until the Trump administration officially proposes the elimination of the trilateral North American trade agreement, USMCA.

According to the World Bank, the USA economy is $27.3 trillion.  Canada is $2.1 trillion.

Do the math!

Put your elbows up if you need to.