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Cake day: July 18th, 2023

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  • Why does the mainstream media continue to buy into the lies and hypocrisies Trump continues to spew regarding trade with Canada ?

    Well, for some reason – whether it’s a reflexive trust in the system, or something more along the lines of it being difficult to get someone to understand something when their salary depends upon them not understanding it – the media can’t wrap their head around the idea that the President of the United States might be a sleazy, lying, dirty fink of a rat bastard.

    His other argument was the 200 billion dollar surplus in trade

    It’s worth highlighting here that Trump believes that not paying for goods and services is what smart business people do, and we can interpret his discussion around trade deficits in these terms. Trump is not setting his agenda here – he has people whispering in his ear who know how to pull his strings and push his buttons to their own ends – but he is giving us a window into his understanding of the world. And he believes that America paying for what it buys is beneath them. So, this is how he himself interprets arguments around trade.

    The media, again, chooses not to understand this, and instead abdicate their imagined duty to inform people of the truth, and pat themselves on the back for being megaphones for whoever’s in charge today. Doesn’t matter that they know that person has never successfully said something factually correct or not.