It used to be that nations could forge agreements with the United States and at least have some idea that the principles of the agreement would be honored. Businesses could make plans accordingly. With our current president, all that is out the window. You think you have a deal, but then his McDonalds is delivered in a Volvo and poof! the deal is toast.

It is simply not possible to make a deal with the guys currently in charge. You think you have an agreement, then our fearless leader has a soft poop and the deal is off. The rest of the world is coming to terms with this: Try to ignore crazy nuclear grandpa and hope he goes away. They will never again trust a nation that would elect someone like that.

But all is not lost. Here is how to regain the trust of the world:

1. Orange Julius Cesar, in chains, a gift to Iran. While there are many deserving candidates for this gift, recency bias and impending economic disaster push Iran to the front of the line.
2. Pete Hegseth to Central America in chains. I do not know which countries have the best claims for his blowing up fishing boats for propaganda points, so I left this general. Pete Hegseth is a war criminal.
3. Elon Musk to Africa in chains. Again, a general area, but as he came from there he needs to explain to the people there why he killed thousands if not millions by cutting off US Aid.
4. RFKjr to Wuhan in chains. The shit that guy’s got going on, he should actually be used to advance medical science.
5. All the insiders making millions off “prediction markets” using inside information about our capricious wars, in chains before US courts. They are ripping off their own citizenry, and are making strategic decisions about foreign powers and actual goddam wars with a profit motive. Strip them, and their families, of every asset.

I realize I have not properly addressed Europe’s newfound deep distrust. Maybe some of the generals and admirals carrying out Hegseth’s agenda. There’s plenty of war criminals to go around! Business will be booming in The Hague.

But that won’t stop the trade deal nonsense. The only way to get that trust back is for the courts and congress to SHOW A FUCKING SPINE. A nation can’t be negotiating with some guy, they are negotiating with an institution that has specific mechanisms in place to prevent some random asshole from unilaterally chucking a treaty out the window.

p47 imagines himself a king, but even if we let him to it HE IS BAD AT IT. He is the worst imaginable king!

Project 2025 has been stacking the Supreme Court for years now precisely to enable this bullshit. The white pointy hoods are off now; the people doing this know that it’s now or never. In November it is entirely possible that we will learn that the fascists have prevailed. At which point there is no deal with anyone anymore.

It is unfathomable why anyone would make a deal with us until they know who they are dealing with. And if it’s our current president, they know not to bother.

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Sweet!

Thanks!